News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lonnie Ray Youngman, 45, pleaded guilty this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to an indictment charging him with assault with a dangerous weapon and domestic assault by a habitual offender. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that BRIAN VANACORE, 48, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Roderic J. Smith, 50, pleaded guilty today to charges of paying bribes to public officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Letters Went to U.S. Senators, Representatives, and Members of the Media.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Chou Vang, Vang Pao Yang, and Pao Vang of Eureka, Calif. pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco yesterday to willfully injuring federal property stemming from a marijuana grow the three men cultivated on protected federal lands, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - The National Park Service (NPS) announces that the reservation dates for the Great Island and Long Point cabins have been extended until Nov. 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), and Patrick Lynn, Chief, Davie Police Department, announce the indictment of Daniel Jonathan Gast, 28, of Plantation, on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma launched its official Twitter account with the aim of increasing the accessibility of news and information, announced U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Robert A. Anderson, 68, of Lucas, Ohio, was charged with producing, receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - After a two-day trial in District Court in St. Thomas, a federal jury on Tuesday found Tony Jefferson Browne, 31, guilty of 12 counts of federal child exploitation offenses involving four girls ranging from ages 12 to 17, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe, U.S. Immigration...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Alfredo Balestier-Sanchez, aka Negro, 32, of Woonsocket, was ordered detained today by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan on federal charges of possessing and trafficking fentanyl and heroin. Sanchez was arrested Tuesday evening by members of the Woonsocket Police...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Haleakalā National Park seeks cultural practitioners for a series of cultural demonstrations that will be offered in the Kīpahulu District of the park beginning in mid-June 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - Donald Post, of League City, 68, has entered a guilty plea to production and distribution of child pornography involving a four-year-old minor female as well as possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney John M. Bales and Jefferson County District Attorney Cory Crenshaw today announced the formation of a multi-jurisdictional Task Force. The mission of the Task Force will be to investigate and prosecute major crimes - more specifically, violent crime and crimes related to the abuse of public trust.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON Cydrisse Alvin, 33, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 35 years in prison on a charge of first-degree murder while armed for the June 2012 stabbing of her next-door neighbor, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Buffy Drake has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud by filing false federal tax returns claiming fraudulent refunds in excess of $2.5 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs held an oversight hearing entitled "National Fish Hatchery System: Strategic Hatchery and Workforce Planning Report." This hearing examined the importance of the National Fish Hatchery System and the negative effects that the recommendations, in the Strategic Hatchery and Workforce Planning Report, would have on American jobs and the economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury in San Francisco has found two individuals and one company guilty of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, bankruptcy fraud, tax evasion, and obstruction of justice for their roles in a long-running effort to obtain U.S. trade secrets for the benefit of companies...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Francis Aponte, 47, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. On June 17, 2012, Aponte was standing on the sidewalk near Indiana Avenue and 4th Street when two Philadelphia Police Officers spotted him shooting a gun into...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County man has been sentenced in federal court to 21 months imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
