News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Scott Alan Seidlitz pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland today to possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Vegetation Pile Burns Planned in Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: McGann Dummied Up Invoices For Coal Operators As Part Of A Tax Evasion Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Students from Waggoner Road Middle School in Reynoldsburg, Ohio are leading the effort to restore the Ohio State Monument that stands proudly on Missionary Ridge as part of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The Waggoner Road Middle School students are partnering with the National Park Service and the Friends of the Park to raise $5,000 for restoration of the monument. (Please see the Friends' website at www.friendsofchch.org for more information).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, February 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JUSTIN POWELL, also known as “Jus," 32, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: PETER M. HOFFMAN, age 63, of Los Angeles, California and MICHAEL P. ARATA, age 47, of New Orleans, Louisiana, were charged in a six count Indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with conspiracy and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Defendants Trafficked Minor Girls And Women From Mexico And Forced Them To Work In Prostitution.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Recognizing the socioeconomic value of managing iconic recreation and conservation lands for public use and enjoyment, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah today signed the Decision Record approving a recreational land exchange with the State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Alexandru Stanciu, 34, of Bucharest, Romania pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud for his role in moving approximately $320,000 in illicit proceeds derived from an international online marketplace fraud scheme, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Quentin Booker who participated in five robberies of armored car couriers in the Metro Atlanta area, pleaded guilty today to the charges of aiding and abetting the armed robberies, and aiding and abetting the carrying and use of a firearm during the commission of those crimes of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - J.M. Waller Associates, Inc. (“JMWA"), a corporation headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, will pay $229,060 to settle certain civil claims under the federal False Claims Act in an agreement signed on February 5, 2014. The United States had alleged that JMWA submitted false or fraudulent claims...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Donwand Cuppatino Harmon, age 37, of Annapolis, Maryland, today to 210 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. Judge Hollander also ordered Harmon to forfeit $27,895 in cash, a 2010 Porsche Panamera, a 2008 Mercedes Benz CL550, and jewelry, including a Breitling wrist watch with a diamond face and band.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On February 5, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a seven count indictment against Pedro A. Rodríguez-Colondres for wire fraud, false statement in application and use of passport, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, and false statement to a Department or Agency of the United States, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Peter I. Hendy, II, 33, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 20 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend’s four-year-old son, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The last five pending defendants in a series of huge cases targeting the Nuestra Familia organization pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Calixtro Israel Sanchez, aka Cali Killa, aka Cali, 26, of Hanford, pleaded guilty today to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Todd Anthony Sawyer, Jr., age 28, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced for possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine. United States District Court Judge Robert H. Whaley sentenced Sawyer to a 10-year term of imprisonment and a five-year term of court supervision following release from Federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Angela Seavers, 35, of Ridgeway, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to a term of 37 months in prison for conspiring with others to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Seavers pled guilty on Oct. 24, 2013, to conspiring with Dustin J. Lowe, 25, also of Ridgeway, and others, between February 2012 and March 2013 to illegally manufacture the drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz - On Feb. 7, 2014, Hernan Ramirez-Ortega, 39, of Honduras was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgensonto 27 years in prison as the result of his guilty pleas to one count each of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact. Ramirez-Ortega admitted sexually assaulting an...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Received Fourteen Years in Prison. ALBANY, NEW YORK - JOEL CUNNINGHAM, age 30, of Ottawa, Canada, was sentenced today to fourteen years in prison by United States District Court Judge Glenn T. Suddaby, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Homeland Security Investigations Assistant...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Effective immediately, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) and its employees have new phone numbers. The new main National Lakeshore number is 231-326-4700 with employees having their own direct phone lines. From the new main number, 231-326-4700, callers will access an automated system with a variety of menus, including campground information, business with the National Lakeshore, pets in the park, and an employee directory.
