News from October 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A federal jury in Dallas has convicted two brothers on multiple felony offenses stemming from their operation of a dangerous, designer synthetic drug trafficking organization, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a 38-year-old man was indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Charleston for offenses related to the murder of a prosecution witness. According to the seven-count indictment, Marlon Dewayne Dixon, of Charleston, W.Va. distributed ...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jesse.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: FAIRBANKS - The Bureau of Land Management’s Eastern Interior Field Office has selected Fairbanks author Ned Rozell as its summer Artist in Residence for 2014. The BLM will host Rozell Aug. 20-30 at historic Fort Egbert in the Yukon River community of Eagle, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HARLAND FIELDS, 28, of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet...

By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that south Texas onion producers will vote from Nov. 3 - 17, 2014, on whether to continue their federal marketing order.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Defendants in a mortgage fraud conspiracy involving KREW Settlement Services were sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Berle M. Schiller for their roles in the multi-million dollar scheme involving more than 100 fraudulent mortgage loans. Eric Sijohn Brown, 46, of Philadelphia...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Two Detroit men and a Redford Township man were sentenced yesterday after being convicted at trial in a case involving armed carjacking to support a chop shop, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Following an eight-day trial, the jury convicted a college friend of alleged Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, for making false statements to investigators assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John C.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Michael L. Wolfenbarger, age 42, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Anderson, South Carolina, for wire fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. ? 1343. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain sentenced Wolfenbarger to 37 months imprisonment and ordered him to pay $1.3 million in restitution.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Oct. 27, 2014, Antuan D. Perkins, a/k/a “Little Man," 22, of Carbondale, made his initial appearance in federal court in Benton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Brent R. Heinrich, 41, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possession with intent to distribute 300 grams of a mixture and substance containing the controlled substance analogue alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (“a-PVP"), more commonly known as “bath salts," which were intended for human consumption, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Frederick Drane, 48, of Biddeford, Maine, was sentenced on Monday in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on one count of conspiracy to possess in excess of 28 grams of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it, and one count of possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it. The Court imposed a term of 15 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by 8 years of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of 25 members of a bank fraud conspiracy in which conspirators stole or attempted to steal more than $2 million by manufacturing counterfeit checks and cashing them, along with other fraudulent checks, at dozens of banks and check...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Defendants Also Face Perjury And Firearm Charges.