News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: - Street Value of Approximately $210,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Apr. 17, 2014, Lucas Jordan Conerly, 31, of Blountville, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, to serve 10 years in prison. Conerly pleaded guilty in December 2013 to a federal indictment charging him with using a means of interstate commerce to entice a child for illegal sexual activity. Upon his release from prison, Conerly will be subject to a life term of supervised release with special conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Wyoming Woman Charged with First Degree.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Roberto Tapia, 55, to 70 months in prison for using the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) as a criminal enterprise to engage in illegal drug trafficking activities, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Silvestre Barrera-Villegas, a member of drug trafficking conspiracy originating out Starr County, has been ordered to federal prison for nearly 10 years, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Barrera-Villegas, 52, of Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, pleaded guilty Jan. 29, 2014, to his role in smuggling more than 8,000 kilograms of marijuana in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Hao Yang, age 25, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, today to 21 months in prison for conspiring to traffic in counterfeit goods and counterfeit military goods. Judge Motz also entered an order that Yang forfeit five bank accounts worth over $59,000, a 2010 Acura purchased with proceeds of the crime, and counterfeit computer software, DVDs, sports jerseys and other items valued at approximately $280,720.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - In a major enforcement operation starting in the pre-dawn hours this morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its law enforcement partners arrested dozens of individuals facing charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin in Minnesota. Some of the individuals connected...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Belle man who possessed 81 firearms at his Simmons Creek Road residence pleaded guilty today to a federal firearm indictment, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Dorsey Woolwine, Jr., 63, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Elbert.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Jean Paul Alvarado Sold Fatal Heroin In 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On April 17, 2014, Isrrael Anthony Santiago, Jr., age 25, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 46 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: FBI Says Luis de la Garza was the “Mesh Mask Bandit".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: TORREY LEDELL DAVIS, age 42, most recently from Metairie, Louisiana was charged today in a three-count Indictment for offenses related to his involvement in the sex trafficking of a minor from the Jackson, Mississippi-area into the New Orleans area for the purposes of that minor engaging in prostitution, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Innovations at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are bringing researchers one step closer to developing "green" biofuel production systems farmers can use to meet on-farm energy needs, or to produce renewable fuels for commercial markets. These findings by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists Charles Mullen and Akwasi Boateng promote the USDA priority of finding new bioenergy sources. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, Sant Singh Chatwal pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Federal Election Campaign Act (the “Election Act") by making more than $180,000 in federal campaign donations to three candidates1 through straw donors who were reimbursed, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - David J. Hickton, United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, today announced that he has convened a group to develop and implement solutions to Western Pennsylvania’s opiate overdose epidemic.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Fort Vancouver NHS Selected for Teacher Ranger Teacher Professional Development Opportunity; Seeks Applicants for Summer 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Tina Marie Richmond, age 41, of Beckley, West Virginia was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for obtaining oxycodone by fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), today announced that Slawomir Soborski was extradited from Estonia where he had been arrested for conspiracy to import...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Ware man pleaded guilty today to defrauding the Social Security Administration of more than $50,000.
