News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Andrew Hollins, 27, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced on May 19, 2014 by United States District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha to 58 months in jail for conspiring to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine) and heroin in Burlington, Vermont. Hollins was also sentenced to a 3-year period of supervised release after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to submitting more than $2.6 million in health care claims, although he was excluded from participating in any federal health care programs after being convicted of a felony drug charge.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its efforts to keep the promise of Medicare for the nation’s seniors, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today discussed ways to modernize and reform Medicare payment structures to help strengthen the program. Subcommittee members also discussed legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Ian Jack Crooked Arm, a/k/a Ian Sittre, 27, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 27 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Sittre to serve three years of supervised release, following...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Action Manufacturing Company, headquartered in Bristol, Bucks County, pled guilty today to storing explosive hazardous waste illegally at its facility in Atglen, Chester County, PA, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The defendant has agreed to pay a fine of $1.2 million...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jermaine Hairston, 38, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment, filed yesterday, with health care fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), announce that...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Juan Figueroa Garcia was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick.
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: BRASILIA, Brazil - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assisted the Brazilian Department of Federal Police (DPF) in executing Operation "Proteja Brasil," or "Protect Brazil," aimed at combating online child pornography. Approximately 200 federal police officers executed 40 search warrants in 14 states across Brazil as part of the operation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal firearms laws and drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Snyder Geronimo III, 23, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 33 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his child sexual abuse conviction. Geronimo will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By State Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Royce: “But we can do more".
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMON GARCIA, 41, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Nikolaos Frangos, 38, George Capuzello, 42, both of Campbell, Ohio, and Mikhail Zubialevich, a/k/a “Russian Mike," 41, of Princeton, New Jersey were charged by indictment, unsealed today, in a conspiracy related to the disturbance of protected Peregrine Falcons, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, United States District Court Judge Robin J. Cauthron sentenced LAURA JEAN SHOULDERS, 47, of Burns Flat, Oklahoma, to serve 324 months in federal prison for producing child pornography, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Shoulders will have no possibility of parole. Upon release from prison, Shoulders will have to register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: The Acadia National Park Advisory Commission will meet at park headquarters (20 McFarland Hill Drive) in Bar Harbor at 1-3 pm on Monday, June 2, 2014. The meeting is open to the public and will include an opportunity for public comment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. James Nathaniel Watts, 29, of Cairo, Illinois, appeared in United States District Court in Benton and was ordered held without bond on charges that he illegally possessed a firearm, Stephen...
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 Cultural Demonstrators Alice Hawthorne and Angeline Murphy from Houck, Arizona will teach Navajo techniques in loom weaving at Painted Desert Inn from 12pm - 2pm. This workshop will include both demonstrations and hands-on experience. All are welcome and this program is accessible. The normal entrance fee into the park applies.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: Angela Hight Walker of PML's Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division and colleagues have succeeded in measuring a previously unknown but essential property − thermal conductivity −of an ultra-thin material that is expected to play a major role in the fast-emerging field of nanoelectronics.
By EPA Newswire | May 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its efforts to keep the promise of Medicare for the nation’s seniors, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today discussed ways to modernize and reform Medicare payment structures to help strengthen the program. Subcommittee members also discussed legislation...
