News from January 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Look at all the snow! What could you do to have fun? Why not join the next Backyard Rangers program at Fort Stanwix National Monument. On Saturday, Jan. 18,from 10 to 11:30 am and from 1:30 to 3 pm the Backyard Rangers will explore the winter traditions of the Oneida Indians. Throughout the day Oneida...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that two Fairbanks men entered pleas of guilty in federal court today in Fairbanks, for two counts of trafficking in narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Charles Link, 53, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to nine years in prison on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon stemming from the stabbing of a man in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Brian Hudson, a/k/a “Country," age 33, of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By State Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: New York- Rep. Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the recent violence in Cambodia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today Juan Carlos Garcia, 36, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Garcia to serve 10 years of supervised release and pay a $3,000 fine. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kenneth Griffin, 46, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to engage in money laundering, was sentenced to 46 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Andersonville National Historic Site will offer a series of events and programs to mark the Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary) of the Andersonville Prison throughout 2014 and 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man convicted of Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender was sentenced on Dec. 30, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, woman convicted of Larceny was sentenced on Dec. 30, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Samuel Damien Bynum, age 23, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to use a gun during a carjacking, using a gun during a carjacking, carjacking and being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Camorette James (28, Miami) today pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. She faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Lucilious J. Ward, age 63, of Denver, Colorado, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lewis T. Babcock today to one count of failure to account for and pay over the employment taxes withheld from his employees’ paychecks and one count of making a false claim against the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that John Kuhl, 42, of Newport, Vermont, was sentenced in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, on Jan. 2, 2014, to serve 60-months imprisonment and a five (5) year term of supervised release following his conviction on one count of receipt of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2). Chief Judge Christina Reiss also ordered Kuhl to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Sarah Kate Henecke, 35, also known as Alessandra Valencia Toscanelli, of Las Vegas, Nevada, has been indicted for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme. Henecke was arrested in Nevada on Dec. 11, 2013. She is scheduled to make her first appearance in federal court in Idaho at 11:00 a.m. on Jan. 15, 2014, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale at the federal courthouse in Pocatello.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 3, 2014, Christopher Thunder Hawk, 19, Cannonball, N.D., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Bridgeport...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty in federal court to federal drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 2, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “Today, Jan. 2, 2014, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to Brownsville, Texas with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner Thomas Winkowski to attend the memorial service for CBP Officer Darrell Jean Windhaus, who passed away while on duty this past Sunday.”
By USDA Newswire | Jan 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2014 - Agriculture Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon today announced that USDA is making permanent the current flexibility that allows schools to serve larger portions of lean protein and whole grains at mealtime.
