News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: The mother was actually an Homeland Security Investigations undercover agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Abuse of pain medications like oxycodone continues to plague Georgia communities at epidemic levels and now accounts for six times more deaths than all of the traditional illegal drugs combined. The United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Georgia has enhanced its prosecution efforts on the prescription drug abuse problem as part of a broad effort to reverse this deadly trend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Larry Caleb Fish, age 21, of Ripley, Tenn., was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison on Thursday following his guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee and 25th District Attorney General Mike Dunavant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Larry Caleb Fish, age 21, of Ripley, Tenn., was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison on Thursday following his guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee and 25th District Attorney General Mike Dunavant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that YESID RIOS SUAREZ was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 54 years in prison for his role in overseeing the manufacture of tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine in clandestine laboratories in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Douglas Alan Butler, 55, a resident of Battle Creek, Mich., has been sentenced for traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Butler pleaded guilty Sept. 9, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Daniel Hebert, 40, of New Brunswick, Canada, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to importation of 100 kilograms or more of marijuana into the U.S. from Canada and failure to appear to attend required court proceedings. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, a $2,000,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that Alonzo Spencer of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced following a March 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being a felon in possession of ammunition. Spencer was previously convicted in Mobile County Circuit Court...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host a book signing with Anna Egan Smucker, author of the children’s book To Keep the South Manitou Light, at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, June 27, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a “Jury Duty Scam" has again been reported in Connecticut. The Clerk’s Office for the U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, June 27, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On June 25, 2014, Willie L. Carroll, a fifty year old Belleville, Illinois, man pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, to failure to register as a sex offender, the United...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding yesterday's decision by the Gulf of Mexico Regional Fishery Management Council (RFMC) to postpone consideration of Amendment 28, which would update the red snapper allocations for the first time in over 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Coeur d'Alene B Paul Lee Oatman, 33 of Kamiah, Idaho, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Coeur d'Alene for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Defendants filed false insurance claims for over $100,000 after 2009 fire destroyed business.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Volunteers Honored with National Award. Cabrillo National Monument Receives the Hartzog Park Volunteer Program Award. San Diego, CA- In a special ceremony held in Washington DC on June 25, 2014, the volunteer program at Cabrillo National Monument (NM) received the prestigious George and Helen Hartzog...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The United States Attorney’s Office will hold a press conference in Dothan, Alabama to announce several indictments and arrests concerning illegal firearms sales at a single location in the Dothan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge late Thursday sentenced a former Birmingham attorney to five years and 11 months in prison for a securities fraud scheme through which he took more than $2.8 million from 12 investors and spent it on a lavish home, private jets, championship football trips and island vacations, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and Alabama Securities Commission Director Joseph Borg.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - On July 4, 1776, the signing of the Declaration of Independence signaled the final break between the 13 Colonies and Great Britain. It is a date celebrated across the United States and known throughout the world as the birth of a new kind of government "of, for and by the people.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Defendant faces a mandatory minimum of 5 years to life consecutive to any other sentence for possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 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, Ronald J. Verrochio, Postal Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Drew J. Breakspear, Commissioner...
