News from January 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) is conducting a public workshop to develop management alternatives for the Muir/Strentzel gravesite in Martinez, California on Saturday, February 22. The workshop will be held from 10 AM to 12 PM in the multipurpose room in John Swett Elementary School, located at 4955 Alhambra Valley Road, Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Ignacio Lazcano-Acosta, 52, of Obion County, Tennessee was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison for his role in one of the largest marijuana grow operations ever discovered in the state of Tennessee, announced United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Gerald Edwin Farmer, aka HK, 24, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced today to 210 months (17 ½ years) in prison, announced David Rivera, U. S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Stephen Page, 21, and James Brewer, 27, both of Washington, D.C., were sentenced today to decades in prison for the 2011 slaying of a 71-year-old man in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following felony sentencings that occurred this week before District Judge Theresa L. Springmann.
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: PITTSBURGH - On Jan. 16, a Mercer County teen pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court on charges of violating federal Hobbs Act conspiracy and Hobbs Act robbery laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - This morning FBI agents in the Tampa area arrested Jorge Jimenez for his violation of 18 U.S.C. section 875(c) for sending threatening interstate communications to J.P., an adult male residing in Puerto Rico, via Facebook, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Arizona Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet in Phoenix on January 29-30, 2014. Established in 1995, the statewide citizen-based council provides advice to the BLM on land management programs and issues affecting public lands in Arizona. In addition, the RAC...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen Livermont announces that America’s 401 national parks will offer free admission on nine days in 2014, including several holidays! The 2014 entrance fee-free days are.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former loan officer from Henderson, Nev., who convinced at least 16 victims to give him money for a high yield investment scheme involving the foreign currency exchange market, was sentenced today to 6½ years in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay over $830,000 in restitution for his guilty pleas to federal fraud and money laundering charges, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: The Defendant Allegedly Posed As A Young Woman On Social Media To Trick Minors Into Engaging In Sexually Explicit Conduct, Which He Secretly Recorded And Threatened To Disseminate Unless The Minors Created Additional Pornographic Videos.
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, JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER BIRDTAIL, 37, of Dodson, Montana, was sentenced to a term of 264 months imprisonment, a life term of supervised release, and a special assessment of $100. Birdtail was sentenced in connection with his May 16, 2013, guilty plea to abusive sexual contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -David J. Brown, Sr., 49, the operator of an electronics store in Northwest Washington, has been found guilty by a jury of charges stemming from the recovery of stolen property from his place of business, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. A Lawrence man was charged today with robbing a bank in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Elmora, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation on his conviction of conspiracy to manufacture and possess marijuana plants, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Martin Christopher Edwards of Napa, Calif., was apprehended on Jan. 15, 2014, in Mexico and deported to the United States to face federal charges, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that David E. Cox, age 47, of Post Falls, Idaho, was found guilty by a federal jury in Rapid City, South Dakota, of 3 counts of Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in (ASAC) of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and Scott Ellington, District Prosecuting Attorney for the Second Judicial District of Arkansas; announced the unsealing of a 62-count indictment charging multiple defendants in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, with multiple drug charges.
