News from May 2014

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Juan Jose Sanchez, 23, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to one count of unlawfully possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Leopoldo “Polo" Rodriguez, 42, resident of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute, marijuana.

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, May 5, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PETER TURNER, 58, of Burlington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Linda Rakonczay, 58, of Middleport, N.Y., who was convicted of wire fraud and filing false tax returns, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to pay $93,999 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and $499,563 in restitution to Orleans Community Health.

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Project Ceasefire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm. Reginald Cole, 26, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Washington, D.C. man, was sentenced today to a 28-month prison term for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old relative last year at the child’s home in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jorge Guevera, 35, of Arvin, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Case Resolves Twenty-one ATM Thefts in Six Western States.

By State Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today made the following statement regarding the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian girls by Boko Haram, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Alan Robert Johnson (35) to 50 years in federal prison and Jennifer A. Sparks (39) to 30 years in federal prison for production of child pornography. They were both ordered to serve a lifetime of supervision, after their release...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A second superseding indictment was unsealed today adding 19 counts including racketeering conspiracy and attempted murder against three defendants for their alleged participation in the violent Nuestra Familia gang, Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Richard Terrell Jasper, 39, of Gulfport, Mississippi, pled guilty in U.S. District Court today to aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Gabriel L. Grchan of IRS Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Dr. Eric Jacobson Illegally Distributed Oxycodone To Patients After Surrendering His DEA License.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: The House Energy and Commerce Committee has scheduled a markup this week to consider H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, H.R. 4342, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act, and legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism...
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Arizona Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet in Phoenix on May 7-8, 2014. Established in 1995, the statewide citizen-based council provides advice to the BLM on land management programs and issues affecting public lands in Arizona. In addition, the RAC has been...

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, May 5, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Mark R. Kelley, a 51-year old, homeless man was sentenced on May 2, 2014, in federal district court in East St. Louis, Illinois, on one count of failure to register as a sex offender, the...
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: The House Energy and Commerce Committee has scheduled a markup this week to consider H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, H.R. 4342, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act, and legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism...

By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: A woman, formerly the city clerk for Masonville, Iowa, who defrauded the city of more than $30,000, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that John Quinn, 55, of Rutland, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to five months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge of mail fraud. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions...