News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Lake Charles man pleaded guilty to a charge that he lied to federal agents in order to blame his wife for a fake terror plot.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: As part of President Obama’s effort to increase safe and responsible domestic oil production, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it will hold an oil and gas lease sale for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) on Wednesday, Nov. 19, in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - PETER GIAMBALVO was convicted of obstructing the internal revenue laws and filing false tax returns for the years 2003-2010. The three-day trial was held before United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robbins & Myers Belgium, S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Robbins & Myers, Inc., pled guilty today to four counts of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Export Administration Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kashika Speed, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of robbery and extortion, was sentenced to 16 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), New Mexico State Office, announced today that joint efforts by the BLM, the Department of Justice, and the Hopi Tribe have resulted in the repatriation, or return, of four sacred objects to the tribe. The culturally significant items were relinquished by a private...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced the arrests of Omar Andrade, 29, of Norwalk, Joel A. Estrella-Disla, 24, and Wilmer Antonio Gomez-Rodriguez, 28, both of New York, N.Y., on heroin trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: A felon who discarded a gun while fleeing from police was sentenced on Oct. 1, 2014 to over six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - On Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, Chief District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis sentenced Scott Bass, 41, to 16 months imprisonment, one year of supervised release and a $100.00 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Oct. 2, 2014, Thomas Richard Jager, age 66, of Bettendorf, Iowa, was sentenced by United States Chief District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 97 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to four counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. McDaniel...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that it filed a Notice of Intent to Seek the Death Penalty in United States of America v. Jessie Con-Ui.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned three indictments today for charges of trafficking cocaine and heroin and cultivating marijuana in a national forest, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - The president of American Commercial Colleges, Inc. (ACC), Doyle Brent Sheets, 58, of Lubbock, Texas, who pleaded guilty, personally and on behalf of ACC, to federal charges, was sentenced this morning, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Mattapan man was sentenced today for distributing child pornography through the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Jarod “Bull" Michel, 31...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ryan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Brent Douglas Cole, 61, of Nevada County, charging him with assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon which inflicted bodily injury, assault on a person assisting a federal officer with a deadly weapon which inflicted bodily injury, and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Judge Considers Evidence Defendant Committed Murder In Vietnam.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brian E. Thompson, 53, a former loan guarantee specialist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, pled guilty today to a charge stemming from a scheme in which he stole $843,000 of government money.
