News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Shelly Binkowski, Inspector in Charge for the Boston Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service, today...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The United States Attorney's Office announced today that QUENTEN T. MARTIN of Dexter, Missouri, was sentenced today to 57 months for one felony count of Being a Previously Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm. He appeared before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that Defendant BRIAN LEON GUERRERO, age 25, from Tamuning, was sentenced on May 13, 2014, in the District Court of Guam by Chief Judge Ramona Manglona, for the offense of Dealing in Counterfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner and operator of a Tennessee salvage and demolition company, A&E Salvage Inc., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Greeneville, Tennessee, for conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND Va. - Clyde Maurice Neblett, III, 23, of Richmond, Virginia, a member of the Nine Trey Gangsters, was sentenced today on three firearms offenses. A jury convicted Neblett in January of possession of three firearms by a felon and also, in a separate incident, of possessing a fourth gun while...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that MARSHA RENEE WRIGHT, age 29, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 5 years of probation for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 113(a)(3), 1151 and 1153. The defendant was also ordered to pay $5,100.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Ari Elias Baum, 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making a false statement to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and withholding material information from the agency concerning his eligibility to receive disability benefits. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Mexican Sex Trafficker Sentenced Today In Federal Court.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s nomination hearing for posts at the International Monetary Fund, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Inter-American Development Bank. The remarks follow:
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on Senate leadership to allow amendments to be considered for the EXPIRE Act, which was passed by the Finance Committee in a bipartisan fashion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christine Wright-Darrisaw, 38, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted following a jury trial of making a direct threat to kill the President of the United States and then lying to United States Secret Service Agents investigating the case, was sentenced to 33 months in prison today by U. S. District Court Judge Frank P Geraci.
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: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion has sentenced Kevin Lawrence Johnson, age 35, formerly of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, to nine years’ imprisonment for distributing heroin on numerous occasions between 2010 and May 2013 in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging four individuals with crimes relating to the distribution...
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) heard from government officials and private sector stakeholders on the current state of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program, or CFATS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced the sentencing today of Andrea Lorraine Avery, 47, of Los Angeles, California, following acceptance of her guilty plea in December of last year. Avery pleaded guilty to seven counts that included: conspiracy to commit fraud, five counts...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), announced today that charges in three unrelated cases have been brought against the following persons by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Benfen Zhang, 43, of Flushing, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to conspiracy to use counterfeit access devices to receive cash advances from Louisiana casinos.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2014 - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held an oversight field hearing in Batesville, Arkansas on “Protecting the Rights of Property Owners: Proposed Federal Critical Habitat Designations Gone Wild." The hearing examined the comprehensive impacts of critical...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO -The United States Attorney's Office announced today that DERIC S. SILMAN of Fenton, Missouri, was sentenced today to 72 months for one felony count of Being a Previously Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm. He appeared before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.
