News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Mercer County resident pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park is one of 39 national parks selected to receive a 2014 America's Best Idea grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks. Inspired by Ken Burns' critically acclaimed documentary "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," this program...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A Carthage, Texas, man was sentenced to 120 months in prison and five years of supervised release for attempting to have sex with an underage girl, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Pocatello - Jeramie McGuire, 36, of Big Piney, Wyoming, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. United States District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered McGuire to serve ten years of supervised release. McGuire pleaded guilty to the charge on April 14, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: War in the Pacific National Historical Park is altering the schedule of planned events to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Battle for Guam. Although the “Fireside Chat" event on July 19 at Asan Beach will proceed as planned, the unveiling of the new Memorial Wall of Names at the Asan Bay Overlook on July 20 is cancelled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Deundra Milhouse and Fredrick Hill, both residents of Alabama, were sentenced today in separate stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) cases, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Tamara Ashford of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama. Milhouse was sentenced to 81 months in prison and Hill was sentenced to 74 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Last week in federal court, a man pleaded guilty to submitting false tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service. On July 1, 2014, Dusten Lee Barth pleaded guilty to one count of False Claims and one count of Aggravated Identity Theft. Barth, who was indicted on March 3, 2014, entered his guilty plea before United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: ROMAN SELEZNEV, a Russian national indicted in the Western District of Washington for a computer hacking scheme that compromised the financial accounts of credit card customers, was arrested in Guam on July 6, 2014 by law enforcement agents from the U.S. Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Terrill Eugene Brown, 61, of Visalia, pleaded guilty today to causing the distribution and dispensing of oxycodone and structuring financial transactions to evade a reporting requirement. In addition, Brown agreed to forfeit more than $182,000 and three BMW sedans that were involved in or obtained as a result of his criminal activity.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Panel on Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) will hold a roundtable policy discussion Thursday to explore the potential for P3s for America’s ports and waterways.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Andrew Lee Siegel, a Dallas attorney, appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney and pleaded guilty to an information charging one count of felony criminal infringement of a copyright, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia,July 8, 2014- The West Virginia Department of Highways and the Federal Highways Administration is replacing the Thomas Buford Pugh Memorial Bridge on Route 41 in the town of Prince. Construction on the bridge will require temporary full river traffic closures and long term river detours between Prince and McCreery on the New River. Construction will begin this month, and the detour will remain in effect for the duration of the project until July 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Defendant Threatened Another Tribal Member With Assault Rifle During An Argument.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Grab your flashlight and experience a lighthouse at night by joining the National Park Service on a Full Moon Climb at the Cape Hatteras or Bodie Island Lighthouse on Saturday, July 12, 2014.Hear stories of keepers of old, view the working light close up in the lantern room, and catch the reflection...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County - Marin County was awarded $15 million in federal funds through the Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) for improvements to approximately 12 miles of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Point Reyes National Seashore (the Seashore) in Marin County. [ - 108 PDF] As...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Johnny Richard Rowe, of Bluewell, Mercer County, West Virginia, was sentenced today to eight years and a month in prison for a federal child pornography offense, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Rowe, 61, previously pleaded guilty in January to possessing child pornography. Rowe’s sentence was handed down by Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Edward J. Johnson, age 41 of Columbus, Nebraska, was sentenced in the United States District Court in Omaha for the distribution and possession of child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief Judge, sentenced Johnson to 96 months imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced today, in federal court in Wilkes-Barre, by United States District Judge A. Richard Caputo, to serve 18 months in prison on a charge of using a communication device to facilitate heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Tyrone King, a/k/a “Tyrone Leonard," age 39, of Orangeburg, South Carolina, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a). United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: “While we are disappointed with the verdict on the sole count that the jury was permitted to consider, we respect the jury trial system whatever the outcome, and we thank the jury for their service. This Office maintains its faith in the criminal justice system, a system that has resulted in the convictions...
