News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Case Is One of many Prosecuted by United States Attorney Wigginton’s Hobbs Act Robbery Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Jose Rodrigo Arechiga-Gamboa, also known as “Chino Antrax," was formally extradited to the United States by the Netherlands today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Randall Martinez was sentenced late yesterday to 264 months in prison by United States District Judge Sandra L. Townes at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn. Previously, Martinez pleaded guilty to robbery conspiracy, cocaine trafficking conspiracy, and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that on July 9, 2014, Edward A. Banks, 42, pled guilty to a one-count indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -Tianna Edwards, 32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Stephen Torres of Puerto Rico to 33 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Phillip J. Colwell, 54, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography, transmitting obscene matter to a minor, and using a cellphone to entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual conduct, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: In announcing this mark up, Mr. Chairman, you argued that patching the Highway Trust Fund through next May would give this and other committees “the full influence they deserve" in crafting a long-term solution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On July 10, 2014, Adam Winters, 26, of Robins, Tenn., pleaded guilty to an information charging him with transmitting communications containing threats to injure the reputation of Babcock and Wilcox, Y-12, LLC., in interstate and foreign commerce with intent to extort money and other...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights or local charges against officers from the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police who were involved in the fatal shooting of Miriam Carey on Oct. 3, 2013, just blocks from the U.S. Capitol.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that MEGAN LEE McMAHAN, age 37, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 2 years of probation for Embezzlement Of Mail By Postal Employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DOMINICK RIBUSTELLO, 53, of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Jacques Maddox (22, Ocoee) guilty of one count of aiding and abetting the attempted robbery of a Walgreens store located at 5501 South Kirkman Road in Orlando. Maddox faces a maximum penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 10, 2014. Maddox was indicted on April 2, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez announced today that Copar Pumice Company, Inc., a mining company with a principal place of business in Rio Arriba County, N.M., and the owners of Copar and its affiliated companies (Copar), have paid $2.25 million to the U.S. Government to settle a civil...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee today advanced three bipartisan bills to reform the nation’s higher education system. As part of an effort to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, the legislative proposals will support innovation, strengthen transparency, and enhance financial counseling.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Labor, Education, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Al Franken (D-MN) to introduce legislation to curb abuses that deprive employees and...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Nevada is accepting submissions for its second photo contest through August 31. Information on the rules and how to submit photos can be found at.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) was joined by 19 other Democrats in introducing the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act (H.R. 5060), legislation that would reform the General Mining Act of 1872 to protect taxpayers and the environment and bring hardrock mining into the 21st Century. DeFazio’s legislation builds off of a 2007 bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Recently in federal court, four defendants were charged with heroin distribution in two separate indictments. The first indictment charges Francisco James Bell, 38, of Madison, WI, with two counts of Distribution of Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against a Seattle man who was serving a federal prison sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution Herlong in Lassen County, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
