News published on Federal Newswire in February 2014

News from February 2014


News Release: Project Safe Childhood. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man who used a false identity as a woman to trick seven minor victims, whom he knew through his involvement in the Boy Scouts of America, pleaded...


News Release: Join us at Fort Moultrie for free programs February 15-17, 2014 in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinking the USS Housatonic off Sullivan’s Island on Feb. 17, 1864. Because this event coincides with President’s Day Weekend the normal entrance fee is waived.


News Release: A Snohomish County woman who led a ring of gun and drug traffickers was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison and four years of supervised release for conspiracy to illegally deal in firearms, being a felon in possession of a firearm and distribution of methamphetamine, ...


Rosebud Woman Charged With False Statements Relating To Health Care Matters And Attempt To Obtain Controlled Substance By Fraud

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for False Statements Relating to Health Care Matters and Attempt to Obtain Controlled Substance by Fraud.


News Release: SEATTLE - A Puyallup, Washington man who shot and killed two men who had entered the garage where he was growing marijuana, was sentenced on Jan. 31, 2014, to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for manufacturing marijuana and possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime.


Waterbury Man Admits Producing Child Pornography

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESUS F. GONZALEZ, SR., 37, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Lamar Brown, 37, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a 16-year prison term for the brutal stabbing of a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.


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News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Michael James Allen, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been sentenced today to ten years (120 months) in prison - the statutory maximum - for his role in transferring a Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistol to multi-convicted felon Roderic Dantzler, who used it to kill seven people. Allen...


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BAYOHAN MANGUAL, also known as “YG," 29, of Willimantic and Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District...


Crack Dealer Sentenced to Four Years in Federal Prison

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BAYOHAN MANGUAL, also known as “YG," 29, of Willimantic and Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.


Huntington Man Pleads Guilty To Major Federal Heroin Charge

News Release: Dealer busted with more than a kilo of heroin, hundreds of Rx pills; faces at least 10 years in federal prison.


News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bolivar, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography. Leland Wallace Crull, 44, of Bolivar, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate...


News Release: Earlier today, two members of the Ñetas street gang, Alvaro Cabral, also known as “Boobi," and Jason Cabral, also known as “J-Live," pleaded guilty to the 2004 murders of Anthony Marcano and Fabian Mestres. Stephanie DiCarlo-Cabral, an associate of the gang and at the time the girlfriend of Jason Cabral...


News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: ROBERTO BARRERO, 46, a naturalized American citizen originally from Bolivia, was sentenced last week by Senior Judge B. Avant Edenfield to 15 years in prison for his role in a far-reaching conspiracy whose goals included smuggling firearms and stolen cars to Bolivia, smuggling contraband ...


Baker County Man Sentenced To 32 Months In Federal Prison For Failing To Register As Sex Offender

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Ray Charles Gasaway (48, Glen St. Mary) to 32 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender in the state of Florida after relocating from the state of Tennessee. Gasaway was also ordered to serve a...


Preparing the Next Generation of Female Physicists

News Release: "If the profession of physics is to thrive, we must make it our goal to achieve a scientifically literate society, a population that understands and values the contributions that science makes to our national well-being," said Katharine Gebbie, former Director of the NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) and a co-organizer of last month's Mid-Atlantic Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics.


W&M Democrats to Boehner: Don’t Squeeze Taxpayers with More Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship

News Release: Dear Speaker Boehner: The tax filing season began on Friday, having already been delayed more than a week because of last fall’s government shutdown. Tens of millions of Americans are likely to immediately file their tax returns with the expectation that the amount they overpaid in taxes last year will...


News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Elmora, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation, the first six months of which must be served by condition of home confinement, and 100 hours of community service on his conviction of conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


New Report Outlines Treatment and Regulation of Bitcoin Around the World

News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report prepared by the Law Library of Congress that summarizes the legal status of virtual currencies, like Bitcoin, in 40 foreign nations and the European Union. The report,...