News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Dodge City gang member was sentenced Monday to 10 years for conspiring to attempt to kill a rival gang member, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Research by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists focused on a major threat to cotton in the Southwestern United States could soon help growers cut back on insecticide use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Julian Vega-Valdez, 25, a Mexican national, was sentenced today in federal court in Pocatello to 70 months in prison for distributing five grams or more of actual methamphetamine. He appeared today before Judge N. Randy Smith of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting by special designation as a district court judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Today, two defendants were sentenced, three defendants pleaded guilty, and a defendant is back in custody after breaking the terms of his supervised release, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: A Concord Township man was charged in federal court for defrauding Cleveland-based Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union out of $2.5 million, 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 | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Robert Cedrick Baker, III, age 37, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to serve 75 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Hugh Lawson, United States District Court Judge, in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Irene, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on January 9, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES -- A North Hollywood woman who worked in the health care industry pleaded guilty today to federal charges for orchestrating a scheme that submitted nearly $25 million in fraudulent bills to Medicare for services and supplies, including power wheelchairs and diagnostic tests that were medically unnecessary and sometimes were never provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. A former Marshall County insurance agent was sentenced Monday to 21 months in federal prison for stealing customers' premiums, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. In addition, she was ordered to pay $160,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announced that on Jan. 10, 2014, Jacob L. Anderson, was sentenced by District Judge Kristi K. DuBose to serve 42 months in prison on one count of Bank Robbery after Anderson’s plea of guilty. The indictment alleged that on or about July 12, 2013, Anderson robbed the Tillman’s Corner Branch of Wells Fargo Bank of approximately $2,054.00 in United States currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 13, 2014, Adrienne Ducheneaux, 42, and Chad Lavallie, 40, both of Bismarck, N.D., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of assaulting a federal officer. Ducheneaux pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 18, 2013. Lavallie pleaded guilty to the charge on Sept. 10, 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement after learning that Congressman George Miller (D-CA), senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, would retire at the end of his term. Harkin and Miller were both elected to the U.S. House in 1974 and...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Glen Livermont, Superintendent, at Pipestone National Monument, announces the first presentation in this year's Guest Speaker Series at the Pipestone Performing Arts Center, Pipestone, Minnesota, on Saturday, January 25th, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Guest speaker, Adrian Hannus, Ph.D. will...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: The historic walk scheduled to take place on January 25th has been postponed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Michael Paul Thompson, 32, of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 13 months in prison for escaping from the custody of a federal correctional institution, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Third Co-conspirator Sentencing Set for March 17, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte federal jury convicted today Pedro Oscar Dieguez, also known as "The Cuban," 48, of Indian Trail, N.C., on cocaine trafficking and related charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) returned three recovered sculptures, valued at more than $1.5 million, to the government of India Tuesday during a repatriation ceremony at the consulate in New York City. One of the objects - a 350-pound sandstone sculpture stolen from an Indian temple in 2009 - was listed as one of INTERPOL's top 10 most wanted stolen works of art.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two more marijuana cultivators were sentenced and three entered guilty pleas today for their involvement in separate cases resulting from Operation Mercury, a six-county effort that focused on large-scale marijuana cultivation on agricultural land in the Central Valley, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announces that Steven James Lucy was sentenced on Friday by United States District Court Judge William H. Steele to forty- six months imprisonment for possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine in violation of Title 21 USC ' 841(a)(1). The...
