News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Fairbanks man has been sentenced in federal court for two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in furtherance of a murder-for-hire scheme. Eric Donald Grabber, age 57, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline, to 77 months in prison for his involvement in efforts to have a man in Indiana murdered.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: CARTAGENA, Colombia - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) coordinated training this week in Cartagena surrounding a new initiative that will help protect children from sex crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: A Massillon man was sentenced to more than three years in prison for defrauding four clients out of $442,072, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Elaine White, 70, formerly a resident of Toronto, Canada, and her husband, Cullen Johnson, 65, were both sentenced yesterday to a term of 66 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for their role in an international asset tracing scheme. In addition, both White and Johnson were ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,021,738.60.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that on Jan. 15, 2014, a federal grand jury in Greenville, North Carolina returned a two-count indictment charging DAVID McARTHUR KING, 24 of New Bern and THOMAS LEE CUTHBERTSON, JR., 24 also of New Bern with armed bank robbery and aiding...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Midland resident Corey Dean Farmer, age 37, will serve 151 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich, El Paso.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Ovell K. Harrison, 55, of Columbus, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 42 months in prison and ordered to pay $85,181.25 in restitution for fraud and identity theft he committed while Director of Education Services at the Columbus Urban...
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: St. Louis, MO - The owner and operator of a St. Louis County tax preparation service was indicted yesterday for filing false returns and stealing the identities of taxpayers. RONALD SHONIWA, of Florissant, faces one count of theft of government funds for filing 15 tax returns, which generated more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Jeffrey Stephen Horn, 43, of Phoenixville, PA, is charged by information, filed today, with distribution of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges Russell with one count of distributing child pornography between June 13 and June 17, 2012.
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. 16, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, JUAN SANCHEZ-GONZALEZ was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NORMAN BARNABY, 34, of Enfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Smith in Hartford...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Six residents of Western Pennsylvania and California pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to violate the federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today called on Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to reconsider her recent rejection of a land exchange in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to provide a life-saving road corridor for the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Custer, South Dakota, couple have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Destruction of Government Property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: OWENSBORO, Ky. - A Leitchfield, Kentucky man was sentenced to ten years in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release today, in United States District Court, before Chief District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., after pleading guilty to violating federal child pornography laws including the possession and distribution of child pornography announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
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 following statement regarding anti-Semitic actions of a member of the Ukrainian parliament from the Svoboda party.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: TULSA, OKLAHOMA- A Catoosa man was sentenced in Federal court today for a crime involving a plot to burn down his rental house for profit, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Recruited Members Of The Vietnamese Community To His Scheme With Lure Of Easy Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
