News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the owner of a Springfield, Mo., business and a Greene County, Mo., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to avoid paying taxes on $4.7 million in receipts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, four individuals received federal prison terms for their roles in a San Antonio-based firearms trafficking scheme announced U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala and Special Agent in Charge Robert Elder, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Houston Division.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today secured the inclusion and final passage of the bipartisan lands package she negotiated with House and Senate leaders within the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA ) for Fiscal Year 2015. The lands package, Murkowski said, strikes the right balance between vital economic opportunities for western states and a handful of widely-supported conservation measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Lisa Kay Balderrama, age 50, of Cortez, Colorado, pled guilty last week in Durango before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. West to making false statements on a tax return, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd announced. Balderrama is scheduled to be sentenced by a U.S. District Court in Durango on April 8, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Paul L. Black, a/k/a Marcus Lively and Ednecdia Sutina Johnson, a/k/a Tina Johnson have both been sentenced to 15 years in prison for access device fraud, possession of device-making equipment, possession of false identification documents, and possession of a document-making implement.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Arches and Canyonlands national parks are open all year, but the parks' visitor center operations change with the arrival of winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr., announces the return of a third superseding indictment charging members of the Frenchmen/Derbigny gang, or “FnD," with violating federal drug and firearm laws. A federal grand jury returned the indictment on Dec. 11, 2014, against TRAVIS SCOTT, a/k/a “Trap"...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Shonto, AZ -The Visitor Center at Navajo National Monument will be temporarily closed for the scheduled abatement of safely encapsulated asbestos containing material, by licensed abatement professionals, December 16 -31, 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015, the House Thursday evening again approved the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014. This jobs bill reauthorizes Brand USA, the public-private partnership created to promote...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today praised the Senate for its bipartisan approval of the Carl Levin & Howard P. “Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015, which included a bipartisan agreement (Title 30) on provisions under the jurisdiction of the House Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee.The bill will now go to President Obama to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher Wallace, 30, formerly of Bladensburg, Md., pled guilty today to a charge of attempted first-degree sexual abuse for attempting to sexually assault a woman in a park last spring, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that work has begun through the Tennessee Stream Mitigation Program to restore the lower 5,000 feet of Chilogate Creek near the Foothills Parkway and the confluence with Chilhowee Lake. The restoration work will return the stream to its original...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Former Murray County Chief Magistrate Judge Bryant L. Cochran has been found guilty by a federal jury for arranging the false arrest of a woman who alleged that she had been sexually propositioned by Cochran, for tampering with a witness, and for sexually assaulting a county employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY WARGA, 61, of North Kingstown, R.I., waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: A Lorain man was sentenced to four years in prison for identity theft and tax schemes in which he claimed fraudulent tax refunds of more than $121, 000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and said Kathy A. Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Feldis announced today that Billy Cooks, 36, aka “Red Dollaz," pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, namely methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Earlier this week, Cooks’ co-conspirator, E’lala Frank, 36...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Chad Dolaway, 24, of Pine City, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and 15 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeremy Gabriel Trujillo, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M. pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to an armed bank robbery charge and to brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: MIAMI - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division working in conjunction with the Palm Beach Sheriff’s (PBSO), Broward County Sheriff’s (BSO), Hendry County Sheriff’s (HCSO), Pembroke Pines Police (PPPD), City of Miami Gardens Police (MGPD), and the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution...
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening delivered the following remarks on legislation expanding sanctions against Russia. The legislation passed unanimously in the House...