News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Antowan Thorne, also known as “Smooth," 37, of Washington, DC, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Nov. 14, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced that on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, Glenn P. Lowers pled guilty in U.S. District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the State of Utah has pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to a charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Sneha Ramesh Mohammadi, 52, of Bakersfield, to 18 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for her involvement in an extensive mortgage fraud scheme that ran from January 2004 to September 2007, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today. Judge O’Neill also ordered her to join her co-defendants in paying $10,747,073 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today a Nixa, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for producing child pornography. Michael John Kinney, 40, of Nixa, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Richard Dwyer, 29, of Barker, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to import alpha-PVP, a synthetic narcotic, was sentenced to 33 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Federal Judge Says Lying On The Witness Stand Results In Prison Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Gregory E. Grantham, age 57, of Oceanside, California, today to five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud and obstruction of justice. Judge Motz also ordered Grantham to forfeit/ pay restitution of $17.4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Following a law enforcement operation led by the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division (DPS-CID), 37 individuals have been charged with federal offenses stemming from their respective roles in a drug distribution conspiracy that operated in North Texas and elsewhere from January 2013 to October 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Mark S. Parks (age: 40) of Denmark, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison by Chief United States District Court Judge William C. Griesbach. Parks had previously pled guilty to a single count...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA:Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is advising the public that the actual road closures for this project will begin in February 2015 and continue through June 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Come see the night sky the way it used to look before city lights crowded out the stars. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument offers an ideal balance between convenient location -an easy drive from Colorado Springs-and a sky dark enough to reveal the countless stars that once lit the night for our ancestors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, Nov. 10, 2014, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Tyson Maurice Brown, 27, of Portland, Oregon, to 57 months in federal prison, after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Brown will also be on three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Saleem Elamin, also known as Tariq El-Amin, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for an armed robbery of a woman he attacked and cut with a knife at a Northwest Washington laundromat, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lamont Terry, 40, formerly of Columbia, S.C., was sentenced today to 20 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to killing a man during an attempted robbery on Memorial Day of 1992 in East Potomac Park, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: The potential for producing butanol as a biofuel has become a bit more promising, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their partners. Work by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemical engineer Nasib Qureshi suggests that barley straw and corn stover-both agricultural byproducts-could...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, Nov. 10, 2014, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Tyson Maurice Brown, 27, of Portland, Oregon, to 57 months in federal prison, after he pleaded uilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Brown will also be on three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Justin Turcheck, 29, of Abilene, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 78 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2014 to one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
