News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A grand jury indicted Mark Threet, 52, of Modesto, today, charging him with making a false claim for a tax refund, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRADLEY S. WILLIAMS, age 49, of Avondale, was sentenced today following his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine hydrochloride. On Aug. 2, 2013, WILLIAMS was one of 15 defendants charged in a 17-count superseding indictment.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: RIDGELAND, MS: Natchez Trace Parkway officials announce that the restroom located at the Ridgeland Information Cabin, at milepost 102.4, is closed until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Oscar Ayala-Arizmendi, 36, from Guerrero, Mexico, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Ayala-Arizmendi will be deported at the end of his prison term. U.S. District Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered forfeiture of the firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the filing of an indictment returned by a federal grand jury earlier this week that charges BRIAN CAVALIER, age 33, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with two (2) counts of making threats by mail, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e). If convicted, the defendant could face significant incarceration, fines, restitution, and supervised release following imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Join us for a special Geminid Meteor Shower Night Sky Program Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 -6:00 - 8:00 PM.Do you like shooting stars? We do! Saturday will be the peak of the Geminid Meteor Shower, famous for having a modest number of shooting stars but a high percentage of extra-bright "fireball" meteors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Oscar Ayala-Arizmendi, 36, from Guerrero, Mexico, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Ayala-Arizmendi will be deported at the end of his prison term. U.S. District Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered forfeiture of the firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Roberto Bisono and Juan Miguel Ruiz for their roles in a conspiracy involving theft of government property and cashing numerous false and fraudulently filed federal income tax refund checks. Bisono and Ruiz were sentenced to 18 months and 15 months in federal prison, respectively. Both were also ordered to pay $711,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jorden Medina, 54, a non-Native man who resides in El Prado, N.M., was sentenced this morning for his federal involuntary manslaughter conviction. Medina will serve a year in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Three former Beaumont Independent School District employees have pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Rayville, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to produce thousands of counterfeit identification documents that were distributed to illegal aliens, and to illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Nicholas Robert Bowen, 63, of Grizzly Flat, pleaded guilty today to receipt and distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Nathaniel Mosley, age 44, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo on Dec. 3, 2014 to 168 months’ imprisonment, a $1,200 fine and three years of supervised release following his release from imprisonment after pleading guilty to armed robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence in June 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Octavio Lombardo, A/k/a “Otto Lombardo," Charged With Defrauding Over 30 Small Business Owners.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Thomasine Tynes, 71, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for lying about ticket fixing at Philadelphia’s former Traffic Court. A federal jury, on July 23, 2014, found Tynes, a former traffic court judge, guilty of two counts of committing perjury before the federal grand jury investigating the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Three members of a large-scale drug trafficking organization have admitted conspiring to distribute heroin in Ocean and Monmouth counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Andrea Lorraine Polisso, 36, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to one count of unlawfully possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags-devices that can transmit data over short distances to identify objects, animals or people-have become increasingly popular for tracking everything from automobiles being manufactured on an assembly line to zoo animals in transit to their new homes. Now, thanks to a new NIST report, the next beneficiaries of RFID technology may soon be law enforcement agencies responsible for the management of forensic evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - JEFFREY GUNDEL, age 50, of Gansevoort, New York, pled guilty in Albany yesterday before United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino to one count of unlawful distribution of oxycodone, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, Drug Enforcement Administration.
