News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Chief Executive Officer of International Metallurgical Company Sentenced to 57 Months for Conspiring to Export Specialty Metals to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Mark Wilson, age 30, of San Diego, California was sentenced to 97 months’ imprisonment on September 7, 2017 for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Portage, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 18 months in prison, and three years’ supervised release, on her conviction of conspiring to commit money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Carol Casto announced today that a new attorney position has opened in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia. The opening is for a 3-year term as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) assigned to the Violent Crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned indictments charging three individuals with fraud on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. It is alleged that the defendants provided false information under oath in order to conceal cash funds they controlled when petitioning the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for bankruptcy protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo a/k/a “Nelson Calderon," 40, of Portland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 121 months in prison and four years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." He pleaded guilty on Nov. 21, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “Determining Eligibility for Disability Benefits: Challenges Facing the Social Security Administration," on Wednesday, September 6 at 10:00...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney and Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division announced that a federal grand jury has returned a new indictment charging Roy G. Heilbron, 54, a cardiologist residing in Santa Fe, N.M., with false statements and obstruction charges. The new charges against Heilbron arise out of his alleged attempt to obstruct and impede proceedings in a pending criminal case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dracut man was arrested and indicted yesterday on sex trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Two Tacoma, Washington residents who were observed texting on an airplane about sexually molesting children have been indicted by a grand jury in Seattle, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. MICHAEL KELLAR, 56, and GAIL LYNN BURNWORTH, 50, were arrested last month after an alert passenger on a...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A New Mexico man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison for his methamphetamine trafficking and firearms convictions.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: On Aug. 25, 2017, Jennifer Zimdahl Galt, the U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia, and Dulamsuren Oyunkhorol, the Minister of Environment and Tourism of Mongolia, signed a Sister Park Arrangement between Denali National Park and Preserve and Otgontenger Strictly Protected Area in Zavkhan province, Mongolia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced a California man who swallowed plastic bags containing approximately 600 grams of heroin admitted today that he possessed the drug with intent to distribute it.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced today that local residents will have the opportunity to enroll in the popular TSA Pre✓® expedited screening program at two North Dakota airports in October.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H.- Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Celestino Nieves Vasquez, 42, was sentenced to serve 57 months in prison and Jose Hernandez Corchado, 40, was sentenced to serve 16 months in prison for their roles in distributing cocaine in Manchester, New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: MEDLEY, FL - Hometown Foods USA - a commercial bakery doing business as Bagelmania Inc. - faces $129,145 in proposed penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after investigators found workers at its Medley facility exposed to amputation, fire, and noise hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal jury has found a Memphis man guilty of trafficking narcotics, possession with intent to distribute and manufacture controlled substances and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the conviction today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Edward Mighty, 40, of Rochester, NY, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Mighty was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 280 grams or more of crack cocaine, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime,.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to federal prison today for a gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jermain Santell Hill, 38, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. In today’s hearing, he was sentenced to three years and a month in...
