News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joshua Iben, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to federal child pornography charges. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a 40-year-old Kanawha County man who possessed sexually explicit images of children, including images that he produced himself, pleaded guilty today. Stephen Wayne Laton, Jr., pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston before...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: This Tuesday marks the 45th observance of Earth Day, an annual time to focus on the importance of taking good care of our planet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., woman was sentenced today to 79 months in prison for a credit card fraud and identity theft scheme in which she targeted elderly women, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: A Toledo woman was sentenced to three years in prison for interstate sex trafficking involving a minor, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - William E. Seevers, 48, appeared in U.S. District Court on Apr. 21, 2014, and pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder and one count of aggravated sexual abuse by force. Sentencing has been set for 2:00 p.m., Aug. 21, 2014, before the Honorable Thomas Varlan, U.S. District Court Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, April 21, 2014. Spring in West Virginia highlights one of the earth's greatest natural treasures, the biologically diverse southern Appalachian forest. This weekend's 11thannual New River Gorge Wildflower Weekend is a celebration of this amazing natural heritage, April 25 -27...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Fairbanks resident was sentenced in United States Magistrate’s Court in Fairbanks, for charges stemming from his involvement in the illegal taking of a moose and the subsequent shipping of the moose antlers out of Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 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 Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal...
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - After collecting more than 1,700 tons of expired, unwanted prescription medications over the past three-and-a-half years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and more than 4,200 national, tribal, and community law enforcement partners will hold another National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A 29-year old Mercer County man faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday, April 21, 2014, to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Eric A. Hitt, of Princeton, West Virginia entered a guilty plea before Senior United States District Court Judge David A. Faber in Bluefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 21, 2014, Ryan Ronald Mountain a.k.a. Ryan Ronald Edward Mountain 33, from Grand Forks, N.D. was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 15 years in prison for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, April 21, 2014.Spring in West Virginia highlights one of the earth's greatest natural treasures, the biologically diverse southern Appalachian forest. This weekend's 11thannual New River Gorge Wildflower Weekend is a celebration of this amazing natural heritage, April 25 -27...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -William S. Gazafi, age 44, of Lusby, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to six counts of sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced the conviction today of Walter Butler, Jr., aged 45, of Gainesville, Georgia, of bank robbery. Orlando Brock, aged 43, of Hartwell, Georgia was found guilty of armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Following a public comment period and review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has removed a cryptographic algorithm from its draft guidance on random number generators. Before implementing the change, NIST is requesting final public comments on the revised document, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators (NIST Special Publication 800-90A, Rev. 1).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen woman was charged today in connection with offering buttock and lip augmentation injections in exchange for money.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: Charleston Man Caught with Pills, Heroin, Crack, Guns and Ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2014
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, announce that OtterBox, a Colorado corporation headquartered in Fort Collins, has paid $4,300,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that OtterBox violated the False Claims Act and the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, by knowingly underpaying customs duties owed to the United States.
