News from January 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Jan. 24, 2014, Michael Phillip Castor, age 40 of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior Judge Robert W. Pratt, in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on a charge of felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Manjot Nanner, 32, a resident of Fresno and Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute cocaine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Defendant Owns and Operates Pharmacies. DALLAS - Linus Nwosu was sentenced on Thursday, by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, to 24 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in June 2013 to one count of conspiracy to commit structuring. He was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - William Spencer Farley, who robbed the City National Bank on Route 60 in Huntington in July of 2013, was sentenced today to five years and ten months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. On July 26, 2013, Farley pointed a pistol at a bank teller and demanded cash.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A member of a Dodge City street gang was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A woman who pleaded guilty to stealing over $400,000 from the unemployment system, public housing authority, and Social Security Administration, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $477,466 in restitution, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Russell Galipeau has extended the deadline again for public comment on the Draft General Management Plan and Wilderness Study/Environmental Impact Statement for Channel Islands National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Manjot Nanner, 32, a resident of Fresno and Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Vernon Collier, a 28 year old, Mobile, Alabama resident, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number in front of Judge Callie Granade. Collier was also sentenced to 3 years of supervised release and ordered to pay a special assessment fee of $100.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Late this afternoon a federal jury returned a verdict finding Antonio Gutierrez, 44, of Albuquerque, N.M., guilty on three production of child pornography charges after a five-day trial. The announcement was made by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, Special Agent Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division and Albuquerque Police Chief Allen Banks.

By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Region 5 News Release: 14-116-CHI. Jan. 27, 2014. Contact: Scott Allen Rhonda Burke. Phone: 312-353-6976. Email: allen.scott@dol.gov burke.rhonda@dol.gov. CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has established an alliance with the Chicago Roofing Contractors...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JOEL DEVON WILLIAMS, 27,of Snow Hill, North Carolina, to 72 months in prison and 3 years of supervised released for distribution of crack cocaine and possession of firearm by a convicted felon. WILLIAMS previously pled guilty to these charges on Oct. 28, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: On Jan. 27, 2014, Angie Ray Shera, 39, formerly of Beatrice, Nebraska, was sentenced to six years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Following the prison term, Shera will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Travis.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Presidential Ally Moran on the State of Obamacare: “I don’t think we’re going to get enough young people signing up to make this bill work"

By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Bill Reforms Agriculture Policy, Reduces Deficit; Grows Agriculture Economy
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Shawn Cameron, 36, his wife Vanessa Mojarro Cameron, 26, and Jonathan Mojarro, 24, all of Hanford, and Carlos Enriquez, 34, of Lemoore, pleaded guilty today to drug trafficking offenses, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - William Hird, 68, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to taking part in a fraud scheme involving judges at the former Philadelphia Traffic Court. Hird, who was Director of Records at the time, pleaded guilty to 18 counts, including conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today’s sentencing of Brandon Golson for possession with intent to deliver heroin. Chief Judge Robert C. Chambers imposed a sentence of 87 months for Golson’s role in a drug conspiracy that included transporting heroin and oxycodone from Detroit, Michigan for sale in Huntington. Golson pleaded guilty on October 7, 2013 to possession with intent to deliver heroin.