News from December 2014
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: LEXINGTON, KY -Norshawn Michael Duplessis, 40, of Detroit, Mich., has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, for possessing hundreds of grams of heroin and a firearm in Lexington.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Dec. 18, 2014, Antoine Lee Williams, 28, from Minot, N.D. was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson, following a guilty plea to Bank Robbery, to serve 33 months in prison to be followed by 36 months supervised release. Williams must also pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Robert Durandis, 24, Donald Charles, 25, Gilbert Pierre-Charles, 22 and Manuel Reyes-Gonzalez, 21, all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania were charged today by superseding indictment with conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Conspirators Presented Over 1,400 Counterfeit Checks to Target Stores in Over Two Years, Resulting in a Loss of at Least $485,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Garry (48, Orlando) to 15 years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking. The Court also ordered him to forfeit approximately $611,613, two automobiles, and his home on South Buena Vista Avenue in Orlando, all of which were either used to facilitate the crime, or determined to be traceable proceeds of the offense. Wiggins pleaded guilty on Sept. 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office 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 | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released for public comment the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Land-use Plan Amendments for the Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line Project in Umatilla, Morrow, Union, Baker, and Malheur Counties, Oregon, and Owyhee County, Idaho. Idaho Power...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ( - DANBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Demetrios Papadakos, also known as “Jimmy," 67, of Danbury, was sentenced yesterday...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released a staff report which finds poor decision-making by administrative law judges (ALJs) in the Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs has potentially wasted billions of taxpayer dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a St. Joseph, Mo., commercial truck driver who is a registered sex offender has been convicted by a federal trial jury of transporting a minor across...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that William Miller, 53, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of online enticement of a minor, was sentenced to 168 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christian Dean Reid, 39, a citizen of Canada, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to making false statements. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the United States Secret Service Protective Mission Panel report (executive summary)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Garry Wiggins (48, Orlando) to 15 years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking. The Court also ordered him to forfeit approximately $611,613, two automobiles, and his home on South Buena Vista Avenue in Orlando, all of which were either used to facilitate the crime, or determined to be traceable proceeds of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania woman pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston to orchestrating a multi-million dollar investment fraud scheme that harmed scores of victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALFREDO VARELA-HERNANDEZ, age 35, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Filmed a minor while she was drying off in a shower.
