News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that John Waller, 41, of New Rochelle, N.Y., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to 80 months in prison and three years of supervised release for attacking a fellow inmate with a makeshift knife at the U.S. Penitentiary at Pollock, La. A federal jury found Waller guilty on Sept. 17, 2013 after a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced NORRIS WILLIS, 42, of Bayboro, North Carolina, to 123 months of imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release. WILLIS previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 280 grams or more of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - DEA Special Agent in-Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo, District of Arizona today announced that Michael Rocky Lane, 52, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2013 by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 180 months' imprisonment, followed by five years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ROBERT RIVERNIDER, 48, of Wellington, Fla., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Stephen Leon Williams, 62, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced on Dec. 18, 2013, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 90 months in federal prison. Williams was convicted for his participation in an oxycodone conspiracy centered in the Kingsport, Tenn., area of the Eastern District of Tennessee and for selling a firearm to an undercover agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Philip Chaohui HE, aka Philip Hope, who was residing in Oakland, California, at the time of his arrest, was sentenced yesterday, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve 36 months in federal prison for conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act and to Smuggle Goods...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO -- BURTON DOUGLAS MORRISS was sentenced to sixty months on tax evasion charges associated with his evasion of taxes on millions of dollars of income he earned between 2006 and 2009. According to his plea agreement, the tax liability Morriss attempted to evade in 2007 was $2,888,483. The total tax due and owing by Morriss for all tax years is $5,559,386.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO --A federal indictment was returned today naming Sheila Aubuchon as the defendant in an alleged scheme to misdirect funds held at Belgrade State Bank to her personal use. The indictment alleges that Aubuchon forged signatures, altered account numbers and evaded bank procedures in order...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore this week sentenced Vanessa Cooper (39, El Cajon, California), Canetha Johnson (43, El Cajon, California), and Raul Carbajal (23, Plant City, Florida) to 17, 14 and 15 years in federal prison, respectively, for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The BLM and US Forest Service are continuing to take comments on the Nevada and Northeastern California Sub-Regional Greater Sage-grouse Draft Land Use Plan Amendments and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DLUP/DEIS). A total of 209 people attended the recent workshops in California and Nevada that...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK- U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Dec. 19, 2013, Dylan A. Romero, 34, Bismarck, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland on a charge of possession of firearm by a convicted felon. Romero was found guilty by a federal jury on Sept. 6, 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the report issued by the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTION, KY - A Michigan man, who led a drug conspiracy that brought heroin into eastern Kentucky for distribution, was convicted by a federal jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Daniel Chase Kennedy, 27, a resident of Jefferson County, Oregon, appeared before U. S. District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken in Eugene yesterday and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. On July 10, 2013, Kennedy pled guilty to being an armed career criminal and admitted possessing shotguns and rifles he and two accomplices stole while burglarizing a Jefferson County home.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a toddler and streaming footage of the assault over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell yesterday sentenced Daniel M. Metz (54, Oviedo) to 30 months in federal prison for filing false returns and attempting to obstruct justice. He was also ordered to serve a 3-year term of supervision, following his release from prison, and to pay $112,995 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Albert Nedd (41) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Nedd pleaded guilty on Sept. 13, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- The United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Kevin Alphonzo Johnson was sentenced to twenty four months imprisonment today by United States District Court Judge Callie V. Granade, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of Title 18 USC...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - CLONE JEFFERSON OLIVER was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to defraud Alberici Constructors, Inc. by inflating invoices.
