News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Jan Alan Shafer, 63, of Oroville, charging him with receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 59-year-old Lindale, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for embezzling bank funds in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Terry L. Daugherty, 49, of Nellis, West Virginia pled guilty in federal court in Charleston today to aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Daugherty admitted that he arranged the delivery of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Leeann Corley, 29, of Dayton, Ohio, pleaded guilty to importing 32,767 pills containing methamphetamine, MDMA and BZP into the United States from Canada before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, a fine of $10,000,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to 75 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A total of nine people have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in relation to a drug trafficking organization responsible for the distribution of thousands of kilograms of marijuana and hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Seven Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang members from Houston and Dallas were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the violent ABT enterprise, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Today, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office sold 19 parcels totaling 5,103 acres for $94,833 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The highest per-acre price was for a 160-acre parcel in Weld County, sold to Colorado Energy Minerals in Denver for $60 per acre.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tavon Barber, 19, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of charges stemming from a pair of home invasions he committed within a roughly 20-hour period in Northeast Washington, including one in which he sexually assaulted a woman, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: SAN DIEGO - DEA, with the assistance of the Chula Vista Police Department and San Diego County HazMat, conducted a search warrant at 754 Broadway, Apartment 23, Chula Vista, CA. There was no one present in the residence at the time authorities entered and there have been no arrests at this time. Inside...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Charles Keith Rolfe (60, Heyburn, Idaho) to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. The Court also ordered Rolfe to serve a lifetime term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence. A restitution hearing for his victims is scheduled for Jan. 13, 2015. Rolfe pleaded guilty on June 27, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today built upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess by sending three more pieces of legislation to the president’s desk for signature. The House today approved by unanimous consent the Senate versions of three House-passed bills: the E-LABEL Act (S. 2583), the Sunscreen Innovation Act (S. 2141), and the Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act (S. 2539).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: An owner of a Miami home health care company pleaded guilty today for his role in a $30 million home health Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 49-year-old man, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to two years in prison for a recent attack in which he shocked his wife with a Taser at their apartment, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sean Costigan, 51, of Pawtucket, was sentenced on Wednesday to 96 months in federal prison for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine. Costigan was arrested in January 2014, when DEA Drug Task Force agents and detectives from the Warwick and Newport Police Departments executed a court authorized search of a Newport motel room rented by Costigan and seized materials being used to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 15 Columbia, Mo., residents are among 27 defendants who have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in Boone County, Mo., and a conspiracy to promote prostitution in Boone County.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Bonita Witt-Hird, 60, of Thorpe (McDowell County) West Virginia, pled guilty today in federal court in Charleston to filing fraudulent water quality reports.
