News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vincent Petaccio, 60, of Levittown, Pa., pled guilty today to a federal charge of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Thursday, Mar. 27, 2014, Charles M. Jones III, former owner and president of Tennessee Guns International, Inc. (TGI), was sentenced in U.S. District Court to serve one year of probation and 100 hours of community service as a result of his felony conviction for importation of goods (firearms) by false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Sairam Enterprises Inc. LLC alleging that it discriminated against Jeffrey Crockett and his family on the basis of disability in violation of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Sairam Enterprises owns and operates the Days Inn and Conference Center Tulsa, a hotel in Tulsa, Okla.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: James Clement Will Serve 96 Months In Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Adrian Banks has been arraigned on federal charges relating to the manufacture of PCP which led to a dangerous house fire when the clandestine laboratory exploded. Coleman Warnock, a second defendant named in the indictment, is being sought by law enforcement.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: TEMPORARY CLOSURE MARCH 27-MAY 12 AT VIRGIN RIVER BASIN.
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed with overwhelming bipartisan support the Ukraine Support Act (H.R. 4278), introduced by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member. The legislation, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Cayla Lindsay, age 20, was sentenced today in Beckley, West Virginia, by United States District Court Judge Irene C. Berger to three years of probation, and 100 hours of community service. Lindsay previously plead guilty in December 2013 to distributing oxycodone, a powerful prescription...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Having blocked a vote in the House to extend unemployment benefits for nearly three months, House Republicans are now suggesting it is too late to help America's job seekers. Speaker Boehner says the bipartisan legislation that the Senate will take up this week is not "workable" because it attempts to retroactively restore those benefits. But a growing chorus of both Republicans and Democrats, and both federal and state officials, are saying that's not true...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 10th Street Gang member Tony Peebles, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Elias Karkalas, 50, a medical doctor who resides in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, was arrested yesterday on tax charges, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Karkalas owned and operated Upper Merion Family Practice P.C. The indictment, unsealed today, charges corrupt or forcible interference with the administration of Internal Revenue Laws, filing false individual and corporate tax returns, and failing to file personal and corporation tax returns.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today called on the Department of Energy’s inspector general to examine the leak of sensitive internal Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) information on potential physical vulnerabilities of the nation’s electric grid.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - TRINA TAHIR, 58, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to twenty-four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $382,290.82 in restitution for her role in obtaining mortgage loans fraudulently, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Darrell Mathis has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm during a drug transaction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - William Edward Richmond, 31, of Charleston, West Virginia, was sentenced to federal prison today for selling cocaine base, also known as “crack" on Charleston’s West Side, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. On June 6, 7, and 11, of 2013, drug investigators used an informant to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pa., was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, to 15 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of escaping from federal custody, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: MAR (ATLANTA) - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos have been convicted after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and operating a “pill mill" pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers. Votrobek had previously been acquitted in Florida of similar charges stemming from his ownership of a Florida pain clinic.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today spoke on the Senate floor about the irresponsible and dangerous leak of internal Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) information on potential vulnerabilities of the nation’s electric grid. Video and the full text of her comments are below.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Mark Edward Coulter, age 55, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, today to 210 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for bank robbery and attempted bank robbery. Judge Bredar enhanced Coulter’s sentence upon finding that he is a career offender based on previous convictions for malicious burning of another person’s personal property and for robbery, both in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Glen Livermont, Superintendent, at Pipestone National Monument, announces a presentation "Discover Minnesota" at the Pipestone National Monument Visitor Center, Pipestone, Minnesota, on Thursday, April 24th, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
