News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The last defendants in a series of large cases targeting the Nuestra Familia prison gang were sentenced in U.S. District Court this week, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. In total, 37 defendants were sentenced to federal prison, 18 of them to 10 years or more in prison. One defendant was sentenced to probation. They were sentenced for drug trafficking offenses committed to advance the Nuestra Familia gang.
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: Tenant And Heroin Supplier Charged With Drug Distribution And Illegal Weapons Possession.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced David Andrew Pizer, age 46, of Silver Spring, Maryland today to 249 months in prison followed by supervised release for life, for conspiring to produce child pornography. Judge Grimm ordered that upon his release from prison, Pizer must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: The tenant who rented the basement of a home in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, and his heroin supplier, have both been charged with gun and drug crimes after selling heroin and a firearm to a person working with law enforcement, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. At the time of the arrests last ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Agents helped rescue sixteen-year-old hostage from remote campsite near Morehead Lake.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Howes, South Dakota, woman convicted of embezzlement from a credit union was sentenced on April 29, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Robert A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE -Jacob Russell Jackson, 54, of Lapwai, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Jackson was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene on April 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Two Inland Empire residents have pleaded guilty to federal sex trafficking charging, admitting that they forced a 14-year-old girl to work as a prostitute in 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Douglas Jason Way, 41, of Evanston, Ill.; Timothy Ortiz, 43, of Waukegan, Ill.; and Natalie Middleton, 28, of Clovis, Calif., have been arrested as part of a nationwide law enforcement effort to combat the threat of synthetic drugs. The arrests were announced by United States Attorney...
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after President Obama removed certain trade benefits for Russia under the General System of Preferences...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - Michael W. Smith, 36, of Sandyville, Jackson County, West Virginia, was sentenced to five years’ probation following his guilty plea to theft of government benefits, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Smith was also ordered to repay $10,110 to the federal government.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yesterday, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter to Democrat members of the Committee asking if they support President Obama’s postal reform provisions laid out in The President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2015 and scheduled for Committee mark up this afternoon. The Chairman has not yet heard from the Democrats on the Committee and has decided to postpone the Committee’s mark up scheduled for this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Alan.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MICHAEL ENGLER was sentenced to 60 months in prison for using interstate facilities to entice a minor on Craigslist. But that minor was an undercover officer working with the FBI’s Crimes Against Children Task Force.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Grab your flashlight and experience a lighthouse at night by joining the National Park Service on a Full Moon Climb at the Cape Hatteras or Bodie Island Lighthouse on Wed, May 14, 2014.Hear stories of keepers of old, view the working light close up in the lantern room, and catch the reflection off the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Three Topeka men were indicted Wednesday on federal gun charges in unrelated cases, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Customs and Border (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security (HSI), Federal Bureau of (FBI), Internal Revenue (IRS) and other federal, state, and local partners announced the culmination of Project Synergy Phase II, an ongoing effort targeting...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Wind Cave National Park, S.D. - The 2,199 acre prescribed burn planned for this spring in the southwestern corner of Wind Cave National Park has been postponed until fall. Weather, and the accelerated green-up of the prairie grasses, prompted the postponement. Firefighters believe the delay will enhance the park's ability to achieve the burn's objectives of reducing fuel loading in the ponderosa pine forest and decreasing encroachment of young ponderosa pine onto the prairie.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Kenneth L. Durbin, a 73 year-old male from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was charged with distributing a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
