News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Late last Friday, a criminal complaint was unsealed charging MATTHEW LANE DURHAM, 19, from Edmond, Oklahoma, with traveling to Kenya to engage in illicit sexual conduct with underage children, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Darren Oliver Raymond Charles Defoe, age 40, a citizen and resident of Great Britain, today to a year and a day in prison for interstate transportation of property taken by fraud. Judge Titus also entered an order that Defoe pay $275,000 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: To support the fair sale of gaseous hydrogen as a vehicle fuel, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a prototype field test standard to test the accuracy of hydrogen fuel dispensers.* Once the standard is field tested, it will serve as a model for constructing similar devices for state weights and measures inspectors to use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Peterson Yazzie, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty today to a two-count felony information charging him with discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and stalking. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Yazzie will be sentenced to eleven years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Marvin Bowden, Jr., age 31, of Colmar Manor, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and for conspiracy to carry and use firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence and drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberty, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing $84,137 by spending his deceased mother’s Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: On Saturday, July 26, cultural practitioner Pi`ilani Lua will teach ti leaf lei making in the Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park. The activities are part of Hana No`eau, the park's new cultural demonstration series which features local residents.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that 565,063 visitors to Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in 2013 spent $16.3 million in communities near the park. That spending supported more than 200 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Victor Luetta Guzman, 60, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced to 108 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. Chief District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Guzman at the federal courthouse in Boise. Guzman pleaded guilty to the charges on April 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Grantham Armstrong Mitchell, 20, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 15 years in federal prison for production of child pornography and 7 years for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, July 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Dillion Wayne Bailey, 29, of Albion, Illinois, has been charged in United States District Court in Benton with possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Stephen R.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday, July 23 in Grand Junction to discuss sensitive resource issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a federal contract officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who conspired with a former assistant manager of a Bank of America branch in East Los Angeles was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for plotting a heist in which his one-time girlfriend wore a fake bomb to simulate a kidnapping to steal approximately $565,000 from the bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dorian Parsley, 44, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, solicitation of a bribe, and honest services fraud in connection with a scheme to give an unfair advantage to certain tow truck operators. Between February 2011 and December 2013, Parsley, a former Philadelphia Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Scott Israel...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Guy N. Martinez, 22, of Las Vegas, N.M., was arrested by the FBI on July 18, 2014, on federal child pornography charges. Martinez made his initial appearance in federal court earlier today, and remains in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for tomorrow morning.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Families and individuals of all ages are invited to the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park for a special "star viewing party" on Saturday July 26th.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Douglas Church, Zachary Smith, and Brianna Lowe, all of Elmira, N.Y., have been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to deal firearms without a license and possession of stolen firearms. In addition, defendants ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Arco, Idaho - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 200,525 visitors to Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in 2013 spent $6.6 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 94 jobs in the local area.
