News from January 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office is seeking a campground host for the Zapata Falls Campground. Hosts are on-site ambassadors for the BLM, welcoming visitors, answering questions about Zapata Falls and the surrounding area, and acquainting visitors with campground amenities and rules. The BLM prefers one host for the entire season (mid-May through early October).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Patty Chen pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, to False Statement and Lacey Act violations for her involvement in illegally bringing wildlife into the United States from Ecuador, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Roman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Boston - One Dorchester man was arrested this morning and another remains a fugitive in connection with the attempted robbery, assault and kidnapping of a U.S. Postal letter carrier that took place just before Christmas. The federal criminal complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Boston yesterday and was unsealed today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The Drug Enforcement Administration presented Assistant U. S. Attorneys Verne Speirs and Gray Borden the Spartan Award, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney Middle District of Alabama. The Spartan award recognizes prosecutors for their dedication and extraordinary effort to investigate and prosecute large-scale drug dealers and money launderers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Rodolfo Aranda, 25, of Laredo, has been ordered to prison for possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Aranda pleaded guilty Sept. 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARMANDO BERMEJO, 27, a citizen of Mexico last residing in New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Former Baltimore Police officer Lamin Manneh, age 32, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to traveling across state lines and using the telephone and internet to operate a prostitution business.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -- Today, the National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historical Site and the Creative Media and Digital Culture (CMDC) Program at Washington State University Vancouver jointly announced the release of a new, free digital publication entitled The McLoughlin Family Collection: A Look Inside the Fort Vancouver Museum Collection.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - World-renowned fossils found locally at the Indian Springs Trace Fossil Site will be on display Jan. 24 through Feb. 14 in the BLM’s Royal Gorge Field Office’s front room.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Five members of an Idaho Falls area drug trafficking organization pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Pocatello, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Harold Thomas Barker, 59, of Rexburg, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully transferring firearms and distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Barker was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on May 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Defendant to Pay $102,836 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Conspired with Stafford doctor to distribute thousands of oxycodone pills.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Independence, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for an investment fraud scheme in which he stole $724,000 from 13 victims.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Dwayne H. Means, 46, of Cincinnati pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a loan to buy a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A man who victimized small businesses and churches nationwide, including three churches in Chicago, in a so-called “advance-fee" fraud scheme, was sentenced today to more than four years in federal prison after being convicted at trial last summer. Prosecutors said that the defendant, JAMAL...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Devereaux L. Davis, a 36-year old Columbia, Illinois, man was sentenced on Jan. 22, 2014, in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, on one count of to failure to register as a sex offender, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Davis was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Caleb Zachary Storey, 30, Cincinnati, with one count each of production of child pornography and possession of...