News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: On April 22, 2014, in federal court in Williamsport, Juan Bartolome Mora, age 34, a Mexican citizen arrested in Montour County in January 2014 and charged with illegal re-entry into the United States in February 2014 and held in custody for 102 days, was sentenced to time-served by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II today sentenced Jorge Luis Alomar-Baello (43, Orlando) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to import heroin. Judge Antoon previously sentenced Alomar’s co-defendant, Carla Michelle Alvarado (34, Kissimmee), to serve 2 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Thomas A. Visconte, 58, of Rochester, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with bank robbery. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced David Jesse Hotton, age 35, of Delmar, Maryland today to five years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: The Aviation Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will hold a hearing next week to examine the state of air service to small and rural U.S. communities and explore ways to provide continued and improved air services to these areas of the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: On April 21, 2014, in federal court in Williamsport, Chief U.S. District Judge Christopher C. Conner sentenced Frank C. Lowe, age 57, a Williamsport resident, to 26 months in prison. Lowe pled guilty in April 2013 to conspiracy and tax evasion. Lowe’s co-conspirator, Christopher Haupt, pled guilty last week to a conspiracy charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEPHEN WALSH, an investment manager and principal of WG Trading Company, LP (“WG Trading Company") and WG Trading Investors, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud. WALSH and his...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Jaycee L. Collier, age 29, of Aurora, Colorado, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on April 8, 2014 on charges of wire fraud and bribery of a public official in connection with a military recruiting program. Collier received a summons to appear in U.S. District Court in Denver today...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Denali National Park and Preserve is seeking applications from visual artists and writers for the 2015 Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program. This program provides the opportunity for professional artists and writers to use an historic roadside cabin as a base to explore the park and...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Armed Forces Day is Saturday May 17, 2014 and the solemn tune Taps will be sounded at the Andersonville National Cemetery at 11:00 a.m.This tribute to veterans is known as EchoTaps.Since 1949, the third Saturday in May has been designated as Armed Forces Day.This day honors all those who have served and continue to serve in uniform.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commended the U.S. Forest Service for administratively enacting language to limit fees on subsistence cabins in the Tongass National Forest that Murkowski originally proposed in the Alaska Subsistence Structure Protection Act of 2013 (S. 736).
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Lombardo Imports Inc., of Las Vegas, Nev., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A former controller of a trucking dealership was sentenced on Thursday to serve 60 months for more than $1.5 million in bank fraud and tax evasion, announced U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The 60 month sentence is the maximum prison term for the tax evasion charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II sentenced Jorge Luis Alomar-(43, Orlando) to 15...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Mexican National Manuel Rendon-Lucas, 19, has been ordered to federal prison and must pay nearly $3 million in restitution for his involvement in a deadly single vehicle accident that occurred in Brooks County in Novemeber 2013, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Rendon-Lucas pleaded guilty March 21, 2014, to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens causing serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on April 24, 2014, in Great Falls, BRANDON WAYNE GLOVER, 31, of Havre, was sentenced to a term of 80 months' imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris. Glover was sentenced following his January 9, 2014, guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, announces that on April 23, 2014, a federal Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Xavier Francisco Villanueva, a/k/a “X," Keith E. Romby II, a/k/a “P" and “PJ," Jose Carmona, a/k/a “Hood," and Ashley Nicole Barnett, a/k/a “Snow," with the sex trafficking of a minor. If convicted, each faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jonathan Hartwell Wolberg, 31, of Tucson, Az., was sentenced today to 33 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for intentionally causing damage to a protected computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed today charging a West Pittston resident with participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin during 2013 and early 2014.
