News published on Federal Newswire in June 2014

News from June 2014


News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Texas resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Scranton, before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, to the charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and was then sentenced to serve 36 months in prison.


News Release: Motorists may experience a minor travel delay along Highway 26/89/191 (Hwy 89) from Moran Junction to the Elk Ranch flats (one mile south of the junction) on Saturday morning, June 7, between the hours of 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. The temporary delay will allow for the safe movement of cattle from the Pinto Ranch of Buffalo Valley to the Elk Ranch pastures, that lie south of Moran Junction and the Buffalo Fork River.


Dallas Man Admits Sex Trafficking Of A Minor Child

News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who met a 15-year-old female run-away at a bus station, took her, and made her engage in sex acts for money, pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.


News Release: PADUCAH, Kentucky -Senior United States District Judge Thomas B. Russell sentenced a Fulton, Kentucky, man to 110 months in prison followed by a three-year term of Supervised Release for violating federal drug trafficking and gun laws, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. White will serve the federal sentence after he completes a current state sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Adlyn Marie Echevarria Robles, 21, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to bank robbery before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.


NOAA study shows educating, warning, and citing speeding mariners helps lower ship speeds in areas with endangered North Atlantic Right Whales

News Release: A NOAA regulation, instituted in December 2008, requires vessels 65 feet or greater in length to travel at speeds of 10 knots or less in areas seasonally occupied by the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.


Former DISD Employee And Co-Conspirator Arrested On Mail Fraud Conspiracy

News Release: DALLAS - A former employee with the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) and her co-conspirator were arrested by U.S. Postal Inspectors this morning in Irving, Texas, on an indictment returned by a federal grand jury last month charging each of them with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.


Dubuque Man Sentenced To Ten Years' Imprisonment For Unlawful Possession Of A Firearm By A Felon

News Release: A man who shot someone in a bar fight was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison.


News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On June 2, 2014, Robert Wayne Locklear, 45, of Greeneville, Tenn., pleaded guilty to one count of a conspiracy to distribute a quantity of cocaine base (“crack") and one count of a conspiracy to commit health care fraud before the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge. Sentencing was scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Sept. 22, 2014.


Gang Member Sentenced To 84 Months In Prison For Drug Charges

News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Anthony Rennie Jones, 29, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced to 84 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Jones at the federal courthouse in Boise. Jones, a documented member of a criminal gang, pleaded guilty to the charges on Jan. 15, 2014.


News Release: Geraldine Jones, 68, of Philadelphia, was charged by information, filed on May 30, 2014, with one count of theft of government funds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, the defendant received retirement and pension benefits from the Social Security Administration...


St. Mary’s County Man Sentenced To Over 19 Years In Prison For Producing Child Pornography

News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Ronald Davis Pope, age 49, of Mechanicsville, Maryland, today to 235 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography. Chief Judge Chasanow ordered that upon his release from prison...


News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.


News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANGEL L. MELENDEZ, 27, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.


U.S. Attorney Hosts Law Enforcement Conference on Cyber Threats

News Release: Law Enforcement Officers From Across The Country Briefed On Latest Threats.


Owners Of Elizabethtown Hematology Oncology, PLC Agree To Pay Over $3.7 Million To Settle False Billings To Government Health Care Programs

News Release: - United States alleges owners engaged in improper conduct by extending chemotherapy treatment times to maximize reimbursements and inappropriately billing office visits for infusion therapies.


Charleston Felon Sentenced To Prison For Illegal Possession Of Firearms

News Release: CHARLESTON, W. Va. - Keary A. Drake, 45, of Charleston, was sentenced today to five months in prison followed by five months of home confinement for being a felon in illegal possession of firearms, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. The firearms have been returned to their lawful owner.


Local Doctor and Four Others Charged With Defrauding Medicare Of Nearly $3 Million

News Release: An Indictment Is An Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence.


Fall River Gang Leader Sentenced To 22 Years

News Release: BOSTON - Following his conviction on drug and weapons charges, an armed career criminal affiliated with the Bloods street gang was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison.


All-Natural Mixture Yields Promising Fire Retardant

News Release: What sounds like fixings for a wizard's potion-a dash of clay, a dab of fiber from crab shells, and a dollop of DNA-actually are the ingredients of promising green fire retardants invented by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).