News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a guilty verdict today against Daniel Phillip Tenorio on sexual abuse charges after a four-day trial, announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Flagstaff Area National Monuments Superintendent Releases Updated Compendium.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 18, 2014, Sandra Kincaid, 63, of Maryville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 470 months in prison by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Revonia Jones, 54, of Morrisville, was charged today by information with one count of theft of government funds and one count of false statements, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, the defendant applied for and received Federal Emergency Management Agency...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Vegas Field Office is seeking public comment on a proposal to revise a Recreation and Public Purposes Act (R&PP) lease by changing the use of five acres of the R&PP lease from a tree farm to a public park. The park is located on the corner of Flamingo...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Israel Berríos-Berríos, a suspended Catholic priest, pleaded guilty today to transporting a minor with the intent to engage criminal sexual conduct, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Berríos-Berríos is facing a possible sentence of 10 to 12 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: National Park Service rangers and Teton County Sherriff's Office personnel conducted a manhunt for three individuals Thursday morning, Aug. 21, 2014. Jackson Lake Lodge security officers reported to park officials that three young men were actively breaking and entering into an employee dorm room at...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Christopher Earl Terry, 41, a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 8.5 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Terry previously pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Copper Center, AK - The National Park Service (NPS) has published in the Federal Register a final rule for the management of off-road vehicle (ORV) use in the Nabesna District of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (WRST). The rule is effective Sept. 19, 2014. The final rule is supported by the Nabesna Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Record of Decision (ROD). The ROD was signed on Dec. 14, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Defendant already on parole for child molest case alleged to have possessed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Dias Kadyrbayev, 20, a close friend of alleged Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston, to impeding the bombing investigation. Kadyrbayev pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice and obstructing justice with the intent to impede the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raul Ortega, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 18 years in federal prison for his conviction on carjacking and firearms charges. Ortega will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence. Ortega also was ordered, jointly with his co-defendant, to pay $2335.24 in restitution to the victims of his criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A leader of a drug trafficking organization based in Guatemala, along with a U.S.-based associate, were indicted by a federal grand jury today for participating in a conspiracy to import and distribute multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: HELENA - The United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has awarded a former Montana federal prosecutor the ATF Honor Award for her work on a multi-defendant operation that convicted 22 defendants in federal court in 2012 and 2013. Marcia Hurd, a former United States Assistant Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder and Associate Attorney General Tony West announced today that the Department of Justice has reached a $16.65 billion settlement with Bank of America Corporation - the largest civil settlement with a single entity in American history - to resolve federal and state claims...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Homestead, Florida: Have you ever imagined yourself exploring exotic places in search of the perfect story? Do you dream of travelling and changing the world through your writing? For over a century, the Everglades has been immortalized through the writings of people like Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Carl Hiaasen, Zora Neale Hurston and Michael Grunwald.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Jose Guadalupe Pacheco-Ramirez, a/k/a “Jose Ramirez," 39, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about July 21, 2014, Pacheco-Ramirez, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about May 24, 2005 and Aug. 24, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that JUSTIN SLATE THRONEBERRY, age 32, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years of probation for Delay Or Destruction Of Mail By a Postal Employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1703.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that AARON ORTLOFF, age 42, of Kenner, Louisiana, plead guilty as charged yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. to a one-count Bill of Information alleging a wire fraud investment scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 19, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 16 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District...
