News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Correctional officer Ramon Cano, 28, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy to provide and possess contraband in prison, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. Sentencing has been scheduled for Dec. 15, 2014, for a St. Anne, Ill., man, Edward Dorsey Sr., 42, who entered open pleas of guilty on Friday to three counts of distributing crack cocaine in Kankakee County. Dorsey appeared on Aug. 22, before U.S. Magistrate Judge David G. Bernthal. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - United States Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that JONATHAN CONKLIN, 43, and CHARLES SANFORD, 30, were arrested on Aug. 22, 2014 and charged in a federal criminal complaint with carjacking, use of a firearm and transportation of a stolen vehicle. If convicted of the charges, the defendants face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment, a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Aug. 21, 2014, Heather L. Richey, 38, of Murphysboro, Ill., was sentenced for her involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy, the United States Attorney for the Southern District...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
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By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: Join Devils Postpile rangers for a special Labor Day weekend astronomy program! Program starts at 9 pm, Sunday August, 31, at the Minaret Vista Overlook. Dress warm (jackets, blankets) and leave your head lamp at home!.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding news reports that Burger King has plans to invert with Canadian company Tim Hortons...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA -Mauricio Warner has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for using the identities of thousands of unsuspecting individuals to file federal tax returns claiming over $5 million in bogus refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: ST. AUGUSTINE, FL -Castillo de San Marcos National Monument will celebrate the 98th birthday of the National Park Service by waiving its normal entrance fee of $7 and offering special interpretive programs, including Spanish 18th century weapon firing demonstrations on Monday, August 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Troy Palmer, 43, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today to 40 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to launder money, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Palmer to pay a $2,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 10, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement in response to the announcement by the United States Trade Representative that the dispute settlement process in the 2011 Guatemala labor enforcement case brought under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) will be suspended for four weeks...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Alex Wiggins, 52, of Farmington, N.M., was sentenced this morning to a year of probation for his misdemeanor conviction on a depredation of government property charge. Wiggins also was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of California. Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. . FRESNO, Calif. - Ernedina Madrigal, 78, of Fresno, aka Mary Louise Madrigal, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - On Aug. 25, 2014, Curtis Ray Manuel, 23, of Bapchule, Ariz., a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snowto 187 months in prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release. Manuel pleaded guilty on June 11, 2014, to abusive sexual contact of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Byits nature, every day is a celebration of wilderness at Denali National Park and Preserve, but 2014 is special because it marks the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act.The Wilderness Act protects the 2 million acre Denali Wilderness, protecting this.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: SALEM, MA - This week staff from Salem Maritime and Saugus Iron Works National Historic Sites invite you to join them in celebrating the National Park Service's 98th birthday. Both National Park Service sites are offering free public tours, including Junior Ranger programs and conversations with park rangers about the founding history of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Tempest Amerson, 24, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Rosland Starks, 45, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, were sentenced on Aug. 21, in Lincoln, Nebraska, by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Amerson received a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Carrolltown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - Eight individuals from the Lynchburg area have been charged with a variety of federal crimes related to an alleged cocaine distribution conspiracy that is accused of dispersing more than 500 grams of cocaine in the Lynchburg region between September 1998 and August 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2014
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - - Troy Palmer, 43, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today to 40 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to launder money. Palmer was ordered by the court to pay a $2,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 10, 2014.
