News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Marlon Lee Davis was sentenced to 84 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Christopher D. Nielsen. The sentence was handed down yesterday afternoon by the Honorable Beth Labson Freeman, U.S. District Judge, following the entry of Davis’s guilty plea on April 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On April 17, 2018, United States District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Sean Shorb, age 38, of Frederick, Maryland to 100 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for Hobbs Act robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Michigan man was sentenced to prison on drug charges in federal court in Beckley. Tremaine Dean Pool Jr., 23, of Romulus, a suburb of Detroit, was sentenced to 40 months in prison. Stuart praised the work of the Greenbrier Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today submitted comments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) supporting the rescinding of a 2014 rule created by the Obama-era Board that drastically changed union election policies and created ambush elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 22-year-old woman from Guadalajara, Mexico, has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of importing methamphetamine into the country, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Yezel Eunice Nevarez-Martell pleaded guilty Aug. 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jerry Lynn Gragg Jr., 41, a former police officer with the Savanna Police Department in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, was sentenced today in federal court in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to 100 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release. Gragg previously pleaded guilty to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former executive director of a Newark-based childcare and community program and a partner in a political fundraising and consulting company was sentenced today to 38 months in prison for wire fraud and tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Investigates Crash That Killed Three on Navajo Nation.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: An important part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management’s (LM) mission is to partner with tribal communities within the Navajo Nation. LM participated in “STEM-sation Day" at Shiprock High School in New Mexico on March 14, 2018, to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) studies and careers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Asbury Park, New Jersey, Defendant Sentenced As Part of ‘Operation Grand Champion’.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, WV -- Mike Blankenship was found guilty after a two day jury trial, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Mike Blankenship, 54, of Hanover, West Virginia, was convicted of two felony Clean Water Act violations and faces a total sentence of up to six years of incarceration, a $500,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Tommy Ramirez, 29, of the Dominican Republic and Ramon Clavel, 55, of Haiti, plead guilty today in District Court before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez, to possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Fany Madrigal-Lopez, 45, of Peoria, Ariz., pleaded guilty to the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances. A conviction for the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death carries a minimum-mandatory sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell sentenced Harold Halman, II, 58, and Alexander Schaap, 62, to 36 and 30 months in prison, respectively. Both must serve 3 years of supervised release following their prison sentences. The Court also ordered them to pay $4.5 million in restitution. Craighton Boates, 44, New River, Ariz., was also sentenced to 5 years’ probation.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans Co-chair and Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has a proven record of spearheading legislation to bolster retirement savings and tackle the issues that have plagued the nation’s multiemployer pension plans. In addition to...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has approved routes for segments of the Gateway West electric transmission line project on public lands in southwestern Idaho, connecting previously authorized routes in southern Wyoming and eastern Idaho. The project will improve the nation’s energy infrastructure and boost the economy in the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three men from the southwest Kansas area were convicted today on charges of conspiring to detonate a bomb at an apartment complex in Garden City where Muslim immigrants lived, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division John Gore;...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Leon Russell, 36, of Castleton was sentenced to five years imprisonment by Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford in U.S. District Court in Rutland. Judge Crawford also sentenced Russell to three years supervised release, which is a period of supervision by the U.S. Probation Office, which will begin upon Russell’s release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the arrest of DANIEL JONES and the unsealing of a Complaint charging him with distributing the heroin that resulted in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On April 17, 2018, United States District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Sean Shorb, age 38, of Frederick, Maryland to 100 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for Hobbs Act robbery.
