News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal grand jury has added a charge of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine to the current kidnapping allegations against Raul Ochoa-Perez, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: A federal felon who was serving a six-year term of supervised release after being released from prison for drug trafficking was sent back to prison for three years when he was caught selling drugs again.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced that Jeffrey B. Richards, age 63, of Milton, was sentenced today on federal charges related to the online receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two individuals have pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to launder approximately $250,000 in bribes received from Afghan contractors in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. -- Craig E. Applebee, 59, Wichita, Kan., is charged with one count of bank robbery. The indictment alleges that on May 15, 2014, he robbed the Credit Union of America at 212 S. Ridge Road in Wichita.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Pablo Plaza, of Rochester, N.Y., 38, pleaded guilty to the commission of a murder while engaged in a drug trafficking conspiracy before U.S. District judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years and a maximum of life, and a $250,000.
By State Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following President Obama’s foreign policy speech today at West Point...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Larry Donald Havier, Jr., 37, of Worley, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to distribution of fifty grams or more of actual methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Havier was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Carl E.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Settlements Valued At More Than $75 Million Completed In the First Half of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two more Romanian citizens have been sentenced for their participation in an extensive Internet...
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: In support of the Obama Administration’s Open Data Policy to make data more accessible to the public and entrepreneurs, the Energy Department today officially launched the National Geothermal Data System (NGDS), an online open-source platform that facilitates the discovery and use of geothermal data...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Dr. John K. Yacoub, age 58, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine and methadone.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Denton County, Texas man and woman have been sentenced to federal prison for income tax violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: This Represents the Largest Federal Health Care Fraud Settlement involving a Hospital in the History of the Eastern District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Timothy Peck, 41, of Beckley, West Virginia, plead guilty in federal court in Beckley to distributing heroin. Peck admitted that in January of 2014, he sold heroin to a person who was cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Pardee Lane in Stanaford, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Sergio Alejandro Valero Ibarra, 48, a resident of Mexico, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms and more of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ibarra pleaded guilty Aug. 29, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) today advanced three bipartisan bills, building on its record of bipartisan success in the public health space. The subcommittee today approved H.R. 4299, the Improving Regulatory Transparency for New Medical Therapies Act, H.R. 4709, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act, and H.R. 4631, the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Myra Hight, 52, of Lake Tahoe, CA, who was convicted of marijuana conspiracy, was sentenced to time served and three years supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Roger D. France, 28, of White Pine, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, on May 28, 2014. Upon his release from prison, France will be subject to supervised release under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for three years. There is no parole in the federal system.
