News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, June 13, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On June 3, 2014, Adam M. Calvert, 30, of Herrin, was charged by indictment with conspiracy to distribute heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Two Orange County men were arrested this morning on federal drug trafficking charges that allege they were part of a far-reaching conspiracy to smuggle, manufacture and distribute millions of dollars’ worth of analogue drugs commonly called “spice" and “bath salts.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three members of a criminal street gang based at 14th and Girard Streets in Northwest Washington were sentenced today to decades-long prison terms on murder and other charges stemming from a conspiracy to assault, kill, and threaten their rivals and obstruct justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bismarck, North Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on June 9, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Michael Darnell Boswell, Jr., age 31, of Raleigh, North Carolina, today to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for interstate transportation of women for prostitution. Judge Motz ordered that upon his release...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Everglades and Biscayne National Parks Campaign to Improve Boating Safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - An individual who pled guilty to disclosure of procurement information and money laundering in connection with a procurement fraud case involving a military contract for services in Afghanistan has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Leigh Farrington Fiske pleaded guilty in federal court on June 11, 2014, to wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, Special Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Special Agent in Charge Scott O'Briant, and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Sunday Uwubiti (61 years old) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin was sentenced in federal court for aiding and assisting in the filing of false federal income tax returns. United States District Judge Rudolph T. Randa sentenced Uwubiti to twenty-four months in prison and ordered him to cooperate with the IRS. Judge Randa also placed Uwubiti on one year of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Robert B. Pressley, aged 35, of Leesburg, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Louis Sands to serve 12 years (151 months) in federal prison for distribution of child pornography. The sentence was pronounced on June 12, 2014, in Albany, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - United States Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that the United States Marshals Service recently sold one of the real properties forfeited in the Robert Wayne Baucum criminal case. Baucum and four other defendants were charged and pled to conspiracy to manufacture, and possess with...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - Have you ever seen Jupiter and its four moons or the rings around Saturn? Now is your chance! Carlsbad Caverns National Park invites the public to a "Star Party" on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 8:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Daniel M. Nelson, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Lon O. Hocker Award in recognition of his outstanding trial work in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Ryan P. Lynch, Acting Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced nine research and development projects that will receive funding to support solid-state lighting (SSL) core technology research and product development. The projects will help accelerate the development of high-quality light-emitting diode (LED) and organic light-emitting...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week on the status of the Coast Guard’s current acquisition program to replace aging vessels and aircraft, and the program’s sustainability.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: (COLUMBIA, S.C -.) -United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Sean Doctor, age 30, of North Charleston, South Carolina was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, possession of a weapon with a convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Michael Minas, 49, of Boise, Idaho, appeared today in federal court in Boise on an indictment charging him with seventeen counts of distributing a controlled substance, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. He was arrested yesterday morning outside of his medical practice in Eagle. Trial is set for Aug. 12, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that in federal court on June 3, 2014, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced WILLIAM FERNANDO CARPIO, 37, to 37 months imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution to the United States Government in the amount of $1,012,875.06.
