News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for stealing more than $1 million worth of iPhones and iPads from Verizon Wireless by misappropriating corporate purchasing accounts and then diverting the shipments by bribing Federal Express drivers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Savannah, GA - Richard Adam Hall, 52, of Savannah, Georgia was indicted this week by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah on charges of producing child pornography, transporting a minor to engage in sexual activity, and other charges. In part, the indictment alleges that Hall, a former Chatham County...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Robert Coppack, of LaVerne, California, was charged today by information with interference with a flight crew, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The Information alleges that from May 13, 2014, to May 14, 2014, Coppack intimidated and assaulted flight crew members and flight attendants on a US Airways flight traveling from Philadelphia to London, and interfered with their duties and performance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Garlan R. Plumlee, 62, of Carlsbad, N.M., entered a guilty plea this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to distribution of a controlled substance analogue and money laundering. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Plumlee will be sentenced to two years of probation.
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 2 p.m., the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), will convene a hearing to examine current international efforts to combat the current Ebola outbreak. The hearing is entitled “Combating the Ebola Threat.".
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Abraham Lincoln High School will work with Independence National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - The alleged patriarch of a Gangster Disciples street gang faction that operates in the two square blocks surrounding the 4500 block of West Jackson Boulevard on the city’s west side was arrested today and charged, together with 34 other defendants, with possessing and distributing heroin and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, man convicted of Larceny was sentenced on July 30, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: On Wednesday, August 6, 2014, Channel Islands National Park rangers, Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office deputies, and U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special agents recovered an unidentified body on the beach at Simonton Cove on San Miguel Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 31-year-old Philadelphia man pleaded guilty today in Scranton before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to participating in a conspiracy that distributed heroin during November 2013 to January 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Two inmates at the Adams County Correctional Facility were sentenced in federal court today by Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III for rioting at the prison on May 20, 2012, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Keith Burns, 41, of Merrimack, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of attempted receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Montravis Luke, age 30, of Albany, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge W. Louis Sands to serve 12 years (144 months) in federal prison for conspiracy with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. The sentence was pronounced on August 7, 2014, in Albany, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Sentence Imposed In Addition To Nearly 22-year Federal Sentence On Firearm And Drug Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, August 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ELLIS THOMAS, also known as “L" and “Big Homey," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Jasmine Bradley, 28, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on August 5, 2014, on one count of use of unauthorized access devices to obtain $1,000 or more and aiding and abetting and on three counts of aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting. Bradley...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, has returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, announced the guilty plea of a Louisville felon, this week, in United States District Court, to charges of robbing three restaurants located in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and in one instance, to brandishing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Kailen Young, a resident of Allegheny County, was convicted of conspiring to distribute heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today charging Jose Nicolas Olivas Zazueta, 32, and Jorge Hernandez, 34, both of Fresno, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
