News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dennis J. Lovato, 29, a member and resident of Kewa Pueblo, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his second degree murder conviction. Lovato also was ordered to pay $1600.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Andrew Luger, United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, and Jack Riley, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced today that over 65 heroin distributors were arrested and/or charged with state and federal drug trafficking crimes throughout the State of Minnesota. The charges are part of a joint local, state and federal drug trafficking investigation, named “Operation Exile.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena on March 24, 2014 before U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon, CHRISTOPHER ROBERT LAWRENCE was sentenced to 180 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - James Seyfried, 55, from Palm Coast; Florida, Finlandia Pineda, 56, from Palm Coast, Florida; and Elaine Taylor, 61, from Alma, Georgia were sentenced yesterday to lengthy prison terms by Senior U. S. District Court Judge B. Avant Edenfield in a case that involved the burglary of a Rincon...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings on March 27, 2014 before U.S. District Judge Susan Watters, DEREK DEFOREST RHINEHART was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: POINT MUGU, Calif. - Effectively immediately, public visits to San Miguel Island (SMI), part of Channel Islands National Park (CINP), are temporarily suspended.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Abdel Jaber Obaid, age 31, of Harrisburg, was indicted yesterday and charged with Manufacturing Counterfeit Obligations of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Angelo Hill, 51, a former Virgin Islands Police Department sergeant, to 21 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: ST. PETER’S UNIVERSITY, JERSEY CITY, N.J.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce today that Terrance Brown, 41, of Miami, was convicted of Hobbs Act robbery, two counts of attempted Hobbs Act robbery, and three counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s latest health law data release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Johnson Augustus Powell, 54, of Huntsville, Ala., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release for copyright infringement. He was also ordered to pay $7,500 restitution to the Motion Picture Association of America.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: A 48-year-old Detroit man pleaded guilty today to criminal violations of the Clean Air Act, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Frank Lucas (R- OK), Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting information on the agency’s efforts to oversee states administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which is intended to provide benefits to those Americans most in need of energy assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Jose A. Padilla, 54, of Weslaco, has entered a plea of guilty for one count of receipt of a bribe, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Padilla was a former deputy commander at the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office and served under the leadership of former sheriff Guadalupe “Lupe" Trevino.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Pawan Kumar Jain, 61, of Las Cruces, N.M., with the unlawful dispensing of opioid pain medication and health care fraud charges, announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA’s El Paso Field Division and Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Michael Phillip Bourque, 57, originally of Cheverly, Md., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to an additional 200 months in prison and three years of supervised release for assaulting a correctional officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Ran Ponzi Scheme Involving Medical Insurance Investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Garcia, a former detective with the Las Cruces Police Department (LCPD) in Las Cruces, N.M., who focused on child abuse and sex crimes investigations, pleaded guilty today in federal court to a one count information charging Garcia with violating the civil rights of an LCPD student intern when he sexually abused her while on duty.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the various processes and costs associated with executing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), which requires all federal agencies to evaluate potential environmental effects of proposed projects. The report is entitled, "Little Information Exists on NEPA Analyses."
