News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, two high-ranking leaders of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization (OMO) pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the murder of Hells Angel Anthony Benesh in 2006 announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Michael O’Neill, 47, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a destructive device before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Richard W. Murphy announced that Kourtney Williams, 27, of Lewiston, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 184 months in prison and five years of supervised release for interstate robbery conspiracy and using a firearm during a crime of violence. The defendant was convicted following a jury trial on Sept. 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Five alleged members and associates of the Black Mob Gangstas/Donald Gee Family (BMG/DGF), a set of the Bloods street gang, have been indicted in a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Raleigh, North Carolina, for various gang-related crimes, including conspiracy to participate...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: National Prescription Opioid and Heroin Awareness Week Is September 17-23.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced approximately $36 million in federally-funded financial assistance to advance carbon capture technologies. Under the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office Of Fossil Energy (FE), the Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the owner of a Grandview, Mo., business destroyed in an explosion earlier this year is among two men who have been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally manufacturing and dealing in explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: After pleading guilty to several charges, a man was sentenced to imprisonment and supervised probation during a recent court hearing. Nathan D. Goodman, age 36, is also banned from Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Clifford B. Gandy Jr., 26, of Pensacola, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison after an October 2016 jury conviction of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
Release: SALISBURY, Md. -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed the latest checkpoint screening technology equipment at Salisbury-Ocean City-Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CRAIG JAMES, age 39, of Houston, was sentenced yesterday after having previously pled guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride and twenty-eight grams or more of cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Moundsville, West Virginia man has admitted to a drug distribution charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former clerk of the Orange County Superior Court was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme in which he was paid approximately $420,000 dollars in bribes to “fix" criminal cases and traffic offenses on terms favorable to hundreds of defendants without the knowledge of prosecutors or judges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELENA ILIZAROV, 45, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for using an identity theft victim’s personal identifying information to submit fraudulent bills to private insurance companies offering dental insurance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Norma Gold, 57, of Eldred, PA, pleaded guilty to false entries in federal credit union reports before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, and a fine of $1,000,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Salvadoran gang member with the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, who was wanted for his affiliation with a terrorist organization, was deported Friday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: MOBILE, ALABAMA-Richard W. Moore was sworn in today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Kristi K. Dubose as the new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Mumbai, India, made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh this afternoon to face charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to misbrand and smuggle drugs, conspiracy to import Schedule IV controlled substances and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Sept. 7, 2017, the Bureau of Reclamation submitted a request to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to modify the implementation of the 2008 Biological Opinion on the Coordinated Long-Term Operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project under Section 7 of the Endangered...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Two men, Calvin Terrell Stafford, age 23, and Napoleon Williams, age 23, were ordered held without bond today by U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen M. Tafoya for firearm related crimes, the United States Attorney’s Office, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), the Springfield...
