News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John Hoffman, 43, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced this morning to two years of probation for his felony conviction for embezzling money belonging to an Indian gaming establishment. His wife and accomplice, Michelle Fischer, 43, also received a two-year probationary sentence for her misdemeanor...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: A 74-year-old man from Fort Collins suffered a cardiac emergency while snowshoeing near Mills Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. His friends contacted park rangers by cell phone and performed Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). The man was pronounced dead at approximately 1:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: ROOFING COMPANY OWNER PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO SMUGGLE ILLEGAL ALIENS AND INSURANCE FRAUD.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Rodney Andre McCray (31, Tampa) to 18 months in federal prison for theft of government funds. As part of his sentence, the court also ordered McCray to pay $78,728.00 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, and entered a money judgment in the amount of $3,500.00, the proceeds of the theft personally received by McCray.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) highlighted a new report from the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) entitled, “Border Security: DHS’s Efforts to Modernize Key Enforcement Systems Could be Strengthened", that...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES)began working with a contractor to remove mold and dust from land title records. These records, dating back to the early 1800s, are valuable resources for title companies, historians, and genealogists. Work to clean them began on January 6, 2014 and is expected to be completed in early February. Public access to some of the records will be limited during this time.
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: 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 WILLIAM DONG, 23, of Fairfield, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with the unlawful...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida - The public is invited to participate in the Big Day Birding Adventure, a “citizen science" activity to count birds within the varied habitats of Everglades National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Rodney Hubert, a/k/a “Noah," age 38, of Baltimore and New York, New York, and Charles Hufton, a/k/a “CJ," age 25, of Cockeysville, Maryland, with conspiring to traffic a minor to engage in commercial sex acts and with sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - Acting U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Brian K. Hatten (33, Orlando) guilty of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Based on his prior felony convictions, Hatten faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 28, 2014, before U.S. District Court Judge John Antoon, II.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment & Public Works Committee, has been working to hold the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accountable to the American public, specifically focusing on transparency and sound science. During the nomination process for Gina McCarthy, current ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Jordan Schoo, 34, of both Nampa and Grangeville, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to identity theft by possession of five or more false identification documents and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Schoo was charged in an 11-count indictment filed in federal court in Boise on Aug. 14, 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, commended Los Angeles City Attorney, Mike Feuer, for seeking to ensure that AllenCo does not reopen its oil and gas pumping facility until it has complied fully with applicable law and no longer poses ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Ozark Riverways Reschedules 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 Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Karl Cordova, Superintendent (520) 723-3172. Casa Grande Ruins Offers Special Exhibitor. Native Desert Plants - January 18 & 19, 2014. COOLIDGE, AZ- Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is featuring author Jean Groen in the visitor center atrium area on Saturday, January 18 and Sunday, January 19. Jean...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Tabatha N. Ashburn was sentenced on Monday, January 6, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp to a term of probation for five years, twelve months of which must be served under the location monitoring program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Edna Yvonne Orr Goff, 37, of Thomaston, Georgia, was sentenced on January 7, 2014 to serve thirty six (36) months imprisonment for conspiracy to file false federal tax returns and aggravated identity theft by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Mark A. Ciccarello, 36, of Meridian, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to count four of the indictment charging him with money laundering, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Ciccarello and four co-defendants were indicted by a federal grand jury in May 2013 on charges...
