News from May 2014
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC--House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) today applauded President Obama’s designation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument near Las Cruces, New Mexico. President Obama is establishing the Organ Mountains as a National Monument using powers...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Trenton, N.J. men have been charged with a series of armed robberies committed in Burlington and Mercer counties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony John Shanta, 20, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Sadith Chavez-Perez, 23, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chavez-Perez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, on Feb. 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Matthew Scanlon, 31, of Pasadena, Md., was sentenced today to 51 months in prison on charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Ralph Schnyer, 46, of 213 Birge Street, Brattleboro, Vermont was sentenced on May 19, 2014 by U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III, to 12 months and one day in prison for possession of child pornography. Schnyer was also sentenced to five years of supervised release after the completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Dr. Michael Randall with illegal distribution of thousands of prescription pain pills, including oxycodone, oxymorphone, methadone, and carisoprodol. Randall surrendered earlier today, ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: On May 19-23, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Human Smuggling and Trafficking Unit (HSTU) and HSI Bogota conducted training to more than 100 Colombian law enforcement officers and prosecutors. The training included HSI’s efforts to combat human...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Tracy Mitchell, of Phenix City, Alabama; Dameisha Mitchell, of Phenix City, Alabama; Latasha Mitchell, of Phenix City, Alabama; Keisha Lanier, of Seale, Alabama; Sharondra Johnson, of Phenix City, Alabama; Cynthia Johnson, of Phenix City, Alabama; Mequetta Snell-Quick, of Phenix...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted Keith A. Arrick Sr., 46, of Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky and his son, Keith A. Arrick Jr., 21, of Columbus, Ohio charging them with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Defendant Sandy Jenkins Faces Up to 60 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W. Va. - A federal grand jury has charged a six-time felon from Cedar Grove with illegally possessing firearms, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Reginald Bennett, 40, of Cedar Grove, was indicted for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. According to an indictment returned yesterday, Bennett has been convicted of six robbery and firearms felonies in Baltimore, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: PAIN CLINIC OWNER SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS IN PRISON AND ORDERED TO FORFEIT $6.3 MILLION IN PROFITS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: A federal Grand Jury returned a two-count indictment charging Sergei Davidoff, aka Sergiu Davidov, aka Sammy Davidoff, aka Sergio Da Vido, 53, with fraudulent use of credit cards and identification documents, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael James Saavedra, 22, of Albuquerque, N.M., and Dylan James Demone, 23, of Rio Rancho, N.M., were arraigned today on an indictment charging them with unlawfully aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft. Both men entered not guilty pleas and were released on conditions of release pending trial.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - Two Kremmling men must each perform 100 hours of community service and pay up to $5,500 in fines for vandalizing Bureau of Land Management facilities at the Confluence Recreation Site just south of Kremmling. Alexander Schultz, 19, and Dezmin Jackson, 20, vandalized the restroom, a kiosk, a retaining wall, and other items with graffiti.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Voyageurs National Park biologists located 67 bald eagle nests within the park boundary on April 15, 2014 while conducting the 42 consecutive spring aerial survey (1973-2014) to determine the number and location of nesting pairs present.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tenya Lester-Gonzalez, 38, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 24 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The president and chief executive officer of Virginia-based Symplicity Corporation pleaded guilty today to conspiring to hack into the computer systems of two competitors to improve his company’s software development and sales strategy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Gaeton Della Penna (61, Sarasota) with eight counts of wire fraud and ten counts of mail fraud in connection with an investment fraud scheme. If convicted, Penna faces a maximum penalty...
