News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Corey A. Coley, Sr. to seven years and three months in federal prison for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Coley was a Probation Officer for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $671,022.99, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Coley pleaded guilty on Jan. 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today released the 2014 Annual Statistical Update of Firearms Commerce in the United States.
By State Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Newark, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh:
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On April 23, 2014, Lance Robert Fries, 43, of Tucson, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 297 months imprisonment as a result of his guilty plea on Oct. 2, 2013, to two counts of production of child pornographyFries’ term of imprisonment will be followed by lifetime supervised release, with stringent sex offender conditions, including the condition that he register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Department will host a National Prescription Drug Take-Back kickoff event on Friday, April 25, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. at the Greenbrier County Courthouse located at 200 North Court Street in Lewisburg, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Defendant’s Brother Fatally Shot In Attempt To Rob Drug Dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, and Mark R.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: A seven-count indictment was filed charging an Elyria man with federal narcotics and firearms violations, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers are looking for ways to use "prescribed fire" to control a weed that is colonizing disturbed soils and overtaking western grazing land. When fully grown, the weed, called purple threeawn, has sharp prongs that make it undesirable to cattle. When cattle have no other choices and are forced to eat purple threeawn as a staple of their diet, they fail to thrive.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, April 24, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON, OHIO - A federal grand jury has indicted Eric A. Spicer, 44, of Beavercreek, Ohio, charging him with using fraudulent and forged documents to obtain a...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: PIPESTONE NATIONAL MONUMENT -PLANS PRESCRIBED BURN.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and William J. Bratton, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Front Range District announced that it is conducting a second call for nominations for five open positions on its Front Range Resource Advisory Council, which advises the BLM on public land issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brian T. Rapier, 34, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Phyllis Morris, age 38, was sentenced today in Beckley, West Virginia, by United States District Court Judge Irene C. Berger to one year in federal prison. Morris previously plead guilty in January of 2014, to distributing oxycodone...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Two individuals involved in a methamphetamine conspiracy were sentenced on Apr. 23, 2014, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Stacy T. Snyder, 44, of Mountain City, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 108 months in federal prison, to be followed by four years of supervised...
By State Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: YEREVAN, ARMENIA - Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democratic voice on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today visited Armenia as part of a delegation with Committee Chairman Ed Royce (CA), and Representatives David Cicilline (RI) and Lois Frankel (FL) to mark the 99th anniversary of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Savannah, GA - Henry Grady Wall, 35, and James Wesley Kelly, 55, both from Savannah, Georgia, were indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah earlier this month for allegedly conspiring to deal in counterfeit $50 bills. The indictment alleges that both Wall and Kelly knowingly used counterfeit notes to purchase money orders at a grocery store in Port Wentworth, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men and the South El Monte import-export company they used to move millions of dollars linked to illegal activity from the United States to Mexico were sentenced today for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. The three defendants received large sums of cash - often hidden in duffel bags - and they worked with “peso brokers" in Mexico to illegally convert the dollars to pesos.
