News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Johnstown physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that ENRIQUE LOPEZ SOLANO, 40, from Moses Lake, Washington, was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment followed by 3 years supervised release during a federal court session in Missoula on April 29, 2014, before Senior U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy. Solano was sentenced in connection with his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretary Kerry and Secretary Hagel...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 32-0 the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 3361), a bipartisan bill authored by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) to reform our nation’s intelligence-gathering programs operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including ending the bulk collection of data.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 6, 2014, a federal grand jury returned two, one-count indictments against Kenneth A. Gianbolvo, of Knoxville, Tenn., and Shaun Hurst, of Sevierville, Tenn., charging both men with theft of government funds.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in opposition to the Republican resolution calling for a Special Counsel to investigate the IRS...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Freeport, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala on a federal drug trafficking charge. The defendant, ROBERTO ALVARADO, 61, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Judge Kapala ordered that at the end of his prison term, Alvarado, a citizen of Mexico, surrender to officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Registration is now open for the free NIST Mobile Forensics Workshop and Webcast to be held Wednesday, June 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Gerod Boyd, age 30, of Middle River, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tisheena Louise Brown, 33, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the death last year of her seven-week-old son, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Forensic DNA analysts are invited to participate in a webinar on DNA mixture interpretation on Wednesday, May 28, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. ET. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is sponsoring the webinar.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs held a legislative hearing on H.R. 4350, the Northern Cheyenne Lands Act, and H.R. 409, the Indian Trust Asset Reform Act. These two bills would allow for increased tribal control of trust assets and fulfill a long-standing federal promise to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Case Arose from Armed Robbery in Caseyville and Was One of Many Prosecuted by United States Attorney Wigginton’s Metro-East Armed Robbery Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and John Billison, Director of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety, announced that Myron Jim Harry, 27, was sentenced this morning to 151 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his rape conviction. Harry will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today following revelations that sequestration resulted in only one layoff, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). As GAO writes on page 51 of this report, “DOJ officials reported that one DOJ component-the U.S. Parole Commission-implemented a reduction in force of one employee to achieve partial savings required by sequestration in fiscal year 2013.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a travel agent was indicted by a federal grand jury today for stealing $360,000 from the Willard High School Band Boosters, which forced the cancellation of a trip to Hawaii for more than 300 students and chaperones.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The “shotcaller" of a South Los Angeles street gang pleaded guilty today to federal racketeering and drug trafficking charges for his role in orchestrating the day-to-day activities of the gang that is controlled by an incarcerated member of the Mexican Mafia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. DETROIT - A ninety-year old man from Indiana was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for his role as a drug courier for a major cocaine trafficking organization with direct ties to the Joquin Guzman (a/k/a “Chapo" Guzman) ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE") Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced today the return of the Duryodhana, a...
