News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Four members of a Brockton family have entered felony guilty pleas in connection with the embezzlement of $132,564 in municipal monies belonging to the Town of Brockton by former business manager Desiree Lambert. Desiree Lambert, 59, pleaded guilty to fraud, embezzlement, and aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner of the defunct Chicago Rush Arena Football League team was arrested today on federal fraud charges for allegedly concealing certain business interests and assets from creditors and overstating his net worth in connection with his purchase and operation of the indoor football...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida -Everglades National Park has received the prestigious honor of being selected as the one national site in the state of Florida to be portrayed on the reverse side of a newly- minted, United States quarter, and the public is invited to its ceremonial release, being held onThursday, December 4in Homestead.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging nine defendants with federal conspiracy for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin in Benton Harbor, Michigan, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. A joint investigation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who was found in possession of heroin during execution of a search warrant pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Anthony M. Barnes, 38, of Detroit, Michigan, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Huntington to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Lamont Bonds, age 26, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, today to 125 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for armed robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, in connection with four restaurant robberies. Judge Bennett also ordered Bonds to pay restitution of $24,900.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Nov. 19, 2014, Allen W. Clover, Jr., 41, of Tilden, pled guilty to a two-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of pseudoephedrine knowing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for making a hoax telephone call with a false threat to contaminate the public water supplies of Kansas City, Mo., St. Louis, Mo., Wichita, Kan., and Topeka, Kan.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River announces a program highlighting Native American culture on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014. Visitors will have a chance to look back into the ways of the Native American people of the East Tennessee area and view many artifacts from Native American peoples from all over the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a 10-year long drug-trafficking conspiracy that resulted in the death of one individual and the distribution of more than three kilograms of heroin in the Kansas City area.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Library (NAL) probably does not come to mind as a place to go mushroom hunting, but it is the place to find a great mycological treasure.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN DeCRESCENZO, 37, of West Haven, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison and, separately, guilty pleas were unsealed in the same case for twin brothers who ran the cartel’s Chicago distribution cell and supplied vast quantities of cocaine and heroin in cities across the United States and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A former firefighter for the Church Road Fire Protection District in Centreville, Illinois, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm on Nov. 24, 2014, the United...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Research showing bone development was significantly impaired in the unborn young of mother lab rats fed high-fat rations to induce obesity is among the new findings in the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's Food and Nutrition Research Briefs and its Spanish-language edition (Informe de investigaciones de alimentos y nutrición).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two Mission, South Dakota, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Third Degree Burglary and two counts of Larceny.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Ultra-sensitive magnetic sensor technology pioneered at PML may soon be commercialized for a host of applications from detection of unexploded bombs and underground pipes to geophysical surveying and perhaps even imaging of the brain and heart.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - Joshua Lee, age 31, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court in Huntington to six months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Lee previously pled guilty in August of 2014, admitting that on Jan. 23, 2013, he sold heroin to a confidential...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Tiny worms called nematodes don't move randomly through the soil, but instead find their way around by relying on electrical fields, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Tillman Naskia Begaye Killed a Mother and her Two Adult.
