News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Humberto Cuellar, age 41, originally of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, was sentenced on May 29, 2014, by Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette, III, to 110 months imprisonment, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. Cuellar was previously convicted of rioting at the Adams County Correctional facility. The riot occurred on May 20, 2012. Cuellar was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,382,113.00.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Raibwar Raouf, also known as “Camel," of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By State Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a meeting of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere to mark up the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Act, legislation he introduced with Subcommittee Chairman Matt Salmon (R-AZ) aimed at reducing drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man has been charged with obstructing the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury has recently returned indictments charging four St. Cloud men with illegally possessing guns. On May 21, 2014, Darron Israel Shelton, Quontrell Martell Banner, and Kenneth Melvin Vinson were each charged with one count of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. That same day, through a separate indictment, Gregory Wimberly, Jr. was charged with two counts of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Donna Spencer, 51, of Falconer, N.Y., who was convicted of misappropriation of postal funds by a postal service employee, was sentenced to two-years probation by Chief Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $14,023.50 to the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that another state auditor has been charged in the ongoing federal and state investigation into corruption at the Bureau of Auditing and Compliance Services for the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).
By Homeland Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - As National Hurricane Preparedness Week comes to a close, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, reminded Americans to prepare for the 2014 hurricane season. The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 and the Eastern Pacific hurricane season began on May 15. Both seasons end on November 30.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - A Grand Jury has indicted Hector Miguel Diaz-Osuna, Ricardo Gonzalez-Porras and Jesus Beltran-Rodriguez for conspiracy to commit murder, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. Gonzalez-Porras was also charged with assaulting a prison guard. Two other defendants, Juan Geraldo Arredondo and Ernesto Granados, were charged in the indictment with rioting.
By Commerce Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement on the Committee’s June 12th hearing with Secretary of State John Kerry...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, sentenced Ernest Murray, 51, of Rutland to five years imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in the Rutland area. In addition, Judge...
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: In accordance with the National Park Service (NPS) Management Policies of 2006, public entry into geothermal features is prohibited within the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. Application of this NPS policy is consistent with regulations currently enforced in adjacent Yellowstone National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Four defendants appeared in federal Court in Wichita Friday on federal charges of conspiring to steal U.S. mail and commit bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: Defendant sold drugs outside Dumfries day care center that was owned and operated by his wife.
By DOE Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: Bonneville Power Administration Building. 905 NE 11th Ave. Portland, Oregon 97232. The ninth in a series of planned DOE Office of Indian Energy-sponsored strategic energy development forums, this Tribal Leader Forum will focus on biomass development opportunities, technology updates, resource assessment...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a criminal information was filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging Luzerne County Court employee, Stacey McGlone, age 37, of McAdoo, Pennsylvania, with stealing in excess of $5,000 from the Luzerne County Probation/Parole office, under the supervision of the County Court of Common Pleas, during the course of her employment with that office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: Scheme Involved The Theft Of More Than 150 Account Numbers And Over Half A Million Dollars In Losses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Indictments were filed yesterday charging a Pennsylvania attorney and his client in a bankruptcy fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Pietro A. Barbieri, esq., 61, of Exton, PA, was retained by Deborah Messner, 59, of Glenmoore, PA, for a divorce and bankruptcy...
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: San Juan, PR - Construction and improvements to the Visitor Center parking lot will begin on June 2, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Baltimore, Maryland - Jason Dietz, age 34, of Timonium, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to theft of funds from a federal program, in connection with the theft of at least $571,205 in grant money from the National Institute for Drug Abuse for research conducted at its facilities in Baltimore.
