News from October 2014
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A 22-year-old Austrian man wanted by Austrian authorities for murdering his mother was arrested Thursday by a team of investigators from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Marshals Service and the Portland Police Bureau.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Derry, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, the first six months of which will be home detention with electronic monitoring, and 100 hours of community service, on her conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Doree McGee, 39, of Los Angeles, California, who was convicted of bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, was sentenced to 65 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $326,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment today charging Omar Gonzalez with three additional offenses stemming from a recent incident in which he ran into the White House while armed with a folding knife.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA), Ranking Member of the Committee's Transportation Security Subcommittee, released the below statements on the retirement on John S. Pistole as the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Kankakee, Ill., man, Joshua N. Bisping, 33, has been ordered to serve 10 years in federal prison for his engagement in a murder-for-hire plot against his ex-wife, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. U.S. District Judge Harold Baker today sentenced Bisping...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Final Defendant of Sophisticated, Violent Fraudulent Document Ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROHAN WIJETILAKA was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti in White Plains federal court to three years in prison for health care fraud. WIJETILAKA, who previously pled guilty in June 2014, was also ordered by Judge Briccetti to pay a total of $2 million in forfeiture and restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Michael John Baigert, Jr., 21, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, pled guilty today to four counts of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A federal grand jury in Benton, Illinois, has charged Stephen B. Mislich, 23, of Bowling Green, Ohio, and formerly of Altamont, Illinois, with 4 counts of computer-related harassment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Mark Edward Elliott (52), of Deatsville, Ala., was sentenced on Oct. 15, 2014 to serve 210 months in prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas -As part of the draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) and draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices, the Bureau of Land Management will host five public meetings the first two weeks of November.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the retirement of Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ -National Park Service (NPS) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) fire managers, working together as the North Zone Interagency Fire Management Program, anticipate initiating prescribed fire treatment during the fall and winter months as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, sentenced Joshua Minix (a.k.a. “Face"), 38, of Rutland, Vermont to 87 months imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin in the Rutland area and possessing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Bernard Ogie Oretekor, a/k/a “Emmanuel Libs," and Chantale Petit-Frere were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday for stealing money from multiple victims through an email takeover scam and “Nigerian Fraud" scheme, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service will hold its annual celebration of Fort Hancock Days on Friday, October 24 and Sunday, October 26. Fort Hancock Days commemorates the naming of the Fortifications at Sandy Hook as "Fort Hancock" in October, 1895. The historic fort now constitutes Gateway National Recreation Area's Sandy Hook Unit. In 1982 the entire peninsula was designated the "Fort Hancock Sandy Hook Proving Ground National Historic Landmark.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez will take the Oath of Office at 3:00 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, during an investiture ceremony at the U.S. District Courthouse, 333 Lomas Blvd. NW, Albuquerque, N.M. The ceremony will take place in the Rio Grande Courtroom.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Trial set December16, 2014 in Boise.
