News from January 2014
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, David Edmond Trine, 37, of Great Falls, was sentenced to a term of 124 years imprisonment, four years supervised release, and a special assessment of $100. Trine was sentenced in connection with his Oct. 16, 2013, guilty plea to Conspiracy to Manufacture Methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - As the days begin to get longer and the Durango area is experiencing ‘spring-like’ weather conditions, outdoor enthusiasts are tempted to access trails on Perins, Twin Buttes, Animas City Mtn, Grandview and Skyline, among others. While getting out is great for mental and physical health...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Valdez man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for willful failure to file an income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - In the first sexual extortion - or "sextortion" - case ever prosecuted in the District of Puerto Rico, a man charged with coercing female minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct was charged by a grand jury with 26 additional counts of production of child pornography, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Louie Valdez, 61, pleaded guilty this morning to a federal assault charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Lewis Gibson, 29, of Memphis, TN, was sentenced yesterday to 210 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison for a firearms violation, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Robin Pavey, 45, of Washington Court House, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to submitting $312,868 in fraudulent claims for home health...
By State Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the below statement following the Ukrainian parliament’s passage of legislation which will seriously constrain fundamental rights and restrict civil liberties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a commercially guided helicopter-skiing operation SOUTHEAST BACKCOUNTRY ADVENTURES (“SEABA") located in Haines, Alaska, pled guilty in federal court in Anchorage to one count of trespassing on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The guilty plea was entered by part-owner Beb Anderson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Defendant targeted vulnerable properties, stole identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bertha Damon, 44, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Mentmore, N.M., was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her voluntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that defendant Scott Dees of Repton, Alabama was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $796,000 in restitution to his victims.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. January 23: Live Webinar on Instrumentation for Monitoring Marine Renewable Energy Devices. Webinar Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy Water Power Program. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "Instrumentation for Monitoring Marine Renewable Energy Devices" on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that three women from Kyle, South Dakota, and a man from Oglala, South Dakota, convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance were all sentenced this past week by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: A combination of NOAA polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites detected distress signals from emergency beacons carried by downed pilots, shipwrecked boaters and stranded hikers and relayed information about their location to first responders on the ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Jan. 15, 2014, Arlen McWain, 60, of Barre, Vermont was sentenced to time served after his guilty plea to a charge that he possessed explosive materials as a convicted felon in July 2012. At the time of sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office today announced the unsealing of an 11-count indictment by the federal grand jury in Harrisburg charging the following Williamsport and Philadelphia men with conspiracy to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and cocaine and other drug distribution charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg handed up a second-superseding indictment charging Maria Colvard, age 48, of Chambersburg, on Jan. 15, 2014, charging her with two counts of tampering with a witness in addition to previous charges of extortion, aiding and abetting false personation of an employee of the United States, and interference with commerce by threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Jesse Brister, aka “Bozo," was sentenced this morning, by Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, to 55 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2013 to one count of mailing threatening communications. Brister, 28, of Conroe, Texas, is presently in custody in the Texas prison system in an unrelated case. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
