News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Seven Colombian nationals were extradited to the United States to face charges relating to the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James Terry Watson.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: Visual Artist Trine Bumiller from Denver will continue to highlight this year's Art in the Park Program at Rocky Mountain National Park with presentations held July 2 and July 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on June 30, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jonathan A. Karcher, 21, of Penn Yan, N.Y., pleaded guilty to attempting to extort money from the Lyons National Bank in Penn Yan before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced terrorism, narcotics, and weapons charges against FLORINDO ELEUTERIO FLORES-HALA, a/k/a “Comrade Artemio," VICTOR QUISPE-PALOMINO...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: Albert A. Riccardi, 64, of Sewell, NJ, was charged today by Information with filing a false tax return, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The Information charges that from 2009 through 2012, Riccardi operated a sports bookmaking operation and accepted payments from his bettors in the...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: On June 25th, 2014, Glacier Bay National Park celebrated the Grand Opening of "Snow" the largest humpback whale skeleton exhibit in the United States. Her massive 3,729 pound skeleton is housed in a beautifully constructed outdoor pavilion just a short walk from the Glacier Bay Lodge. The return of Snow...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: A 17-count indictment was filed charging a Mentor man who owned and operated several granite businesses with defrauding investors out of more than $1 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Fred Masters, Jr., age 48, of Mason, Tenn., was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison following his guilty plea to one count of possessing equipment, chemicals, products, and materials that may be used to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man who is employed at the Spring Valley Montessori School in Las Vegas appeared in federal court this afternoon on charges that he received and possessed child pornography, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jon Hagstrom, 34, of North Hollywood, California, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire 126 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and more than 1000 kilograms of marijuana, conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An alien found in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served on his conviction of charge of Illegal Re-Entry After Deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded a 2014 Director's Partnership Award to the Gettysburg Foundation, an organization whose philanthropy, stewardship and active Friends group impacts thousands of Gettysburg visitors every day. The Gettysburg Foundation was recognized for its role in funding numerous...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Francisco R. Legaspi made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday morning for failing to appear for his sentencing on Jan. 28, 1993, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and IRS-CI Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kelvin L. Dickerson, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to committing a series of robberies in the summer of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine base, in the form commonly known as "crack," United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: Josh Jambon, 52, a resident of Grand Isle, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today in front of U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to two counts of federal civil rights violations, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that STACEY JACKSON, age 47, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to conspiracy to steal federal funds and demand kickbacks from a program receiving federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Baker County Sheriff Joey B. Dobson announce that Ashley Chase Lee (31, Alma, Georgia), Archie Crook (35, Nassau County), Robert...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: A man who failed to register as a sex offender was sentenced today to ten months in federal prison.
