News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced today after molesting and taking sexually explicit pictures of a child for two years, WAYLON NOVELLE BLOUNT, 36, of Wolf Point, was sentenced in federal court on March 18, 2014, to ten and a half years in prison and fifteen years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Brian M. Morris.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Bryce Canyon National Park Seeks Public Input on Proposed Change in Rules for Private Horseback Riding.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jewell Wiggins, 46, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm while being a convicted felon, was sentenced to 188 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of March 24, 2014. The committee will consider draft legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, review H.R. 6, a bill to expedite exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) to our allies, and discuss the shortage of dedicated psychiatric beds available to treat patients suffering from serious mental illnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Crockett, 29, of Kansas City, Missouri, was charged today by Information with attempting to intentionally damage a computer, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were charged yesterday in connection with the attempted robbery, assault and kidnapping of a U.S. Postal letter carrier.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Salomon Mejia Preciado, age 31, was sentenced to 47months imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to a consecutive sentence of 9 months imprisonment for violating a condition of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. March 24: Live Webinar on the Administration of the Wave Energy Converter Prize Funding Opportunity Announcement. Webinar Sponsor: EERE Water Power Program. The Energy Department will present a live webcast titled "Applying for the Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Prize Funding Opportunity"...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that TYRELL LEE BALIBARDIN, 22, of Browning, Montana, was sentenced to a term of 30 months imprisonment, five years supervised release, and a special assessment of $100 during a federal court hearing in Great Falls, Montana, on March 18, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a criminal information was filed against Rene Opre, age 55, of Toledo, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: DENVER -Tim Schwartz, of Aurora, Colorado, appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge this afternoon and was advised that on March 11, 2014, a federal grand jury in Denver, returned a one count indictment, charging him with mailing threatening communications, the United States Attorney’s Office, the U.S.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement today after the Department of Education (ED) released its Civil Rights Data Collection for the 2011-2012 school year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Stephen Gooden, 40, of Stockton, was sentenced on Thursday by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine for possessing a machine gun, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Gooden and Luis ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that SEAN MICHAEL VAIRA, 30, of Billings, was sentenced to 37 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Susan Watters on March 13, 2014. The defendant previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Brenda Joyce Davidson, Gwendolyn Lockett, Sheryl Monique Taylor, and Keresa Foster, have been arraigned on indictments returned by a federal grand jury on March 12, 2014, charging them with accepting cash bribes in exchange for issuing Georgia car titles.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Lake County man is now facing federal charges for allegedly committing eight armed robberies, which netted more than $1,700, over 10 days last August of retail stores across Lake County and northern Cook County. In one of the robberies, shots were fired from the getaway car, but no one was...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On March 20, 2014, Eric L. Kellems, 43, of Madison, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on an indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eight defendants were arrested this week in a wide-ranging drug and gun trafficking investigation, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. A federal grand jury returned the indictments on March 13, 2014, charging the defendants with various drug and gun trafficking offenses. The indictments were unsealed following the arrests of each defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Alvin Dickson, 52, of Oakland, was arraigned in Fresno today on a federal indictment charging him with social security fraud and theft of government property, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Dickson was arrested at his home on March 5, 2014. He made his first court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu in Oakland.
