News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Raymond Bridges, 53, and Mary Doughty, 65, both residents of Bogalusa, were sentenced yesterday having previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base and misprision of a felony, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Jemel E. Thompson, 25, of Ashtabula, with firearms and drug violations and Maranda M. Rabenold, 31, of Madison, with firearms violations, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A member of a major methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and elsewhere since October 2012, was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Lafayette, Tennessee, man was sentenced today in United States District Court by Senior District Judge Thomas B. Russell to 240 months in prison followed by a three year period of supervised release and ordered to pay $90,800 in restitution, for the robbery of two banks located in Kentucky, and one-count carjacking in Adair County, Kentucky, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Mario Capote-Morejon, 43, and Enrique Artiles-Mata aka Calvo, 54, both of McAllen, and Helvis Artiles, 25, of Mission, have been arrested along with two others on charges related to a cocaine trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former Springfield charter school principal pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to a federal felony in connection with assisting students to cheat on the MCAS.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. B The former president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1235 was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for conspiring to extort longshoremen on the New Jersey piers for Christmastime tribute payments, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Karie Brown, 20, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to charges stemming from a shooting this year at an apartment building in Southeast Washington that seriously wounded an eight-year-old girl, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced five appointments to the 2015 Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Board. Each appointee will serve 3-year terms.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Silicon Valley, like the Silicon Forest in my home state of Oregon, is the launching pad of the digital economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 11 defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Joplin, Mo., area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 17 months in prison for his role in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Division, and Manuel Orosa, Chief, Miami Police Department (MPD), announce charges against 21 members and associates ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. today sentenced Amelio Mack to 19 years and seven months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The Court also ordered him to forfeit two bank accounts, three vehicles, and jewelry, including a 4.8 karat engagement ring, that are traceable to proceeds of the offense. Mack pleaded guilty on May 12, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- The National Park Service and the National Park Foundation are excited to announce the date for the 92nd annual National Christmas Tree Lighting on the White House Ellipse at President’s Park. This year’s kick-off to the holiday season in our nation’s capital will be held Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 5 p.m. Free tickets for the lighting ceremony will be awarded through an online lottery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JUSTIN DOUCET, age 21, a resident of Larose, Louisiana, was sentenced today for receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: A Mexican citizen who was twice convicted using the identity of a dead American citizen who attempted to obtain new identification documents and gain employment in that name was sentenced today to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Division, and Manuel Orosa, Chief, Miami Police Department (MPD), announce charges against 21 members and associates...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 53-year-old Beaumont man has pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. attorney John M. Bales.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today led a letter, along with the top Republicans of the Senate Committees and Subcommittees with jurisdiction over the Endangered Species Act (ESA), to Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, ...
