News from November 2014
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Put-in-Bay, OHIO -Perry's Victory will hold open house on December 4 and a community potluck on Monday, December 15 to discuss possible fee increases in 2015. The current park entrance fees have been in place for over 20 years. The entrance fee for individuals over the age of 16 will go from $3 to $7...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Five defendants who were convicted for their respective roles in a health care fraud case involving a chiropractor and a former union representative from the Dallas - Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, were sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Raul Eduardo Rivera de la Torre, 25, of Tucson, Arizona, who was found guilty following a jury trial of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, marijuana, was sentenced to 27 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Anyone Who May Have Been Victimized In This Case Is Asked To Contact FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: An alien who illegally reentered the United States after being deported was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Multi-year Investigation ends in 31 Latin King Members Convicted and Imprisoned for the Gang’s 20 years of Violence and Interstate Drug-Dealing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Lutgarda Mueller, 65, of Gloucester, Virginia, was sentenced today to 40 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, a fine of $5000.00, and forfeiture of more than $500,000.00 in illegal proceeds for participating in a conspiracy to distribute drug analogues and launder money.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) released its FY 2014 Annual Report, which shows the deficit in the agency's multiemployer insurance program has increased from $8.3 billion to $42.4 billion...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in jail and ordered to forfeit firearms involved in the offenses on his conviction of conspiracy to possess firearms by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey sentenced three defendants this morning for their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute the synthetic drugs known as “spice" and “bath salts," announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden, for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Harold Scott, Jr., 27, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced today to life in prison, for enticing and conspiring with multiple women to produce child pornography, among other charges including obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A 40-year-old Fort Worth resident, Christopher Robert Weast, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to serve 30 years in federal prison following his conviction at trial this summer on two felony child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- An Etowah County man pleaded guilty today in federal court to producing child pornography involving two children in north Alabama, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr. and Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Gary Barham, age 52, of Easton, Maryland, today to 11 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretary Kerry: I am writing to request additional information about an apparent cyber-attack against the State Department that was reported this weekend.[1] Press accounts report that, as a result of this suspected attack, the State Department was forced to shut down “its entire unclassified...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Huntington man was sentenced today to three years and five months in federal prison for unlawfully acquiring five guns from a Huntington pawn shop. Estill Timothy Slone, 46, previously pled guilty in federal court in Huntington to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: October was unusually dry with slightly above normal temperatures in the Kenai Fjords area. There was no measurable precipitation at the Seward airport for two-thirds of the month (20 days) leaving the total monthly precipitation far below normal. Combined with the below-normal precipitation that characterized...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Wendell J. Martin, (age: 59), of Keshena, Wisconsin located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2014, to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by a life-time term of supervised release. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea by Martin on August 8, 2014, to count one of a two-count federal indictment charging him with sexually abusing a minor child incapable of declining participation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: ELIZABETH, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Grace H. Park, acting Union County Prosecutor, announced eight people have been arrested and the equivalent of more than 4,300 bricks of heroin with an estimated street value of more than $3 million have been seized following the dismantling of two fully functional, high-volume heroin mills illegally operating in Linden and Union Township.
