News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Brian Kirkpatrick, 46, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today in the United States District Court in Boise to nine months in prison for Theft of Government Property, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also sentenced Kirkpatrick to serve three years of supervised...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Everglades National Park has reopened areas closed to protect the Frank Key Roseate Spoonbill colony during nesting season.The channel running along the west end of Frank Key, and the Carl Ross Key campsite, have been reopened to public access.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - GLENN RICHARD UNGER, 62, of Ogdensburg, New York, was sentenced to 97 months imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy, and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution, announced Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, and Kathryn Keneally...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Fernando Figueroa, 39, of Fresno, to 12 years and seven months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney, Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Figueroa is a previously convicted felon and was sentenced under the guidelines of the Armed Career Criminal Act.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 21, 2014 - As part of the Obama Administration's new "Made in Rural America" export and investment initiative, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the creation of a new investment fund that will help propel the growth of small businesses across rural America. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - A Huntington felon was sentenced today in federal court to four years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal firearm possession charge, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Jerry T. Kinney, 29, pleaded guilty in January of 2014 to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. United States District Court Chief Judge Robert C. Chambers handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Columbus man caught with oxycodone and heroin during an August 2013 traffic stop was sentenced to two and half years in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Antoine Walker, 27, pleaded guilty in January of 2014 to conspiracy to distribute heroin and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: APR 21 - (SAN DIEGO) - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) would like to announce that the 8th National Prescription Take Back Day will be held on April 26, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today the conviction of a New Jersey man on federal firearms charges. Dennis N. Van Houten, 28, Point Jervis, NJ, was convicted at a bench trial in front of U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for illegal possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Salvatore Lopiccolo, age 35 of Newport News Va., pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Distribute Analogues, Cocaine, Cocaine Base, Methylone, Marijuana, Psilocybin and drug paraphernalia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Brian Wyer, 39, a native of Ohio, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to charges of identity theft. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered that Wyer be detained pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― Ten Chicago and area defendants were charged in separate federal criminal cases with stealing a total of more than $1.27 million from the federal government by fraudulently obtaining Social Security benefits. Six of the defendants allegedly engaged in the fraud by using false identities. These...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is interested in obtaining copies of historic photographs of the people, places and events that occurred in the Big South Fork area prior to the park's establishment. The park museum collection contains over 300 oral histories of local people, and...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on the BLM Colorado White-Nose Syndrome Adaptive Management Strategy and Environmental Assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Daniel C. Alexander...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Marikevies McNichols (29, Naples) to 12 years and 10 months in federal prison for an armed bank robbery of the Florida Community Bank located at 5240 Golden Gate Parkway, in Naples, Florida, on Nov. 28, 2012. McNichols’ co-defendant...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who pleaded guilty in July 2013 to his role as a leader of a marijuana distribution conspiracy operating in north Texas was sentenced this morning in federal court in Dallas. Sylvespa Eugene Adams, aka “Sylvesta Adams, Pa and Paw," 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 210 months (17.5 years) in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Apr. 17, 2014, Frank Zimmerman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a one-count Information charging him with wilfully and knowingly embezzling over $1000 from the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL"), in the form of overpayment of unemployment benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two individuals from Chugiak, Alaska, and a third from Anchorage, Alaska, have been charged in two separate indictments with multiple counts of passing counterfeit money. Two of the defendants are also charged with conspiring to make and pass counterfeit money.
