News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Richard Earl Graybeal, 41, of Cookeville, Tenn., pleaded guilty on May 20, 2014, in U.S. District Court, to producing false identification documents, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Graybeal admitted that he had unlawfully manufactured Tennessee driver licenses and identification documents to facilitate the purchase of cold medications, which are commonly used in the production of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Archaeological Investigations at Datum H: Exploring Ohio Hopewell Activities at the Edge of Hopewell Mound Group.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Matthew Tardiff, 27, formerly of Old Town, Mainewas sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to 4¾ years in prison and three years...
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations for peanut producers and industry representatives to serve on the Peanut Standards Board.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Last week in federal court, a 37-year-old Winona man was sentenced for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Gabriel Orion Lowther to 120 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Lowther, who was indicted on July 8, 2013, pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a four-day trial, a federal jury found James O. Molen, 70, of Chico, guilty today on five counts - two counts of filing false liens against federal officers, two counts of contempt, and one count of interference with the administration of tax laws, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The trial was held before United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Alvester Thomas, age 34, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to ten years and one month imprisonment as a result of his February 2014 guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute 1000 grams or more of heroin. Agents...
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pressed the White House on the decision to revive the Office of Political Affairs (OPA) three years after the office was shut down just prior to the release of an Office of Special Counsel report calling OPA’s existence into question and citing Hatch Act violations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Huntington -, W.Va. - Karl C. Colder, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Washington Field Division and United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Kenneth Dewitt Newman, also known as “K-Kutta," 32, of Huntington pleaded guilty today in federal court in Huntington...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three Romanian natives living in Queens, N.Y., today admitted their involvement in a long-running and lucrative scheme to steal account information from bank customers throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut by installing secret card-reading devices on ATMs, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - A marijuana grower and dealer who used firearms to confront fleeing robbers, firing a dozen times in a residential neighborhood, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 32 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Jason Loken, 38, of Maple Valley, Washington, ...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: On May 27, Golden Gate National Recreation (GGNRA) Superintendent Frank Dean, in coordination with the Presidio Trust, signed into effect an interim permit requirement for commercial dog walkers on lands administered by the National Park Service in Marin and San Francisco counties. This NPS decision...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Leayle Morton Benjamin, Jr., Aben A. Marrero, Jr., and Michael Samuels, each to 121 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - An owner and three former employees of an Illinois hospice company, as well as the company itself, were indicted on federal health care fraud charges for allegedly engaging in an extensive scheme to obtain higher Medicare and Medicaid payments by fraudulently elevating the level of hospice...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: One of the biggest National Park Service (NPS) artifact and archival collections is at Gettysburg National Military Park with a wide array of educational objects and historical records. Now more than 40,000 images and catalog records for the Gettysburg collection can now be found online. To see the Gettysburg...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - National Park Service fire managers on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon have decided to manage the Galahad Fire for multiple objectives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man who distributed heroin in Parkersburg in 2013 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Marion Alonvo Felder, 30, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin before United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. in Charleston.
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Effective May 15, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) prohibits the use of fireworks and exploding targets on all BLM-managed public lands throughout Oregon and Washington. As we celebrate America's wilderness areas with the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, we are reminded of how special...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Kan., woman and man were charged in federal court today with the armed robbery of an Excelsior Springs, Mo., bank.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington sentenced Eleftherios Zachariadis (47, Lake Alfred) on Friday, May 23, 2014, to 14 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. Zachariadis pleaded guilty on January 9, 2014.
