News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - On Feb. 28, 2014, after deliberating approximately one hour, a federal jury of nine men and three women found Thomas David Steiner guilty of one count of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joe Herrera, Jr., 44, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Thoreau, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 24 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a sawed-off shotgun that was not registered to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle, of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on March 11, 2014, Michael Wayne Lowstetter (age: 35) of Xenia, Ohio (formerly of Union Grove, Wisconsin) was sentenced to 30 months in a federal prison by United States District Judge Charles N. Clevert, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - John Bariana, 41, of Mullica Hill, NJ, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for his role in a massive mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in at least 35 fraudulent mortgage loans worth more than $10 million. Bariana pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2010 to 12 counts. In addition to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Theft From an Indian Tribal Organization was sentenced on March 10, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced an Indictment was filed against Alejandro Morillo-Bedolla, age 36, of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Donovan F. Muskett, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Navajo, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to seven years in federal prison for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Muskett will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence. He also was ordered to pay $668.40 to the victim of his crime.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed H. Res. 506, a bipartisan resolution authored by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which honors the life and legacy of Václav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic and lifelong democracy activist. The resolution also provides authorization for a bust of Václav Havel to be displayed in the United States Capitol.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The owner of Kenal Enterprises LLC was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for filing false income tax returns for several years, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, District of New Jersey, and Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Fairbanks, AK- Applications are due this Friday for the Bureau of Land Management’s new Artist-in-Residence program in Interior Alaska. The BLM will be hosting an artist for a week in a cabin in the White Mountains National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Guanajuato, Mexico has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Conway, Massachusetts businessman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for using $2.6 million of company funds to pay for personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a former Childersburg City Councilwoman to nearly three years in prison for bank fraud and laundering nearly $1 million from SouthFirst Bank, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Craig Caldwell, and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Shamarr Joel Pitts, 25, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment with one count of possession of contraband in prison, on or about Nov. 14, 2013, in the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that Pitts possessed a sharp metal object with a handle made of cloth wrapped with a shoelace that was an object designed or intended to be used as a weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota, sitting in Minneapolis, recently returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation, and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Any sentence is determined by a federal district judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Efrain Urena, a/k/a "Cheech", of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced by United States District Judge George Z. Singal to 12 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Urena pleaded guilty to the offense on October 9, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - David Ruem, 32, of Tacoma, Wash., pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to distribute oxycodone and hydrocodone, one count of conspiring to structure cash deposits, and one count of aggravated structuring.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Jerold J. Cohen, 78, of Bala Cynwyd, PA, was charged today by Information with conspiracy, aggravated structuring of financial transactions, and filing false tax returns, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The Information charges that Cohen operated a sports bookmaking operation and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: "There's Something for Everyone". Though spoken well over 100 years ago, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park staff, in planning for this year's visitor programs, has taken to heart the following directive from famed naturalist John Muir: "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Washington D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, hailed today’s overwhelming passage by the House, 402-7, of H.Res. 499, which condemns the recent violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity by Russia.
