News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A California man was indicted Thursday on a federal charge of transporting approximately 26 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a spare tire, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jonathan Garcia, 24, of Lathrop, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. to eight years and five months in prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A former director of the Clarke University bookstore in Dubuque, Iowa, who used a fictitious book supply company to falsely bill the University for more than $300,000.00, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A man who purchased the old YMCA building in 2009, learned it contained asbestos, and knowingly mishandled the asbestos during the demolition and renovation of the building pled guilty on Dec. 17, 2014, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Dec. 16, 2014, Travis D. Bailey, 30, was sentenced for a federal firearm violation, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Juan Ramon Curiel, 36, of Visalia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and bankruptcy fraud in connection with a foreclosure rescue scheme he orchestrated, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Curiel’s co-defendant and business partner, Santiago Palacios-Hernandez, 45, of Salinas, pleaded guilty to the same conspiracy charge last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Julio Perez, 32; Rafael Legorreta, 34, both of Bakersfield; and Francisco Rivera, 29 of Palmdale, charging them with conspiracy to distribute heroin and possession with intent to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Used Aggressive Boiler Room Tactics To Target Elderly Investors Throughout The United States.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas Fire and Aviation Program is accepting applications for seasonal wildland firefighters to help protect our public lands.Positions available include working as a dispatcher, an engine crewmember firefighter, a helicopter crewmember firefighter, or a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Houston investment manager was sentenced late Wednesday afternoon to 56 months in prison for orchestrating a $72 million investment fraud scheme resulting in approximately $40 million in losses to investors. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby imposed the sentence in federal court in Salt Lake City.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The findings appear in the paper From the Extreme to the Mean: Acceleration and Tipping Points for Coastal Inundation due to Sea Level Rise, and follows the earlier study, Sea Level Rise and Nuisance Flood Frequency Changes around the United States, by the report’s co-author, William Sweet, Ph.D., oceanographer...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ( - BOSTON - Three individuals were charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston with distributing oxycodone via false prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Andre Lewis, 33, of Santa Fe, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to federal tax offenses, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Dawn Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Office of IRS Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), announced that separate criminal charges were filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg against five illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEWART DANIEL HARBIN, 30, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison by United States District Judge Cathy Seibel for his 2012 reckless assault of a baby while on the grounds of West Point Military Academy (“West Point"). The sentencing followed HARBIN’S guilty plea on March 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Christian Dior Womack, a/k/a “Gucci Prada," 30, of Chester, PA, was sentenced today to life in prison for sex trafficking females, including a minor, for prostitution. Womack pleaded guilty, on July 23, 2014, during jury selection for his federal trial. He operated a prostitution venture...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 17, 2014, Aaron Keith Drennan, 21, of Parker, Ariz., was sentenced by Judge Roslyn O. Silver to 57 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Drennan previously pleaded guilty to robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - Eight drug traffickers have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Peter Fields, also known as Charles Smith, 48, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with mail fraud, bank fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Fields obtained the personal and financial information of victims and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE RAMON GARCIANO-CABANILLA, age 47, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
