News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor the election on August 7, 2014, in Shelby County, Tenn., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting rights statutes. The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Shon Tay Dessart (age: 46) of Reedsville, Wisconsin was sentenced in federal court to one year in prison after being convicted in June following a jury trial of violating the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), and Senate Foreign Relations Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) met with President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the death of a U.S. army general in Afghanistan...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. A Wichita man pleaded guilty Tuesday to bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christina Thompson, 33, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 15 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for aiding and abetting her brother in committing arson. She also was ordered jointly with her brother to pay $57,415.02 in restitution to the Navajo Housing Authority to pay for damage caused by their criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on July 28, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- National Park Service employees continue to search for missing Glendale, AZ resident Marc Buckhout.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced SERGIO LOPEZ REYNA, 27, to 171 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), and Senate Foreign Relations Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) met with President of South Africa Jacob Zuma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Patricia Renteria, 40, and her son Steve Renteria, 21, both of Cathedral City, to five years and 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess and distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Ryan Fernandes, age 30 of Gloucester, Va., was sentenced today to 204 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release. This followed his Nov. 12, 2013 guilty plea to Conspiracy to Distribute Analogues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: MONROE, La. -A Texan pleaded guilty to his part in kidnapping an Arkansas man and lying to an FBI agent, U.S.Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jorge Melendez, 42, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture more than 100 marijuana plants. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum of 40, a fine of $5,000,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: On Sunday, August 17th at 8:00 a.m. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park invites the public to retrace the 1906 footsteps of the men and women of the Niagara Movement during a commemorative ranger guided walk to the 1906 site of the John Brown Fort. The ceremony will include music, historic readings, and a memorial roll call of the members of the Niagara Movement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced a two-Count criminal Information was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging Joseph S. Hyduk, age 54, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, with wire fraud and income tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 40-year-old Effort man pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick to conspiring with others to distribute heroin in the Monroe County area during a six-month time period.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Sixth Defendant Charged With Related Firearms Offense in Investigation That Intercepted at Least 22 Weapons Bound for South Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A felon convicted in 2003 to unlawful wounding was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Dorsey Woolwine, Jr., 63, of Belle, West Virginia previously pleaded guilty in January of 2014 to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Two Dallas men, who admitted committing the armed robberies of several businesses in the Dallas area in 2012-2013, have pleaded guilty to federal charges, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
