News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, PAUL FANTZ, 31, pled guilty before Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt to receipt of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(2), during his arraignment.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Springdale, Utah: Volunteers at Zion National Park recently witnessed a remote controlled drone flying close to a herd of bighorn sheep on the eastern side of the park. They observed the herd scattering at the approach of the drone with several young sheep separated from the adults by the drone. Harassment of wildlife within the park is illegal, as is the use of drones.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT), a statewide land conservation organization, and Friends of Acadia (FOA), a non-profit organization supporting Acadia National Park, today announced that they have transferred their 37-acre parcel at Lower Hadlock Pond to Acadia National Park. The parcel includes 1,600 feet of frontage on the pond and a network of trails that has been used for quiet recreation for more than 100 years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: A man, formerly the Vice President of Bartleson Masonry, Inc. in Forest City, Iowa, who embezzled more than $40,000 from an employee retirement plan, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Defendant Caught with Hydrocodone, Cash and Stolen Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, announced the indictment and arrest of 48 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of controlled substances. The Drug Enforcement (DEA) the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD) are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: A Detroit woman pleaded guilty to willfully making false claims to the United States government by aiding in the preparation of false income tax returns, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today that Mark Anselm, 37, of Clayton, N.Y., was sentenced to seven years in prison before the U.S. District Judge Glen T. Suddaby after having pled guilty to six felony offenses that charged...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that Arthur Lee Clark, age 41, of Sumner, Georgia; Demitri Jackson, age 37; Tedrick Jackson, age 38; William Burns, age 41; Otha Hopkins, age 47, all of Albany, Georgia; Timothy Hopkins, age 41, of Hiram, Georgia; and Michael Bass, age 40, of Ashburn, Georgia ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that Gabrielle Batkin has joined the committee as staff director, effective today. Batkin joins the committee after having worked in the Senate for nearly two decades.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Husband and wife, Hoang Minh Nguyen, 32, and Dung Hang Dao, 32, of San Jose, were sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 12 months of time-served and ordered to pay $70,000 in restitution for customs fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The defendants also agreed to forfeit bank accounts and a property valued at more than $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the final member of the “Felony Lane Gang" conspiracy was sentenced to 63 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A man who used a tiny, hidden video recorder to make over 200 sexually explicit video tape recordings of two female victims who were taking showers and using the restroom at his home in Carson City, Nev., was sentenced today to 19 years in prison, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 10-count federal indictment has been unsealed following the arrest of three Brownsville residents for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Stephen Whipple, acting special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Yvener Jean-Baptiste, 27, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been charged in federal court in Providence, R.I., with allegedly obtaining more than $156,000 in Target and Wal-Mart gift cards by allegedly using stolen identities and fraudulent credit cards, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Ted A. Arruda, Resident Agent in Charge of the Providence Office of the U.S. Secret Service, and Lincoln Police Chief Brian W. Sullivan.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ana Lilia Angulo, 30, of San Jose, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute nine pounds of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Observance of the 2014 International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) gets underway at Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway with a bird-watching caravan Saturday, May 10. To celebrate IMBD and also conduct the annual North American bird count, Park Ranger Andrew Langford will visit several areas throughout the park that provide the best opportunities to locate, identify and record birds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today announced that on Wednesday, May 7 at 1: 0 p.m., the House Judiciary Committee will markup the USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 3361), legislation introduced 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).
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A campaign worker pleaded guilty today for paying voters to vote in the November 2012 school board election in Donna, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two men pleaded guilty to offenses involving material related to the sexual exploitation of minors in separate cases in federal court today, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
