News published on Federal Newswire in November 2013

News from November 2013


British Actor Sentenced To 25 Years In Federal Prison For Production Of Child Pornography Over The Internet

News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell yesterday sentenced John David Baker (30, resident of Celebration, Florida; citizen of the United Kingdom) to 25 years in prison for using children to produce child pornography over the Internet. He was also ordered to serve a...


Cheyenne Man Convicted For Attempted Online Enticement Of A Minor

News Release: U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that Cheyenne resident David Faust has been convicted in federal court. A jury found Faust guilty of attempted online enticement of a minor for sexual purposes after a two-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court in Cheyenne. Faust is scheduled to...


News Release: WASHINGTON - Jonathan Caine, 20, of Nashville, Tenn., pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for making racially motivated threats to an African-American assistant football coach at a local high school, the Justice Department announced.


BLM winter closures begin Dec. 1 in Eagle, Garfield, Pitkin counties Transfer Trail gate to be closed Nov. 25

News Release: SILT, Colo. - Annual winter closures to motorized vehicles will go into effect Dec. 1 on certain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado River Valley Field Office to protect critical big game winter range and prevent road damage.


News Release: Agreements Includes 20-Year Exclusion from Federal Health Care Programs and Over $1.6 Million in Criminal Restitution and False Claims Act Damages.


Buffalo Woman Sentenced on Drug Charges

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tracy D. Anderson, 41, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of attempting to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, cocaine, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J, Arcara.


Illegal Alien In Court For Conspiring To Produce False ID

News Release: Boston - A Dominican man was in court today for his alleged involvement in the identity theft and public corruption investigation related the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.


Week In Review – Hammond

News Release: Schickell Best, 25, of Gary, Indiana, was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.This charge was filed as the result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Gary Police Department.This case has been assigned to and will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Thomas McGrath.


Bullhead Man Indicted On Assault Charges

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.



Charenton Man Pleads Guilty To Assault On Woman And Chitimacha Tribal Police Officer

News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that David Frederick, 38, of Charenton, La., pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haik, to assaulting a woman and a Chitimacha tribal police officer.


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Nov. 22, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, STEVEN C. MUNSON, a 61-year-old resident of Bozeman, pled guilty to theft from an employee benefit plan. Sentencing has been set for March 24, 2014. He is currently released on special conditions.


Marlborough Resident Charged with Armed Robbery of South Windsor Pharmacy

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID HANEY, 52, of Marlborough, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with the armed robbery of prescription narcotics from a South Windsor CVS store in September.


Albuquerque Man Facing Federal Child Pornography Charges

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joshua Iben, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a not guilty plea in federal court this morning on a criminal complaint charging him with distribution, receipt and possession of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Iben will remain in federal custody pending trial.


Forty-Fifth Defendant In Operation Garlic Press Sentenced

News Release: SAN JOSE - Zanaida Perales, one of 45 defendants charged federally in Operation Garlic Press, a multi-agency law enforcement initiative that was conducted in Gilroy, California in October 2011, was sentenced yesterday in federal court, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.


NOAA’s stunning Science On a Sphere® now in 100 locations worldwide

News Release: Science On a Sphere®(SOS) is seen by 33 million people annually in 15 countries, 27 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and American Samoa. Using computers and video projectors, the system displays planetary data on an opaque carbon fiber sphere, and presenters can draw from more than 400 annotated datasets to highlight weather observations, climate models, ocean acidification plus the latest solar system imagery.


News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former Wichita area physician who was serving time on supervised release for a drug conviction has been convicted on federal firearm and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.


Women’s Rights National Historical Park to Show “Freedom Riders” in Winter Film Festival

News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Freedom Riders on Friday, December 6, and Saturday, December 7, 2013.


News Release: Start your holiday season with a visit to an 1880’s homestead. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument celebrates the holiday season with an open house at the Hornbek Homestead on Saturday, December 7, from 10 am until 3 pm. Staff and volunteers dressed in period costumes will serve refreshments and...


WILLOW BEACH ROAD REOPENS AFTER FLOOD DAMAGE

News Release: WILLOW BEACH ROAD REOPENS AFTER FLOOD DAMAGE.