News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Clint Michael Landry, 57, of Fairbanks, Alaska, charging him with attempted production of child pornography, and attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.
By State Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Dear President Bach: The decision of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee to grant provisional recognition to the Republic of Kosovo’s National Olympic Committee is cause for celebration. International sport is the continuation of diplomacy by other means as it unites people in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles, District of South Carolina announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSA) Barbara M. Bowens and John Potterfield will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Nasser Ali Ghanem, 34 of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to unauthorized acquisition of food stamp benefits. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Two metro-east women have been sentenced in federal court for their convictions of theft of public funds (unemployment fraud), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport man and a Texas man were sentenced Thursday to 219 months and 168 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution operation that stretched from Natchitoches, La., to Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney William N. Nettles, stated today that, earlier this week, two Aiken men, Jesse James Quarles, 33, and Kenneth Islar, 27, each entered guilty pleas in federal court in Columbia to the charge of felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- At the request of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina (USASC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the ASPCA® (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is assisting with a federal operation involving drugs and dog fighting in and around the Columbia, S.C. area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Christopher Williams, age 28, from Conyers, Georgia, and David Birdsong, aged 32, from Lithia Springs, Georgia, were sentenced on Oct. 22, 2014, to serve nearly four years (45 months) imprisonment and pay restitution in the amount of $700. The sentences were handed down by the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior United States District Judge, in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Nick Wright, age 43 and Jerry Vaden, age 43, both of Gates, Tenn., were indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges of mail fraud, structuring cash transactions to avoid reporting requirements, false statements to federal agents and obstruction of justice, announced Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee and 25th District Attorney General Mike Dunavant.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Dillion Wayne Bailey, 30, of Albion, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with one count of possessing with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Homewood section of the City of Pittsburgh and other communities in the Greater Pittsburgh area, 40 people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Dallas woman was sentenced to 41 months in prison for her role in a cocaine conspiracy in Northwest Louisiana and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: MIAMI - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce the filing of a superseding indictment charging Yuri Sucart, 52, of Miami, FL, Juan Carlos Nuñez, 48, of Fort...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Aurora, Colorado, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, announce that La Toya Yvette Tillman, 33, of Hollywood, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA -- Assistant United States Attorney Christopher P. Canova will lead the efforts of the United States Attorney's Office in connection with the Justice Department’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Brunswick, GA: Jerry Barnett, 64, of Brunswick, Georgia, was sentenced this week by United States District Court Chief Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to serve 5 months in prison and 5 months’ house arrest, to repay $82,864 in stolen proceeds, and to forfeit an additional $75,000 after earlier pleading guilty to stealing just over $82,000 in Social Security and Medicare benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: A man who committed multiple frauds was convicted by a jury Oct. 23, 2014, after a three-day trial in federal court in Sioux City.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pilot plant for studying cotton textiles located at the Southern Regional Research Center (SRRC) in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been upgraded. Materials engineer Christopher Delhom has successfully "reimagined" some of the pilot plant's cotton processing equipment.
