News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Six men were indicted on federal charges alleging a plot to force a former employee of a now-closed suburban restaurant to pay a business debt of approximately $40,000, federal law enforcement officials announced today. On June 1 of this year, five of the six defendants allegedly physically...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - Jose Miguel Andrade-Rocha has been ordered to prison for transporting a load of marijuana and assaulting a Border (BP) agent who was attempting to arrest him, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. He pleaded guilty July 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Diego Alfonso Navarrete Beltran, 42, an accused member of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization, has been extradited from Colombia to face hostage taking and terrorism charges in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man who owns property in Jackson County, Kan., pleaded guilty Friday to violating the federal Clean Water Act, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that, Juan Morales, 25, of Brockport, NY, who was convicted of possessing a firearm as a felon, was sentenced to 100 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Charleston, WV - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that his office has collected $7,847,442.99 in fiscal year 2014. Of this amount, $2,887,853 was collected in criminal actions, $2,430,992 was collected in civil actions, and $1,923.369.99 was collected in asset forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - William Gene Andrews, 54, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Andrews pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 14, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The second leader of the computer hacking group Team Digi7al was sentenced today for hacking the United States Navy, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, announced Danny C. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former Foxboro man was sentenced yesterday for mortgage fraud in connection with the purchases of residential properties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 21, 2014, Robert E. Cummings, 61, of Knox County, Tenn., and Benito D. Lopez, 62, of Knox County pleaded guilty to attempting to commit extortion under color of official right. Sentencing for Cummings was set for 1:00 p.m., on Mar. 23, 2015. Sentencing for Lopez was set for 9:00 a.m., on Mar. 30, 2015. Each faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervision by the U.S. Probation office upon release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - After a three-day trial, a federal jury found the former executive director of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands guilty of accepting bribes and extortion in the awarding of contracts with the Legislature.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that civil settlements have been reached with five individuals from Rapid City, South Dakota, who submitted false claims to the United States Forest Service (USFS). The scheme involved employing and harboring illegal aliens from 2007 to 2012, a violation of the contracts awarded to remove timber in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Defendants Ran DTO While Incarcerated At Dallas County Jail And From Pleasant Grove Area Of South Dallas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and U.S. Michael Bennet to announce a landmark settlement agreement that will help protect the Roan Plateau near Rifle, Colorado, while also encouraging natural gas development. The settlement helps protect wildlife...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Hurst, Texas, man is in federal custody, charged in a federal criminal complaint with transporting and shipping child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldana.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after the EPA announced that it would further delay a decision on the 2014 Renewable Volume Obligations (RVO) under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Fairbanks man who is currently in federal custody at the Fairbanks Correctional Center awaiting sentencing on a number of felony charges has been indicted by a federal grand jury for soliciting the murder of federal officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Deputy Administrator Thomas Harrigan and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York today announced that Michael Filter was extradited from Estonia where he had been arrested for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States and conspiracy to...
