News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - At a sentencing hearing held today before U.S. District Judge John McBryde, Michelle Johnson was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution, following her guilty plea in August 2013 to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that Douglas Edward Henderson, 51, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty today to an Information charging him with five counts of submitting a false tax return, two counts of aiding in the preparation of a false tax return, one count of mail fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Michael Partain, 44, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha for distributing child pornography. The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior District Court Judge, sentenced Partain to seven years in prison. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison Partain will be on supervised release for five years and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Yates, North Dakota, man, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Person Incapable of Consent.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: Eating breakfast-or skipping it-may significantly influence a child's ability to solve math problems, according to a study funded by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). This is among the new nutrition and health findings noted in the most recent issue of the ARS Food and Nutrition Research Briefs and its Spanish-language edition (Informe de investigaciones de alimentos y nutrición).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Lashanda E. Harris, 38, of Natchitoches, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell, to 18 months in prison and a year of supervised release for aiding and assisting in making and subscribing a false return. She was also ordered to pay $101,795 in restitution. Harris pleaded guilty Oct. 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: A Puyallup, Washington man who shot and killed two men who had entered the garage where he was growing marijuana, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for manufacturing marijuana and possession of a firearm in relation to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two men from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A father and son were indicted on federal charges for allegedly operating a nationwide mail order synthetic marijuana business in the south suburbs that netted them approximately $2 million over three years, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Following an undercover investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Russian national living in New York was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conspiring with others to hack into retail brokerage accounts and execute sham trades, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - The former manager of a defunct Chicago-based real estate company that acquired and managed hotels, including the Blake Hotel in Chicago and others in South Florida, was sentenced today to more than six years in federal prison for evading more than $1.7 million in federal income taxes. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Shabazz Thompson, 20, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 56 months in prison on charges stemming from two robberies that took place in Northeast Washington within a three-week period last fall, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Nine Brockton men have been charged with federal and state narcotics and firearms charges announced John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the sentence of life imprisonment imposed by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley on Krishna Mote for his participation in a drug trafficking conspiracy that was responsible for distributing large amounts of crack cocaine in the Lehighton area of Northeastern Pennsylvania between 2005 and 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - John Cunningham, 26, of Hagerstown, Md., was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced January 8, 2014, to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man who sold cocaine base, commonly known as crack cocaine, to an informant in January of 2012 on Central Avenue in Charleston was sentenced today to 262 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Marvin Lee Garrett, 33, was convicted at trial in October of 2012 for distributing crack cocaine. Garrett is a career offender, having at least two prior convictions for drug offenses and crimes of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: Faces At Least Ten Years in Prison.
