News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough today sentenced James Marshall Owens, 44, of Owaneco, Ill., to 12 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a minor. Owens, a former Taylorville school bus driver, was also ordered to remain on supervised release for 20 years following his term of imprisonment. Owens has remained in law enforcement custody since his arrest in May 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, today issued the following statement on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s FY2014 Annual Report...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - RANDALL HINTON was indicted in August on multiple fraud charges involving his scheme to alter and counterfeit documents in order to obtain state issued motor vehicle titles for himself and others. Last week, twelve additional individuals were indicted in two separate indictments for their part in the use of the altered and counterfeited documents to obtain motor vehicle titles and motor vehicle title loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - One of the alleged leaders of the Beltran Leyva Organization, a Mexican drug-trafficking cartel responsible for importing multi-ton quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine into the United States, was extradited to the United States from Mexico on Nov. 15, 2014, and made an initial appearance this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay of the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Robert Wendell Landis, 29, of Norristown, Pennsylvania was charged by superseding indictment, unsealed today, with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Leroy Lumpkin Wilson, also known as Brian Knowles and B. K., 33, of Lexington, Kentucky, pled guilty in federal court in Huntington today to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin. Wilson admitted that between as early...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Linda M. Avila, 50, of Frankford, DE, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to obtain payment for false claims and mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia M. Howard today sentenced Abass Issa to 38 months in federal prison and Antoun Arbaji to 24 months in federal prison for theft of government property. The court also ordered each to serve a three-year term of supervision following their incarceration, and to repay the United States a total of $1,566,819.45 in restitution. Arbaji and Issa pleaded guilty on May 27, 2014, and June 26, 2014, respectively.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: The Hatteras Island Visitor Center and Bookstore at the Cape Hatteras Light Station, located in Buxton, NC and approximately 48 miles south of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore's northern entrance, will be closed beginning Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014 through Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014 for needed cleaning and repairs.The Museum of the Sea will be open to the visiting public on Thursday, November 20 -Sunday, November 23.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: SPOKANE - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that James Gene Poindexter, age 26, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty on Sept. 2, 2014 to Production and Distribution of Child Pornography. Senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Christopher D. Norman, 34, of Ranger, West Virginia, was sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison for his involvement in the distribution of oxycodone in Lincoln County, West Virginia. The sentenced was imposed by United States District Court Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), senior Democrat on the committee, praised the Senate’s passage of a bill to improve and reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 24 months in jail on his conviction of possession of contraband in prison, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today at the American Action Forum, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called for dynamic scoring to be used to evaluate any major reform, including an overhaul of the tax code, so that the proposal’s macroeconomic effects can be fully assessed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: SPOKANE - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Joshua Nicholas Higgins, age 25, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty of Production of Child Pornography. Senior United States District Court Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Defendant Falsely Claimed To Be An Experienced Investment Advisor And Lost His Victims’ Savings Gambling On Sports.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Nov. 17, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Gregory K. Null, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 14 months in jail on his conviction of possession of contraband in prison, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced SHAQUAN DONDREL MANSON, 19, of Oxford to 146 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release. The court also imposed a fine.
