News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jacob L. Peckham, age 25, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Chief United States District Court Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson sentenced Peckham to a five-year term of imprisonment and a three-year term of court supervision following release from Federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Charles Ray Benavidez, 33, an Aviation Ordnanceman (Second Class) stationed at the United States’ Naval Air Station in Lemoore, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 10 years for sex trafficking of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Franklin Stuart King (39, Interlachen) has pleaded guilty in United States District Court, in Jacksonville, to receiving child pornography over the Internet. King faces a mandatory minimum penalty of not less than...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced the recent sentencing of a group of targets in an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) prosecution focusing on methamphetamine production in Johnston, Sampson and Wayne Counties in the Eastern District of North Carolina. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Co-defendants Who Were Convicted at Trial are Awaiting Sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: This afternoon, 37-year-old former San Antonio Police Officer Curtis W. Lundy was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for theft of honest services by wire fraud announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse and San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana today announced the complete results of one of the largest online child exploitation investigations in the history of ICE, involving victims in 39 states and five countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced that Sarah Kate Henecke, 35, also known as Alessandra Valencia Toscanelli, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty today to making a false statement on a residential loan application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Henecke was arrested in Nevada on Dec. 11, 2013. She appeared today before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Pocatello. Sentencing is set for June 9, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service is extending the public comment period related to temporary restrictions on certain sport hunting practices in several national preserves in Alaska. Public comments on these provisions will be taken through April 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Co-defendants Robert Anthony Johnson, 33, of Fairview, Montana, and Brandy Rachelle Felts-Patelzik, 40, of Watford City, California, were sentenced today in United States District Court in Pocatello for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In the early hours of the morning, Nicholas Teausant, 20, of Acampo, Calif. was arrested near the Canadian border, in Blaine, Wash. He was charged today in a complaint containing a single count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: FARGO - Dominique Jason Flanigan pleaded guilty on March 17, 2014 to threatening a synagogue in Fargo in 2011, North Dakota U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Jocelyn Samuels announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that David Wendel Thompson (48, Seffner) was charged by a criminal complaint and arrested on Friday, March 14, 2014 for the enticement of minors. Thompson made his initial appearance today in Miami, Florida and is currently being detained. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, up to a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - As the reappearance of leaves on the trees outside denotes the arrival of warmer weather, the National Park Service would like to remind the public of the following seasonal changes to the floral decoration policy in Andersonville National Cemetery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Austin Serb, 20, Christopher Snyder, 24, and Andrew Colwell, 23, of Boise, Idaho, appeared in federal court on March 11, 2014, on a nine-count federal indictment charging them and eight others with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and heroin; distributing oxycodone, and distributing heroin.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the announcements of U.S. and EU sanctions against individuals responsible for Russian military aggression against Ukraine...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Pamela Smith, 57, of Barnard, pleaded guilty on March 12, 2014, in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge of wire fraud. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III released Smith on conditions pending sentencing, which has been set for July 8 in Brattleboro.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former assistant manager of a Bank of America branch in East Los Angeles and her onetime boyfriend were convicted today of plotting a heist in which the woman wore a fake bomb to simulate a kidnapping to steal approximately $565,000 from the bank.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, March 25, 2014, to review H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Defendant Sold “Salad Bowl" Franchises in California and Texas.
