News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in Huntington, West Virginia announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Steven Edward Lewis, also known as “Rico," 27, who previously pleaded guilty in July of 2014 to conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, was sentenced to five years in federal prison by Chief Judge Robert C. Chambers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Bismarck - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Oct. 14, 2014, Brett See Walker, age 28, Fort Yates, ND, was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve 24 months imprisonment for Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park will be conducting towpath repairs from mile marker 5 (Lock 5) to mile marker 7 (Lock 7). Repairs include fixing eroded towpath areas, as well as resurfacing of the towpath. Work will take place during the hours of 6:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M, Monday through...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH- A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Brandon Ferrell, age 23, and Stephanie Amber Smith, age 24, both of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to an armed robbery of a convenience store on Sept. 27, 2013, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. The couple admitted that they also committed three other armed convenience store robberies two days later.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two-count Indictment in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Athens Division, charging Steven Maurice McKinley, also known as “Stevo," aged 21, of Athens, Georgia, with Attempt to Kill a Federal Officer (Count One) and Discharge and Use of a Firearm during a Federal Crime of Violence (Count Two).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Frank Anthony Morton, was convicted of two federal drug trafficking offenses, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine, by a federal jury on Oct. 10, 2014, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An Oklahoma man who was stopped with a pound of heroin hidden in the car pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal drug charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA:Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is advising the public that between November 2014 and June 2015, sections of LaFayette Road will be closed in order to complete asphalt resurfacing, bridge restoration projects, and the replacement of the Reed's Bridge Road/McFarland...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of a Nevada, Mo., business pleaded guilty in federal court today to failing to pay over more than $357,000 in federal taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A pharmacist with a compounding pharmacy in Lakewood, New Jersey, admitted today to paying tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes to physicians for referring pain cream prescriptions, defrauding health care benefit programs out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Rochelle Biesenthal, 64, of Brigantine, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in prison. On May 28, 2014, Ms. Biesenthal pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and three counts of tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that a federal jury in Burlington on Friday found Patricia Merz, 57, of Niskayuna, New York, guilty on charges of conspiracy, interstate transportation of stolen money, wire fraud and forgery after a three-day trial in U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two Central Valley men are now in federal custody after a Fresno grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging them with armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ernest Joe Marquez, 46, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced in Las Cruces federal court this morning to 130 months in federal prison followed by five of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Lamar Powell, 60, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a southwestern Connecticut narcotics trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Middle District of North Carolina United States Attorney Ripley Rand announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Robert M. Hamilton will lead the efforts of the United States Attorney’s Office in connection with the Justice Department=s nationwide Election Day Program for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that ZACHARY ZWERKO was arrested on securities fraud charges stemming from...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ERNEST D. DAVIS, the mayor of the City of Mount Vernon, pled guilty in White Plains federal court to failing to file corporate and personal income tax returns. DAVIS surrendered today and entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul E. Davison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Tuesday to 92 months in federal prison for trafficking in methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
