News from May 2018
By USDA Newswire | May 25, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2018
Release: Substance of the Specific Instance. IUF, a global union federation, submitted a Specific Instance to the U.S. NCP on March 24, 2017 alleging conduct inconsistent with Chapter II, General Policies, Chapter IV, Human Rights, and Chapter V, Employment and Industrial Relations, of the conduct by the independent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On May 25, 2018, Miguel Ochoa-Ruiz, 39, of Concord, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Frank R. Zapata to 48 months’ (4 years) imprisonment. Ochoa-Ruiz had been previously been found guilty following a trial of smuggling goods from the United States and conspiracy. Ochoa-Ruiz’s...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury has convicted an international businessman and his wife of international parental kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI. The jury deliberated for more than two days following a 10-day jury trial before convicting Carlos Otavio Guimaraes, 67, and Jemima Guimaraes, 66.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of an Unregistered Firearm was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that WILLIAM B. “BART" HUNGERFORD, JR., age 57, and TIMOTHY O. MILBRATH, age 62, both residents of Maryland, were charged today in an eight-count indictment alleging violations of federal law in connection with a scheme to defraud immigrants who sought to invest money in job-creating companies in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2018
Release: BALTIMORE - You come to an airport checkpoint hoping to catch your flight on time and arrive at your destination safely. Seems simple enough, but sometimes something you weren’t expecting comes up at the checkpoint and it slows you down and perhaps raises your anxiety.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that James Markus Harries, a/k/a “James Harris," 33, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve 110 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. Harries previously pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2018, to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced a federal indictment charging RAYMOND ANTHONY POOLE, 43, with multiple counts of heroin distribution.POOLE made his initial appearance on May 23, 2018, before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Delaware attorney who spent nearly a decade helping clients collect hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal payday loans was sentenced Friday to eight years in federal prison, fined $50,000 and ordered to forfeit more than $356,000 in criminal proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Accessory to Second Degree Murder was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - A Honduran woman who was in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) died early Friday at the Lovelace Medical Center (LMC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. An autopsy is pending to determine her cause of death.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Dustin Allen Hughes, 26, of Cutler Bay, Florida, with four counts of obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs through threatening the use of a dangerous device and explosive, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 247(a)(2) and (d)(3), and four counts of making threats by telephone, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, 844(e).
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information on a Second Bank Robbery in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced MARVIN EARL BLANKS, JR., 33, of Lumberton, North Carolina, to 84 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: For Public Corruption Charges. HAMMOND - Mary Elgin, 73, of Gary, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen to 12 months and 1 day in prison and ordered to pay $21,311 in restitution, announced U. S. Attorney Kirsch. Elgin entered a plea of guilty to 2 counts of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Steel A. Davis, 45, of Chico, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 33 months in prison for a scheme to obtain bonuses for referring individuals to enlist in the California National Guard, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Secretary Acosta, Secretary Nielsen, Secretary Perdue and Secretary Pompeo (Washington, D.C., May 24, 2018) — When President Trump addressed the American Farm Bureau Federation in January of this year, he reminded the audience that his commitment to our farmers has been clear since the day his Administration ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: A Department of Justice official released the following statement at the conclusion of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' meetings with Croatian Interior Minister Davor Božinović and Justice Minister Dražen Bošnjaković: "Attorney General Sessions had productive meetings with Interior Minister Božinović ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. (Pfizer), based in New York, NY, has agreed to pay $23.85 million to resolve claims that it used a foundation as a conduit to pay the copays of Medicare patients taking three Pfizer drugs, in violation of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. ...
