News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Warren T. Wells, of Moscow, Pennsylvania, was charged today with theft in connection with an incident at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, on Dec. 13, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office and Andrew W. Vale the Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted 17 people in connection with a series of violent crimes including 12 unsolved murders as well as other attempted murders, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, extortion and robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: As digital technology transforms 21st century life, questions about privacy rights abound. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on one such question in late June: if you are arrested, can the police search your cell phone without first obtaining a warrant?
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: Hopewell Discovery Day 2014. Date: Saturday, July 12th 2014. Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Location: Mound City Group Visitor Center. Fees: No Fees. Activities and Events that you & your family can partake in: * Join park rangers on earthwork tours. * Visit a live archeological excavation. * Bring artifacts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Darrin Albert Searle, 44, of Loudon, TN, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison following his guilty plea to one-count of filing a false tax return, announced Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: Cheyenne, WY Man, formerly out of Havre, Montana, Convicted for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JILLIAN NICHOLS, a local paralegal, pled guilty to charges involving her attempt to defraud a law firm client by falsely representing that the prosecutor on the client’s criminal case had solicited a bribe. Nichols also pled guilty to charges that she lied to the FBI during their investigation of her illegal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Six sworn officers who were working in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department were found guilty today of obstruction of justice for interfering with a federal civil rights investigation into misconduct at the Men’s Central Jail. A federal jury determined that the defendants, including two lieutenants, attempted to influence witnesses, threatened an FBI agent with arrest and concealed an FBI informant who should have been turned over to federal authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joshua Andrews, 22, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a prison term of 41 ½ years for a 2010 murder that took place in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EDDIE HAMMETT, 50, of Stamford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a nearly $3 million fraud scheme that forced her employer into bankruptcy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: A Niles man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms, ammuntion and body armor, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: Zackery Lee Smock, age 36, from Anamosa, Iowa, pled guilty to one count of attempted manufacture of methamphetamine by a drug felon near a school on July 1, 2014, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An alien found in Beaver Falls, Pa., pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to time served (approximately five months) on his conviction of reentry of removed alien, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - RICHARD SADDLER owned Omicron Capital LLC, a local St. Louis company purportedly in the business of assisting customers in refinancing commercial and real estate loans.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: Orange-fleshed honeydew melon is a cross between cantaloupe and green-fleshed honeydew. Orange-fleshed honeydew melon is sweeter and stores longer than the typical cantaloupe. To learn more about the melons, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant physiologist Gene Lester and his colleagues measured the beta-carotene concentrations in orange-fleshed honeydew and cantaloupe melons grown under the same greenhouse conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Recently in federal court in Duluth, a Hibbing man was sentenced for damaging property belonging to the Fortune Bay Casino on the Bois Forte Indian Reservation. United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim sentenced Shane Alan Simonson, age 26, to 18 months in federal prison on June 27, 2014. Simonson, who was indicted on Aug. 21, 2013, pleaded guilty on Dec. 12, 2013 to one count of Criminal Damage of Property in the First Degree.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Eddie Hammett, 50, of Stamford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Calvin Jenkins, 24, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a 22-year prison term on charges stemming from two armed robberies using a stolen car in Northeast Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
