News from February 2014
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Today, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office sold six parcels totaling 6,704.98 acres for $413,440.50 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The highest per-acre price was for an 838-acre parcel in Moffat County sold to Yates Petroleum Corp from Artesia, New Mexico, for $100 per acre.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of California. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Jueves, 13 de febrero de 2014. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - - Un gran jurado federal devolvió hoy 32 acusaciones en contra de Francisco Félix, 40, de Mountain House; Alejandro Martínez, 25, de Patterson;...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Roger K. Howard, age 51, of Englewood, Colorado, was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 108 months in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering, the United States Attorney’s Office, IRS Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: A citizen and national of Brazil, Andrea Carla Barbosa, 36, of Orange Beach, was sentenced today to five years of probation and removal from the country after pleading guilty to immigration fraud, United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today last year’s results in a continuing effort by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to prosecute gun violence in the Fresno area. The federal firearms prosecutions are a product of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Windber, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years of probation, the first six months of which must be served by conditions of home confinement, on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: Saipan, CNMI - Richard Sullivan Benavente, age 43, pleaded guilty on Feb. 10, 2014, to sexual exploitation of a child. The guilty plea was announced by Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. According to the plea agreement, Benavente used his cell phone to produce a video of himself and a 15 year-old female engaging in sexually explicit conduct on or about June 23, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: A Brecksville man and his brother were indicted for operating a scheme to defraud people who believed they were bidding on rare and collectable baseball cards on eBay including Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle cards, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: Robert W. Thomas, 37, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was charged with offering to buy a child, enticement, and receiving and distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Steven Deem, 52, of Mooringsport, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, to 240 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for distribution of child pornography. He is also required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced that yesterday, U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced MONA R. HILL, age 32, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 65 months imprisonment for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. HILL was also sentenced to serve three years of supervised release following her release from imprisonment and ordered to pay the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) $491,268 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Robert Watson, 54, and Marie Watson, 53, both of Pleasant View, Utah, were sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City for their role in a tax fraud scheme arising out of their operation of Teazers Sports Bar & Grill in Ogden, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that three Georgia men were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi for operating a counterfeit check scheme that bilked thousands of dollars from business bank accounts in South Central and Southwest Louisiana areas. A jury found them guilty on November 8, 2013, after a five-day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: Devils Tower, WY - Devils Tower National Monument is one of five national parks across the country selected to participate in the 2014 Transportation Scholars program of the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park will host author and conservation activist Audrey Peterman for a special evening program on Monday, March 3 in honor of Black History Month. Ms. Peterman and her husband Frank authored the book Legacy on the Land: A Black Couple Discovers Our National Inheritance and Tells Why Every American Should Care.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: RAINER WITTICH, age 64, of River Ridge, Louisiana, and the company he owns, THE BRINSON COMPANY, of Harahan, Louisiana, were charged today in a four-count indictment by a federal grand jury for their role in creating and selling fake Mercedes-Benz diagnostic equipment containing proprietary software without authorization, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 12, 2014, Jacob Allen Wilkens (age: 24) of Postville, Iowa, was sentenced by Magistrate Judge James R. Sickel to 24 months’ probation and ordered to pay $110,932.71 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced Feb. 12, 2014, to more than 4 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: What's new in forensic science research? NIST scientists will be presenting recent research results - from fingerprint examination to biological evidence handling - at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting in Seattle from Feb. 17 to 22. Below is a chronological list of talks by NIST scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida -United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Alfred W. Lenz (68, Montague, Michigan) with three counts of wire fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. The indictment also notifies...
