Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)– TIMOTHY J. FREELAND, age 23, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, was sentenced Friday to 97 months in the Bureau of Prisons, 10 years of supervised release, a $750 fine, and a $100 special assessment for possession of child pornography, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen[Read More…]

Phoenix, AZ–(ENEWSPF)–February 4, 2011.  First-year member of the state House of Representatives, Republican John Fillmore (Apache Junction) introduced legislation this week to ‘defelonize’ Arizona’s marijuana possession penalties. House Bill 2228 amends state law so that the adult possession of up to two ounces of marijuana is reduced from a potential[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–February 3, 2011. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and Illinois State Police (ISP) officials today launched the You Drink & Drive. You Lose campaign and announced their efforts to boost enforcement over Super Bowl weekend. As part of the mobilization, nearly 100 local police departments and county sheriff offices[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2011.  An immigration judge in Detroit has ordered John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Mich., removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied L’viv, Ukraine,[Read More…]

Connecticut–(ENEWSPF)– David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ORLANDO CORTEZ JOHNSON, also known as “Rolando Thompson” and “Orland Johnson,” 37, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment,[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—February 1, 2011.  Colleen R. LaRose, aka “Jihad Jane,” 47, pleaded guilty today to all counts of a superseding indictment charging her with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements and attempted identity theft.   LaRose faces maximum potential sentence[Read More…]

Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2011.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois marketing firm alleging it sold to businesses “lead lists” of potential customers that it fraudulently claimed were verified and screened. Madigan’s lawsuit, filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court, charges that Ronnie Henderson, of Granite City,[Read More…]

New York–(ENEWSPF)– PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JANICE FEDARCYK, the Assistant Director-inCharge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") and EDMUND HARTNETT, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department, announced that DAVON YOUNG, a/k/a "Burners," THOMAS[Read More…]

Washington State–(ENEWSPF)– ROBERT D. SPRAGUE, 62, of Ferndale, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for possession of child pornography. SPRAGUE was previously convicted in Whatcom County Superior Court of two counts of child molestation (1994) and one[Read More…]