News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the appointment of the following eight U.S. Attorneys to serve two-year terms on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC): André Birotte Jr., Central District of California; Thomas E. Delahanty II, District of Maine; Zachary T. Fardon...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Pastor Charles Lawrence Kennedy, Jr., age 71, of Tampa, Florida was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve one year and a day in federal prison for one count of wire fraud, federal law enforcement announced. Following his prison sentence, Kennedy was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Yesterday, eco-terrorist and longtime fugitive Rebecca Jeanette Rubin was sentenced to five years in prison for three indictments in three federal districts. On Nov. 29, 2012, Rubin, a Canadian citizen, surrendered herself to the FBI at the international border in Blaine, Wash., ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Jimmy Laverne Holmes (57, Fleming Island) has pleaded guilty in United States District Court, in Jacksonville, to receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Mariano H. Herrera, 59, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to armed bank robbery and firearms charges, and admitted robbing the Wells Fargo Bank branch located on 3401 Coors Blvd. NW, in Albuquerque at gunpoint on Sept. 20, 2013. Herrera entered his guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, United States District Judge Alia Moses sentenced 34-year-old Richard Hesles, Jr., and his brother, 24-year-old Damien Hesles to 120 months and 110 months in federal prison, respectively, in connection with a scheme to smuggle over 6,000 rounds of ammunition and hundreds of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: A Waterville woman was charged with bank fraud after she allegedly cashed or attempted to cash approximately 20 stolen checks, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sheridan Gerard Lester, 24, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, pleaded guilty this afternoon to an assault charge in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Lester will be sentenced to 21 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Forty people were indicted for operating two different drug trafficking rings that operated throughout Erie, Genesee and Niagara counties. Through parallel investigations that included undercover operations, GPS tracking devices and hundreds of hours of covert surveillance, investigators...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning and a Wind Advisory in effect for the region affecting the Outer Banks Group units, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial, by mid- afternoon on Tuesday, January 28.The storm is expected to have strong winds, significant snowfall levels and icy conditions that will continue through Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Jack Alan Groenendal, 54, of Grand Rapids, Michigan was sentenced on Jan. 27, 2014 to 15 years in federal prison for attempting to receive child pornography, and 10 years for attempting to access child pornography with the intent to view it, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Defendant Also Pled Guilty To Fraud In Connection With His Sale Of Fake Sculptures Attributed To Two Other Prominent Artists.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Scaglione, Esq., an attorney in Coral Gables, Florida, was sentenced today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, to six months in prison to be followed by four months of home detention with electric monitoring to be served during a two-year term of supervised release. As part of the sentence...
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below opening statements, at today’s nomination hearings for Senator Max Baucus to be U.S. Ambassador to China, Arnold Chacon to be Director General of the Foreign Service and Daniel Bennett Smith to be Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Three defendants, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to their respective roles in a major methamphetamine distribution conspiracy operating in Wichita Falls, Texas, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - Jan. 28, 2014. Karen Hughes, Acting Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x223. Yavapai Basketweaver Donna Nightpipe to Present Cultural Demonstration at Montezuma Castle National Monument. CAMP VERDE, Ariz. - An informal demonstration highlighting the legacy of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SENTRELL BOOKHARDT, 27, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Defrauded Lowe’s of More Than $464,000 by Calling Lowe’s Stores and.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Two Year Federal/State Investigation Into Complex Fraudulent And Counterfeit Check Cashing Scheme Costing Banks In Excess Of $800,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexican national was indicted by a federal grand jury today for attempting to transport approximately two pounds of heroin across the country in his shoes.
