News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Indianapolis man sentenced to 336 months for exploiting local minor females.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANTHONIE R. SPARROW was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 65 months in prison for his role in perpetrating a $16 million fraudulent investment scheme that victimized hundreds of investors around the world. SPARROW pled guilty in February 2014 to wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet imposed today’s sentence.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a 1-hour, ranger-led program at 11 am on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014.This program will discuss General Philip Sheridan's ride from Winchester to Cedar Creek, Virginia.Please meet at Bragg Reservation, located on historic Missionary Ridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - PATRICIA HOEHN allegedly wrote prescriptions for hydrocodone for three different people representing that they were prescribed by a licensed medical doctor. She is also charged with attempting to destroy her cellular telephone so that investigators could not find information about her diversion of these controlled substances.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Oct. 6, 2014 Morning Star Brown, 32, Fort Yates, N.D., was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve 6 ½ years in prison for voluntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Roberts Chemical Company Admitted To Failing To Minimize The Chance Of Release Of Ethyl Ether, Protect Worker And Community Safety, And Develop A “worst Case" Response Plan At A Former Pawtucket Plant.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A California man who distributed heroin, methamphetamine, and oxycodone in Charleston and Summersville, West Virginia in 2012 and 2013 was sentenced today to 15 years and eight months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Donnell Dwayne Diego, 34, of San Diego...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Oct. 1, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Last Friday, LAWRENCE GENE BOTHWELL, 34, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, TOMMY LYNN RICHARDSON, 50, of Ninnekah, Oklahoma, and KENNETH BOYCE, 54, of Pleasant View, Utah, entered guilty pleas related to fraudulent investment scheme to market a pharmaceutical ointment, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Acting Superintendent Kym Hall announced today demolition is underway of the former "Pavilion" structure at Wright Brothers National Memorial.The contractor, Florida Exposition Services, has experience in removal of the type of structure.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Ronnie Gene Wilson, age 67, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to conspiracy to obstruct justice, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs of Greenville accepted the plea and will impose sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Assaulting a Federal Officer.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of eight members of “The Crew," a North Minneapolis-based heroin trafficking organization, for conspiring to distribute heroin in Minneapolis. The indictment is the result of an investigation conducted by the Southwest Hennepin Drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Chaval Williams, age 53, of Centennial, CO, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 74 months in federal prison for wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering federal authorities announced. Following his prison sentence, Williams was ordered to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: TUSCALOOSA - The Public Interest Law Institute of the University of Alabama School of Law is beginning a monthly legal service project to assist individuals under the supervision of the Tuscaloosa office of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Summers can be quiet in southern Arizona parks, but as the temperature drops, the visitors and volunteers return."Tumacácori has a very busy calendar in the coming months," says Superintendent Bob Love, "Fall is a perfect time to enjoy the mission, river, and new programming the park has developed.".

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Mary Jane Pace, 49, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today to three years probation and 90 days home detention for distributing a controlled substance, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Pace appeared today before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: ~~VICTORIA, Texas - Garrett Vincent Riedesel, 24, of Victoria, has been sentenced for his conviction of one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Riedesel, a federal firearms licensee who owned Garrett’s Gun Vault in Victoria, pleaded guilty July 8, 2014. The store is now closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: MONROE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a West Monroe man was sentenced to 93 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine that was ready to sell.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
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