News published on Federal Newswire in April 2014

News from April 2014


Dickinson Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery

News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 7, 2014, Rendell Charles Hardy, 41, of Dickinson, N.D., pleaded guilty to bank robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson.


News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Federal Jury Convicts Pittsford Father and Son of Multiple Fraud Charges

News Release: Rochester, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a jury has convicted Michael C. Kaufman and his son, Richard A. Kaufman, both of Pittsford, N.Y., of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud and loan fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000 or both.


Multimillion Dollar Cocaine Conspiracy Results In Significant Sentence

News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jose Gomez-Ramirez, 32, of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been ordered to prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Gomez-Ramirez pleaded guilty in May 2013.


St. Albans Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Role In Marijuana Conspiracy

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Richard Hughes, 54, of St. Albans, W. Va. was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Hughes previously pleaded guilty in January of 2014 to conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Hughes admitted...


News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jose Trevino Gallegos, aka Joe T. Gallegos, age 48, and Erin Kathleen Honeycutt, aka Erin Kathleen Scott, age 34, both of Yakima, Washington, were sentenced for possession with intent to distribute...


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, April 7, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On April 3, 2014, Ty W. Dusch, 50, of DuQuoin, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced...


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to 10 months imprisonment to be followed by 15 years supervised release on his conviction of failure to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - STEPHANY DENLER MORENO, 31, from Choctaw, pled guilty today before United States District Court Judge Robin Cauthron to embezzling money from credit union member accounts and to making false statements in the records of a credit union, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.


Detroit Man Pleads Guilty To Heroin Distribution In Huntington

News Release: DRUGS, GUN AND SCALES SEIZED FROM HUNTINGTON RESIDENCE.


News Release: A man who possessed child pornography was sentenced April 4, 2014, to over nine years in federal prison.


Fairmont Residents Sentenced On Meth Charges

News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.


News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have pinpointed the location of a gene in a little-known ancient grass that could help save one of the world's most important cereal crops from an unrelenting fungus.


Chairman Menendez Floor Speech on Cuba

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement as prepared for delivery on Cuba.


Chairman Royce Applauds House Passage of Vital Taiwan Legislation

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed with overwhelming bipartisan support H.R. 3470, the Taiwan Relations Act Affirmation and Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2014, introduced by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.


News Release: PHOENIX - On April 7, 2014, Daniel David Rigmaiden, 34, formerly of Santa Clara, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbellto 68 months in custody (time served) and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service during a three-year term of supervised release. Restitution of over...


News Release: ST. GEORGE - Troy James Knapp, age 46, charged in a federal indictment in October with assaulting a federal officer and two violations of federal firearms laws, pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in federal court in St. George to use, carry and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.


News Release: ERIE, Pa - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, on the Senate Floor following the publication of reports by the AFL-CIO and Colombia’s National Union School evaluating the Colombian Labor Action.


News Release: Two Defendants Still Await Sentencing, and One Remains at Large.