News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: A woman who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced Oct. 30, 2014, to 10 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ishmael Shah, 20, of Darby, PA, was charged today by indictment with seven robberies which interfered with interstate commerce and related firearm charges, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Shah committed the following armed robberies: on...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Nov. 3, 2014, Brian Scott Dahl, 51, Williston, ND, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve 17 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Camp Verde Arizona - Montezuma Castle/Tuzigoot National Monument is one of 28 national parks selected to receive a 2014 Park Stewards grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks. Our Natural Resource project educates youth on native plant identification, propagation, and restoration of our native areas, by working directly with two local high schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANGELA LEMOINE, 43, of Amite, Louisiana, was charged in a Bill of Information today with one count of theft of funds.

By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal program meant to help homeless assistance providers is inefficient and flawed, wasting time and resources for both the federal government and the groups it is designed to help, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Tom Coburn...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: In El Paso on Friday, 31-year-old former U.S. Army Sergeant Dexroy Germaine Hamilton was sentenced to six months in federal prison followed by six months home confinement for the illegal importation of International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR) controlled military equipment valued at approximately $30,000 announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent In Charge Dennis Ulrich.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Calvin Frank Joe, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gallup, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a federal involuntary manslaughter charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Joe will be sentenced to 42 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Acting Superintendent Kym Hall announced today that Wright Brothers National Memorial will join national park units across the country in honoring current and former servicemen and women and their families.Entrance to Wright Brothers National Memorial will be free to all park visitors on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Amin Abel Gonell-Artiles, 34, to seven months in prison for illegal reentry into the United States, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Michael Anthony McLeod age 31, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 100 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Rhode Island State Police Troopers Allegedly Seized A Loaded Firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site closed the 2014 visitor season by celebrating Halloween on Beals Street. The cool, clear Friday evening was perfect for Trick or Treating. Under the skeletal watch of nearly-bare trees towering over the site, staff greeted over 4,000 trick-or-treaters and...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
Release: By Joani Dong, Foreign Agricultural Service Agricultural Attache, Senegal.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Senior United States District Court Judge Robert H. Whaley sentenced Doris E. Nelson, 55 of Colbert, Washington, to a 108-month term of imprisonment after having previously entered guilty pleas...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Mathew A. Soscia, 23, of Larchmont, New York, has been ordered detained in federal custody on a criminal complaint charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Charges Included Possession / Transfer of Short-barreled Rifles, Shotgun and Silencer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A 32-year-old Rockwall, Texas, man appeared this morning in federal court, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez, and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A former south suburban Lansing man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison for attempting to persuade an individual he believed was a 14-year-old girl to engage in illegal sexual conduct. The defendant, MARTIN N. PAZDZUIRA, 47, formerly of Lansing, who has been in custody since...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced Nov. 3, 2014, to more than 10 years in federal prison.