News published on Federal Newswire in January 2014

News from January 2014


Resident Of Wolfeboro Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Federal Employee Disability Benefit Program

News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Mark McLaughlin, 49, of Wolfeboro, has pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to making false statements to obtain federal employee disability benefits, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.


News Release: Website and Smartphone Application Violate Federal Law.


News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that shortly after Feb. 17, 2014, weather and conditions permitting, National Park Service fire management staff, as part of the Outer Banks Group Fire Management Plan, could conduct prescribed burning on Bodie Island within Cape Hatteras National Seashore.The planned burn will consist of approximately 2,220 acres located along either side of NC Highway 12, north of the intersection with Old Oregon Inlet Road.


Austin Area Doctor Indicted On Federal Drug Charges

News Release: In Austin this morning, 47-year-old Richard Edward Sofinowski surrendered to federal authorities to face federal drug trafficking charges announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent In Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division.


Jury Renders Guilty Verdicts In Township 37 Marijuana Grow Case

News Release: BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Malcolm French, 52, of Enfield; Rodney Russell, 50, of South Thomaston; Kendall Chase, 57, of Bradford; and Haynes Timberland, ...


Bakersfield Man Pleads Guilty To Receipt Of Child Pornography

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Bradley James Ghilarducci, 66, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


News Release: A first-of-its-kind inventory for wild and weedy relatives of important crops has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators.


Huntington Heroin Dealer Pleads Guilty In Federal Court

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that James Anthony Jones pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia to possession with the intent to deliver 100 grams or more of heroin.


Ceredo Woman Pleads Guilty To Federal Heroin Charge

News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Helen Louise Adkins, of Ceredo, pleaded guilty today in federal court to distributing heroin to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agent.


Nuestra Familia Leader And Three Associates Plead Guilty To Drug Trafficking

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.


News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that Tandy and Sandy Talada of Sayre, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to a felony criminal information charging tax fraud on Jan. 22, 2014 in Williamsport.


Man Sentenced For Scheme To Steal Fuel From National Guard

News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today’s sentencing of Charles Raymond Franklin, for his role in the theft of hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel from the National Guard’s Naval Special Warfare Ops Stock Program. The Naval Special Warfare Command (the Command) is a component...


Morrisville Man Sentenced To Years For Receiving Child Pornography

News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced BRUCE WILLIAM NOTT, 58, to 180 months imprisonment, followed by a life-term of supervised release and he is required to register as a Sex Offender.


Waterbury Man Sentenced To More Than Eight Years In Prison For Robbing Banks In Waterbury And New Britain

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR RAMOS, 32, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford...



Burr, Coburn, Hatch Unveil Obamacare Replacement Plan

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.), and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) unveiled the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act - a legislative plan that repeals Obamacare and then replaces it with common-sense, patient-centered reforms...


News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two members of the Mexican Mafia prison gang were found guilty on Jan. 27, 2014, on federal racketeering charges for overseeing the conduct of the main street gang in Ontario, California, a criminal enterprise that was responsible for numerous violent crimes and widespread drug trafficking.


Super Bowl Week — Chairman Royce Statement for 2 pm Hearing on Combating Human Trafficking at Major Sporting Events

News Release: Washington, D.C. - As Super Bowl XLVIII nears, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, reiterated his support for efforts to combat international human trafficking in an opening statement for today’s 2 p.m. subcommittee hearing entitled, “Lessons Learned from Super Bowl Preparations: Preventing International Human Trafficking at Major Sporting Events. ".


Huntington Bank Robber Sentenced To Nearly Six Years In Federal Prison

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.


Bakersfield Marijuana Dispensary Owner Arrested, Charged With Conspiring With Others To Distribute Methamphetamine And Marijuana

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Adam Christopher Vega, 30, of Bakersfield, was arrested late Friday in Bakersfield after being charged in a seven-count federal indictment alleging that he and four co-conspirators trafficked in methamphetamine and marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.