News from May 2014
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Two Roads To Close Temporarily for Maintenance and Safety Improvements in Redwood National and State Parks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Failed to Report Over $600,000 in Embezzled Funds.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Seasonal hurricane forecasters are calling for a 70 percent chance of 14 to 20 named storms, which includes 7 to 11 hurricanes, of which 3 to 6 are expected to become major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale).
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted $4,582,755 in revenues from the sale of 43 Federal leases, totaling 14,620 acres, in Montana and the Dakotas.Stewart...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Two men who are charged with recently committing the armed robberies of four jewelry stores in Dallas and Lewisville, Texas, were arrested this morning on federal charges, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Vernon J. Atcitty, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an aggravated sexual assault charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Atcitty will be sentenced to eight years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Atcitty will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Yesterday in federal court, Roger Martin Pedley was sentenced for evading taxes for the tax years 2006-2009. Pedley was indicted on April 9, 2013 and pleaded guilty to four counts of Tax Evasion on Aug. 12, 2013. United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced Pedley to one year and one day in prison on each of the four counts, to be served concurrently, and ordered Pedley to pay $489,623 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Today a federal grand jury indicted the man alleged to be responsible for pipe bombs found at a Chowchilla Shell Gas Station on March 28, 2014, and at the Crossroads Christian School in Madera on May 4, 2014, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorneys Office announced today that a federal trial jury has just found Gary Joseph Conti guilty of the following charges: Conspiracy to defraud the United States (1 count); Scheme to Defraud the United States and the Blackfeet Tribe (21 counts); Theft of Federal Property by Fraud...
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Although Grand Canyon National Park received below-average precipitation this winter, the warm spring caused vegetation in the park to thrive. Now, fine fuels are quickly drying out as winds and temperatures rise, increasing the risk of wildfire.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Margie Sue Goad has pleaded guilty in federal court to theft of government funds for stealing her granddaughter's Social Security benefits.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released a report demonstrating that petroleum exchanges between the United States and nearby nations could be approved immediately. Such transactions would be a partial measure that could help alleviate the oversupply of light crude and condensate in the center of the country, without requiring presidential action or a rulemaking from the Commerce Department.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Sergey Potepalov, 58, of Citrus Heights, today to two years and three months in prison for directing a marriage fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. He was the last of nine defendants to be sentenced in the case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Mark Anthony Pape, 23, of Fort Worth, Texas, with one count of production of child pornography and one count of committing this offense as a registered sex offender. Pape has been in federal custody since his arrest last...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Steven Sheely, Sr., 59, Camp Hill, PA, Staci Sheely, 52, Camp Hill, PA, Steven Sheely, Jr., 39, Mechanicsburg, PA, John McDonald, 37, New Cumberland, PA, James Fox, 46, Harrisburg, PA, Bret Hager, 42, Carlisle...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - The president of American Commercial Colleges, Inc. (ACC), Doyle Brent Sheets, appeared this morning in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, and pleaded guilty personally, and on behalf of ACC, to federal charges. U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A truck driver from Wichita was sentenced Thursday to 150 months in federal prison for transporting child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two New Jersey men admitted this week to participating in an armed robbery of a Target Store in Union, N.J., on “Black Friday" in November 2012, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Grand juries in Fresno and Sacramento have indicted eight current or former members of the California National Guard, in seven separate cases, charging them with wire fraud for fraudulently obtaining recruiting referral bonuses, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Chastain Montgomery, Sr., 50, of Lavergne, TN, pleaded guilty today to seven federal crimes committed during a six-month spree that included the murders of United States Postal Service employees Paula Robinson and Judy Spray, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III; Keith Fixel, Inspector in Charge of the Charlotte Division, United States Postal Inspection Service; and Mark Gwyn, Director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
