News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Joshua M. Meyer, 33, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha for distributing and possessing child pornography. The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior United States District Court Judge, sentenced Meyer to a ten year term in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison Meyer will begin a ten year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A college student from Russia has been charged in the Western District Pennsylvania for allegedly making two destructive devices that were found in a suitcase in his rented apartment on the Penn State Altoona campus.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has announced two funding awards that will support small and mid-sized manufacturers in Nebraska and Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, February 6, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Wendy Harper, 44, Columbus, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to embezzling HUD program funds from her employer, Harvest Management Group...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Stephen R. Bedell, age 51, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced to 14 years in jail yesterday by Judge William K. Sessions III of the United States District Court in Burlington.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today thanked the mental health community for their responses on how to improve the mental health system in America. Last August, the senators sent an open letter requesting stakeholders identify problems and potential improvements to the mental and behavioral health care system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding and Simple Assault was sentenced on February 4, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona will be one of three American Indian tribes, joining the Umatilla Tribe of Oregon, and the Tulalip Tribe of Washington, to be the first in the nation to exercise special criminal jurisdiction over certain crimes of domestic and dating violence, regardless of the defendant’s Indian or non-Indian status, under a pilot project authorized by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA 2013).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced today that Angel Done, 54, of New York, New York, was sentenced by United States District Judge Richard Smoak to 78 months in prison and was ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in conjunction with other defendants in the amount of $245,747.32.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park has released its Mission Critical Administrative Aviation Plan and Environmental Assessment (plan/EA) for managing the use of administrative aviation over the park. The public is invited to comment online or via mail by March 7, 2014.
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below remarks on the Senate Floor on vote for Senator Max Baucus to become U.S. Ambassador to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that new charges were handed down by a federal grand jury charging Martha Anne Shoffner, age 69, of Newport with ten counts of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced today that Richard Wayne Parsons, 35,of Jonesville, Va., has been arrested in Lee County, Virginia on a federal criminal complaint charging him with impersonation of a Deputy United States Marshal. The United States Marshals Service and the Lee County Sheriff’s Department took Parsons into custody on February 5, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced today that the award-winning documentary, “The Opiate Effect", has been made available for viewing and free download. This powerful film features the story of Will Gates, a University of Vermont student who tragically overdosed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kari Sonovich, 42, was arrested today at her home in Meadow Vista, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. On Jan. 31, 2014, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment, charging Sonovich with mail fraud. The indictment was unsealed today after her arrest. Sonovich is scheduled to be arraigned today in federal court in Sacramento at 2:00 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that Oregon Inlet, Frisco, and Ocracoke Campgrounds will open to the public on Friday, April 18, 2014.Oregon Inlet and Frisco Campgrounds will close at noon on Oct. 13, 2014.Ocracoke Island Campground, on a reservation system, will close...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has distributed a portion of forfeited narcotics proceeds to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The final payment was made in January 2014. In total, the Sheriff’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Bernard T. Grucza, 38, of Elma, N.Y., with making false statements during a firearm purchase, possession of a firearm by a person subject to as domestic violence order of protection and making false statements. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Anthony Joseph Harlow, age 30, of Dundalk, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
