News from November 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - CHRISTOPHER CHANNEL was sentenced to 254 months in prison on charges of distribution of cocaine base and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, resulting in the killing of Carrie Henderson-Shaw.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, announce that Willy Toussaint...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Burton Gersh, 68, and Les Sidweber, 73, both of Cherry Hill, NJ, were charged today by indictment with two counts each of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA -The public is invited to attend any of several meetings in November to learn more about and provide comment on a proposed action to replace administrative facilities at Stehekin on Lake Chelan.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Jeffrey Deshon Applewhite, AKA Jeffrey Donald Mason, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison and ordered to pay $9,249 in restitution for assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns for clients in the San Francisco Bay Area, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for assaulting a federal agent with her car while he was attempting to apprehend her boyfriend during a foot chase.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park is seeking feedback on proposed fee increases to be implemented as early as 2015. This release provides a description of the proposed changes, as well as information on how you can provide input.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Bismarck - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Oct. 31, 2014, Dustin Lester, age 41, was sentenced to serve 60 months imprisonment for assault with a dangerous weapon.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: San Francisco, CA - San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (NHP) is one of 39 national parks selected to receive a 2014 America’s Best Idea (ABI) grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks. This grant will help fund a new marine science underwater resource education program, created in partnership with Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, for 160 underserved high school students.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Nearly 200 students from Frank, Fremont, and Haydock Middle Schools in Oxnard are visiting Channel Islands National Park this week due to funding from a National Park Foundation grant.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin made his first appearance today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on federal terrorism offenses arising from his alleged participation in an attack on U.S. troops and Afghan Border Police in the Khost Province of Afghanistan in November 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell yesterday sentenced Alfred W. Lenz (68, Montague, Michigan) to four years and nine months in federal prison for wire fraud. He also was ordered to forfeit his interest in a house located in Montague, and the contents of a retirement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Julio Montes Ceballo, 46, a resident of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty to fraudulent misuse of a U.S. Permanent Resident Card before U.S. District Court Judge, Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was then sentenced to time served and one year supervised release by Judge Arcara.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Erica Lambert (31, Tampa) to four years and two months in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States Treasury, and to commit wire fraud in connection with filing fraudulent tax returns. She was also ordered to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $499,923. Lambert pleaded guilty on July 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Carlique Deberry, 35, who was convicted of bank fraud, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to six months in a halfway house and three years supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: An illegal alien who assumed the identity of a U.S. citizen, obtained a U.S. passport, and voted in the 2012 presidential election pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Chauncee McFarland, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns and to defraud financing companies, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $408,651.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that charges have been filed against Jose Caldera, who is currently confined at United States Penitentiary, Florence ADMAX, Colorado.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Alvaro Rivera-Pedrego of Douglas, Arizona and Agua Pietra, Mexico was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 60 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2014
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest Resource Advisory Council meeting scheduled for Friday, Nov. 7, in Montrose has been canceled due to a lack of a quorum because of scheduling conflicts. The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 27, 2015, in Montrose, Colo. An agenda and further details will be posted online prior to the meeting.