News from January 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Representative Dan Benishek (R-MI) urged increased funding levels for critical measures that combat the illegal timber trade, which drains $1 billion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Iveliza Perez, 25, of Camden, NJ, pleaded guilty today to attempting to smuggle approximately two kilograms of cocaine into the United States from Jamaica using wedge heels. Perez was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 or more grams of cocaine. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 23, 2014. Perez faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison with a maximum possible sentence of 40 years.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 204,000 metric tons of corn to Egypt during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. A Kechi man was charged today with distributing child pornography, mainly from his computer at work, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: On Jan. 17, 2014, Daniel Loden, 30, of Grand Tower, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Former Reptile Store Operator Illegally Exported Domestic Species To Hong Kong And Imported Asian Species.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Tracy, California, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number was sentenced on Jan. 13, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service Outer Banks Group Know Your Park citizen science program series continues this winter with upcoming scheduled presentations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two men from St. Francis, South Dakota, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder, Aiding and Abetting, and a Sioux City, Iowa, woman has been charged with Accessory After the Fact.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, TEDDY DRYDEN MITCHELL, 59, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve 27 months in federal prison for running an illegal gambling operation, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Raymond Camacho, a/k/a Jesus Mendoza-Nunez, 58, a Mexican national, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 360 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Camacho will be deported...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Defendant victimized 13-year-old boy and another minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Jan. 17, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, ROBERT JAMES SCHEAFFER, JR., 49, of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, was sentenced to a term of 34 months imprisonment, five years supervised release, and a special assessment of $100.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field office, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: A Highland, Illinois, resident pled guilty on Jan. 17, 2014, to a two-count Indictment, charging him, in Count 1, with Transportation of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct, and, in Count 2, with Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: A section of stone wall on the upstream side of the Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Battlefield has fallen into Antietam Creek, and the National Park Service has temporarily closed this pedestrian bridge. National Park Service engineers will conduct a preliminary evaluation of the bridge next week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Kadoka, South Dakota, man convicted of Destruction of Government Property was sentenced on Jan. 13, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sean Costigan, 51, of Pawtucket, was ordered detained in federal custody today by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan on federal drug trafficking charges, following an investigation by the Warwick Police Narcotics Unit and the R.I. DEA Drug Task Force into the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Stuart C. Cole, 59, of St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, entered a plea of guilty on Jan. 13, 2014, to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Mr. Cole entered his plea of guilty before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Hugh Lawson in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Oglala, South Dakota, woman convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on Jan. 10, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
