News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that yesterday in Scranton United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Tarmaine Colbert, age 36, formerly of Phoenix, Arizona, to 37 months’ imprisonment for assaulting two correctional officers. On May 29, 2014, Colbert pleaded guilty to the assault which occurred on Jan. 12, 2014, at the U.S. prison facility in Canaan.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding congressional proposals to address corporate inversions...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ - The Deer Head Fire continues to creep and smolder within the fire’s perimeter, however increased relative humidity and recent precipitation have limited the fire’s spread. The fire remains at approximately 1,097 acres and is 75% contained.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JOSHUA RAY HIGGINS, age 27, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Travis Gaines, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 151 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Judge Quarles also found that Gaines is a career offender based on previous narcotics convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Ashley Sekator-Graham’s Husband, A Co-defendant In This Matter, Is Scheduled To Be Sentenced In October For Drug Trafficking And Being A Felon In Possession Of Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Lucas Michael Chansler (age 30, St. Johns) has pleaded guilty to nine counts of producing child pornography. On each of these counts, Chansler faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years, up to 30 years in federal prison, $250,000 in fines, and a potential life term of supervised release. Chansler has been in the custody of the United States Marshals Service since Sept. 2, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Evan Harnden, 45, from North Tonawanda, N.Y., who was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of being an accessory after the fact to a false statement under the Clean Air Act, was sentenced to one year probation by District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron yesterday sentenced Kim Rivers (47, Windermere) to six years in federal prison for three counts of aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered Rivers to pay restitution to the victims in the amount of $1,160,284.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: BILLINGS - A Wyoming man who stole over 500 pounds of explosives from the U.S. Forest Service has pleaded guilty to federal charges arising from the theft. Budd Nesius, a 33-year old resident of Wheatland, Wyoming pleaded guilty to possession of stolen explosives. He faces 10 years in prison, $250,000 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Tevon Harris aka “Da Kidd" and “King Kidd," 22, of Houston, will be spending the next 40 years in prison as a result of his convictions on two counts of trafficking children under 18 for commercial sex, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Harris pleaded guilty April 9, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Optim Healthcare, based in Savannah, and others have agreed to pay the United States a total of $4 million to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to the Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JIMMY DALE STRAHAN, age 63, of Pottsboro, Texas, was sentenced on July 30, 2014, to 27 months imprisonment, followed by 36 months of supervised release for Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. STRAHAN was also ordered to pay $685,347.25 in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A joint law enforcement operation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Dominican National Police and other Dominican law enforcement agencies led to the arrest of eight human traffickers and the rescue of 25 human trafficking victims Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - - Oganes Serobyan, 41, a resident of Citrus Heights, California, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to over four years in prison for wire fraud and manufacturing marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Five Pittsburgh-area residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. One of the counts in the indictment charges a defendant with distributing heroin that resulted in the death of a user of the heroin.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is seeking applications for grants that will be awarded to organizations to provide critical financial and technical assistance to recipients to develop and strengthen their capacity to carry out housing, community facilities and community and economic development projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return by a grand jury of a three-count indictment charging Pedro Luis Infantes (47) and his son, Luis Rafael Infantes (21), both of Ocala, with the theft of government property, interstate transportation of stolen property and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
