News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on May 13, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Stories about the prominent world leaders of the Cold War era, President Dwight D. Eisenhower's frustrations playing golf, his Secret Service protection, and much more are the focus of National Park Service programs at Eisenhower National Historic Site this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A local man who maliciously attempted to destroy a Las Vegas beauty supply store by fire and explosive devices, was sentenced today to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay nearly $1.7 million in restitution, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Tony Lee Holcombe, age 61, of Easley, South Carolina, pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Spartanburg, to theft of Government funds, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641. United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg today indicted Colonel Robert J. Rice, 56, of Carlisle, for possession and distribution of child pornography over the internet. Rice is a Colonel in the U.S. Army stationed at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A California man pleaded guilty today in the District of Massachusetts for his role in a conspiracy to hack into the computerized cash registers of a number of Subway restaurants to fraudulently obtain more than $40,000 in gift cards.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Viviana Reyes (40, Tampa) to 12 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, credit card fraud, bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and identity theft. The Court also ordered Reyes...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ISAIAS FLORES-MENDEZ, 42, of Queens, New York, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to life in prison in connection with his leadership of a long-running sex trafficking conspiracy that employed...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL LOGAN, a former manager of TestQuest, Inc. (“TestQuest") - an educational services company that provided tutoring services to students attending underperforming public schools in New York City...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Rodger Dale Seilhan, 63, of New Iberia, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to charges that he failed to update his sex offender registration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in Charge of the New York Field Office (“FBI"), announced today that JOSEPH DEL VALLE, an owner and partner of various investment companies, including Vanquish Acquisition Partners...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lebanon, Mo., man was convicted in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm and attempting to acquire a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Arnulfo Gomez Tejeda, 39, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced on May 13, 2014, after having previously pleaded guilty on Sept. 12, 2013, to possession with intent to distribute heroin. Tejeda was sentenced to an 18 year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 10 year term of court supervision upon release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced WALLACE EDWIN PERRY, JR., 28, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to 188 months imprisonment followed by 15 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Former Murray County Chief Magistrate Judge Bryant L. Cochran has been indicted for sexually assaulting a county employee, for framing a woman who alleged that she had been sexually propositioned by Cochran, and for tampering with a witness.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Temporary closures throughout the south Jenny Lake area are lifted effective today, May 14, 2014. The brief closures were implemented for public safety while a helicopter transported heavy material to trail locations on the west side of Jenny Lake. Staging of this material for a major trail construction project was completed in just two days, allowing for the area to reopen for public access.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: BOISE B Jonathan Lynn Henery, 28, and Beau Edward Hansen, 30, both of Boise, Idaho, were indicted May 13, 2014, on federal hate crime charges for their racially motivated assault of an African-American man, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. An initial appearance date has not been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Cranford, N.J., man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for distributing images of child sexual abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Philadelphia woman today admitted conspiring to sell guns without a license, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ELAINE LEWIS was sentenced to 27 months in prison for embezzling more than $300,000 from a church checking account, between 2009 and August 2013. In addition to the prison sentence, she was also ordered to pay restitution of more than $303,000.
