News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Theodore “Ted" Thomes, 55, and his wife, Renee Thomes, 51, both formerly of Windham, Maine, now of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, pleaded guilty this week, in U.S. District Court, to firearms charges. Ted Thomes was convicted of being a felon in possession of firearms. Renee Thomes was convicted of knowingly transferring firearms to a non-Maine resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Sept. 29, 2014, Devon Cruz, 29, of New York, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Christina Reiss to sixty-nine months imprisonment on his guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. Chief Judge Reiss also ordered that Hercules serve four years on supervised release after his incarceration ends.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Anthony Terrill Williams of Pensacola, Florida was sentenced following a June 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Williams was previously convicted of Possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Graviel Santos, 32, of Pawtucket, was sentenced on Wednesday to 84 months in federal prison on drug trafficking and firearm charges, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Pawtucket Police Chief Paul King.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Edward J. Ryan, the Special Agent in Charge of the United States Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General, announced that JAMES CARSON, a former New York City Police Department (“NYPD") officer...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today made the following statement on the resignation of U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson following yesterday’s hearing before the Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Hunterdon County, New Jersey, man was arrested at his home by U.S. Marshals this morning on a charge that he allegedly sexually abused a woman at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Acquisition of a Controlled Substance by Misrepresentation, Fraud, Forgery, Deception, and Subterfuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: - Collaborative Efforts To Aggressively Investigate And Prosecute The Illegal Trafficking of Persons into Forced Labor.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -The National Park Service is participating in this year's National Coming Out Day, an internationally recognized observed civil awareness day celebrating individuals who publicly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), or as an ally. To commemorate the event, the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site is hosting an open mic event on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014, to share the LGBTQ story, history, and experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Garry.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Dear Ambassador Rice and Director Donovan.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden today awarded 17 grants in 12 states to help small, socially disadvantaged agricultural producers expand their operations and create jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are currently conducting a search and rescue operation in and around the Cedar Grove area for Rommel and Marisol Pompa who failed to return from their backpacking trip as scheduled on Monday, Sept. 29. The married couple planned to hike the Rae Lakes Loop, departing from Cedar Grove on the Woods Creek trail and returning via the Bubbs Creek trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was filed yesterday charging six people, including a couple and their daughter, in a wide-reaching mortgage fraud conspiracy in which the defendants allegedly stripped the equity from the homes of desperate homeowners facing foreclosure, announced United States Attorney Zane...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Eugene Domenico, 61, of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty to three counts of theft from a health care benefit program, before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carry a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of $100,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation, and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, HILDA PARKER, 57, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release for wire fraud by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III. She was also ordered to pay $128,983.45 in restitution due in full immediately. PARKER previously pled guilty to that charge on May 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - A Mason City, Ill., woman, Denise A. Taylor, 42, of the 400 block of S. Keefer Street, appeared in federal court today in Peoria, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. Taylor was arrested yesterday on the indictment returned by the grand jury last...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence, R.I., on Tuesday returned a one-count indictment charging Alan Bradley, 53, of Newport, R.I., with operating a motor vehicle in reckless disregard of the safety of others resulting in the death of another person.
