News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Troy Foster Mitchell, 47, of Modesto, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to six years and five months in prison and ordered him to pay $10,114 in restitution for bank robberies in Modesto and Stockton, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN MARSH, 27, of South Windsor, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to five years of probation for stealing a firearm from a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Senate Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Ranking Member Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Senate Special Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A 60-year-old Mercer County pedophile faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Johnny Richard Rowe, of Bluewell, W.Va., entered a guilty plea on Jan. 6 before Senior United States District Court Judge David A. Faber in Bluefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that six men pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to heroin distribution offenses. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Maria Estelle Martin, 48, of Lawton, was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for embezzling cash from a credit institution, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: For many visitors, winter is their favorite season to enjoy Rocky Mountain National Park. The park is less visited but still very much open and alive with activity. Beautiful backcountry areas can be reached on snowshoes, skis, and at lower elevations - even with hiking boots! Elk, coyotes, deer, snowshoe...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Victor Manuel Carreon, 23, of Anthony, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Carreon entered his guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Luis Magana, 20, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to dealing firearms without a license and to distribution of methamphetamine in a case resulting from Operation Gideon IV, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Florida-based physician, Dr. Ravi Sharma, has agreed to pay $400,000 to resolve allegations that he and his clinics violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing Medicare for vein injections and physician office visits performed by unqualified personnel, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The owner of a gun shop in Hobbs, N.M., and his parents, who assisted their son in operating the gun shop, pleaded guilty this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to violating the federal firearms laws, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and Special Agent in Charge Bernard J. Zapor of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after meeting with Republic of Korea Foreign Affairs Minister Yun Byung-se. This was the first meeting Chairman Menendez held with a foreign dignitary this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Lyndon Jones (45, Sarasota) today pleaded guilty to theft of government funds. Jones faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Colorado man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to transport women across state lines for prostitution in New Jersey and other states, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., business owner was indicted by a federal grand jury today for a scheme to defraud the government by failing to pay over to the Internal Revenue Service more than $260,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Lori “Sue" Clum (formerly Johnson), 46, of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to 18 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILLIAM DONG, 23, of Fairfield, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with the unlawful transport into Connecticut of an assault weapon purchased in Pennsylvania. The complaint was unsealed today during DONG’s appearance in New Haven federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Several patient recruiters, including a medical clinic owner, pleaded guilty today in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving Flores Home Health Care Inc., a defunct home health care company.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Ozark Riverways Postpones Public Meetings. VAN BUREN MO:Acting Superintendent Russell Runge announced today that the public meetings for the Draft General Management Plan have been postponed due to the recent winter storm and poor condition of many roads in southeastern Missouri.States Runge, "After...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Gerald Edward Massey, 56, formerly of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Massey was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on Aug. 14, 2013, for one count of bank robbery. He was living in Shreveport, Louisiana, at the time of his arrest in August 2013.
