News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that David Allen Dinsbeer (37) today pleaded guilty to 16 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Each count carries a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison. Dinsbeer is currently released on bond, pending a sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: BEAVER, W.Va. - Leah Kirk, age 21, was sentenced today in Beckley, West Virginia, by United States District Court Judge Irene C. Berger to three years of probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. Kirk previously pleaded guilty in November 2013 to distributing oxycodone, a powerful...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department has announced the winners of the third annual Better Buildings Case Competition, which challenges collegiate teams to present unique and innovative solutions for reducing energy waste and improving the efficiency of our nation’s homes and commercial buildings to industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: CHRISTOPHER M. SCHWAB, age 24, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty today to four counts of producing child pornography involving four different minor victims, one count of distributing child pornography and one count of receiving child pornography, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and a senior member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, welcomed the Administration’s launch of the Climate Data Initiative. The initiative, which is part of the President’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL LOTZ, 45, of Stamford, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 50 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing and selling firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Trent Ashley Willis, 37, formerly of Corpus Christi, has been ordered to prison for 10 years following his conviction of distributing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Willis pleaded guilty Jan, 8, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.,On Tuesday, March 18 at approximately 6:30 p.m. the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call via satellite phone reporting a fatality on the Colorado River. The victim, a 31 year old male, was part of a private river trip of nine self-supported kayakers nearing the end of a 12 day river trip.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Jose Luis Ariciaga-Banda, 28, of Mexico, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon, possession of a firearm and ammunition by an illegal alien, possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, and illegal reentry into the United States after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDY GOMEZ, 35, of East Hampton, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that David J. Renz, 30, of North Syracuse was sentenced in federal court in Syracuse today on one count of receiving and five counts of possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Raymond Antoine Scott, Jr., 37, of Lapwai, Idaho, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene yesterday for first degree murder, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Scott is currently being held at the Yakama Tribal Jail in Toppenish, Washington. An initial appearance in federal court has not been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Bobby Charles Taylor, a/k/a “Big Fifty", aged 38, of Leary, Georgia, was sentenced on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, to serve 30 years imprisonment in a case of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable W. Louis Sands, United States District Court Judge, in Albany, Georgia.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted the beginning of the application period for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Preparedness Grants program. Applicants must submit their applications to FEMA...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations of sorghum producers to serve on the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Buchheit Inc., Perryville, Mo., has paid $550 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - John Wilhelm Myre, 55, of Garretson, South Dakota, pleaded guilty yesterday to negligent endangerment under the Clean Air Act, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Myre was charged by information on Feb. 3, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 43-year-old Plano, Texas man has been sentenced for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. and Acting Assistant Attorney General Robert G. Dreher, of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced today that the Tonawanda Coke Corporation, which was convicted of 11 counts of violating the Clean...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A McAllen federal grand jury has arrested Elva Navarro, 37, of Hidalgo, for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violations in relation to the injection of unapproved substances, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
