News from April 2014
By DOT News Wire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Two of Five Modes Carried More U.S.-NAFTA Trade in February 2014 than in February 2013
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is composed of 3 young lava fields that spread across 500,000 acres of wild country on the Snake River Plain. Over the last 15,000 years, the lava erupted through a series of deep cracks, known collectively as the Great Rift.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man who has been living in Kansas City, Kan., was sentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. His sentence will be followed by 10 years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Martin E. Lyons (46, St. Petersburg) to 15 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. Lyons pleaded guilty on Dec. 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A long-time street gang member and associate of the Armenian Power has been convicted at trial for his role in supplying firearms to a leader of the organized crime group.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Freeport, Ill. man was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala on a federal charge relating to his preparation of fraudulent federal income tax returns. The defendant, JASON BOOTH, 32, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of $159,926.98 to the IRS, and $90,200.00 to the Iowa Department of Revenue, for a total of $250,126.98.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against John W. Ng, 58, of Albuquerque, N.M., charging him with hate crime offenses related to anti-Semitic threats he made against a Jewish woman who owns and operates the Nosh Jewish Delicatessen and Bakery in Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Daniel Nunez, 38, of Hidalgo, has been ordered to prison for life following his conviction for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and conspiracy to transport and attempt to transport monetary instruments to Mexico to promote drug trafficking, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Nunez pleaded guilty Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that William Smith, 34, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Jeffrey S. Walton, 48, of Ronceverte, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court in Beckley today to abusive sexual contact with a female federal inmate. Walton admitted that on one occasion in May or June of 2013, he touched the breasts...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: A federal felon who was still under court supervision when he committed an armed robbery of a marijuana distributor was sentenced today to 14 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. MELVIN CHARLES SLAUGHTER, 31, was on supervision for a bank fraud conviction in August 2013, when he ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial will run spring programs from Monday, April 28, through Thursday, May 22, 2014. A variety of programs are offered-all free.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Boris Aguayo-Matos, 35, of Jamestown, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and possession of a firearm in relation to drug trafficking activities, was sentenced to 121 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Tiki Simone Dennis to six years and two months in federal prison for tax fraud and aggravated identity theft. The court also ordered Dennis to pay $222,767.00 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. As part of her sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $222,767.00, which constitutes the proceeds from the tax fraud. Dennis pleaded guilty on January13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Eugene Velarde, 48, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on April 23, 2014, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 687 grams of methamphetamine. Velarde was arrested in Denver, Colorado. He received 120 months imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: An Ashland woman was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for her role in a conspiracy in which a cognitively disabled woman and her child were held against their will and forced to perform manual labor, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Antony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - On April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local law enforcement and the Drug Enforcement (DEA) will give the public its eighth opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: NIST rocks!. That's what a group of Dickinson College earth science students and their professor thought after visiting the Gaithersburg, Md., campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Tuesday, April 15. Jennifer Marshall, homeland security manager in the NIST Office of Special...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and sixteen Oversight Committee members asked Department of Justice Attorney General Eric Holder to produce documents and a Justice Department official for a transcribed interview to explain why his agency would...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls on April 24, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, TIFFANY G. BREMNER was sentenced to a term of.
