News from August 2014
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah today posted the list of parcels proposed for auction at the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Nov. 18, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Posting initiates a 30-day public protest period. The list includes 69 proposed parcels covering 72,236 acres...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: PIKEVILLE, KY -Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and James V. Allen, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), jointly announced today that the federal government has reached settlements, worth more than a million dollars, with multiple Eastern Kentucky treatment programs and two pharmacies, to settle allegations that they failed to maintain accurate records of their controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 14, 2014, Anthony Darnell Herron, age 23, from Burlington, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 100 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Herron was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following the imprisonment, pay $2500 in restitution, and pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Charles Hufton, age 26, formerly of Cockeysville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division announced Rio Arriba County Sheriff Thomas R. Rodella and his son, Thomas R. Rodella, Jr., were arrested this morning by the FBI on a federal indictment charging them with civil rights, firearms and falsification of documents charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jose Ignacio Goris, 39, of Providence, was ordered detained in federal custody today, charged with attempt to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. Goris was arrested on Thursday by DEA Drug Task Force agents moments after he allegedly took custody of...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) to complete the Environmental Assessment (EA) that analyzed a proposal to rehabilitate the cultural landscape and further develop visitor services at the Rancho de las Cabras, a unit of San Antonio Missions National...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Aug. 15, 2014, Dennis Seaborn Jones, age 69, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced to 121 months in prison on federal child pornography charges in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Dr. Jones was also ordered to serve ten years of supervised release after imprisonment, to pay a $100,000 fine, and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: Magistrate Judge Cites Risk Of Flight In Ordering Detention.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the political transition in Iraq...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Aug. 15, 2014, Austin Agard, 27, Fort Yates, N.D., pleaded guilty before U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to a charge of sexual assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - On Aug. 14, 2014, a Pittsburgh resident was sentenced in federal court to 36 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of a federal firearms violation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and James V. Allen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), jointly announced today that the federal government has reached settlements, worth more than $1 million, with multiple Eastern Kentucky narcotic treatment programs and two pharmacies, to settle allegations that they failed to maintain accurate records of the controlled substances under their control.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: Former postal employee receives 63 month sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Charles Connor, 34, of Anchorage, Alaska, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A former Great Falls dentist has been sentenced to 40 months imprisonment and two years supervised release for tax evasion. James Zander, 63, of Great Falls, Montana was sentenced Friday in federal court in Great Falls, Montana, for criminal conduct resulting in a tax debt of over one million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted a Chinese national on five felony offenses stemming from a computer hacking scheme that involved the theft of trade secrets from American defense contractors, including The Boeing Company, which manufactures the C-17 military transport aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Senior U.S. District Judge James J. Brady sentenced SHYWANDA UNDERWOOD, age 39, of Clinton, Louisiana, yesterday for filing false and fraudulent tax returns and identity theft. The defendant was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment, 2 years of supervised release following imprisonment, an order to pay $287,658 in restitution, and an order to forfeit $14,389 in illegal proceeds.
