News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell yesterday sentenced Bryan Bobby Beaudoin (25, Orlando) to 11 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit robbery and using a firearm in furtherance of the armed robbery. The Court also ordered Beaudoin to forfeit $6,277, which represents the proceeds from the sale of stolen jewelry and the firearm used in the robbery. He pleaded guilty on July 31, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that six people were indicted by a federal grand jury in Scranton Oct. 21, 2014 for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy in the Luzerne County area since February 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office and the local Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in consultation with Justice Department Headquarters, are prepared to receive and review allegations of election fraud and voting rights abuses related to the upcoming November elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Noah R. Scribner, 22, of Palmyra, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with distribution of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a fine of up to $250,000.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: Washington - In recognition of October as National Cooperative Month, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that U.S. farmer, rancher and fishery cooperatives set records for sales, income and assets in 2012, buoyed by strong prices for grain, farm supplies and many other agricultural commodities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 35-year-old Philadelphia man was sentenced to 57 months in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in the Hazleton area of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Jose Fabian Felix-Burgos, 41, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced yesterday to 115 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Felix-Burgos to pay a $400 fine. Felix-Burgos pleaded guilty to the charge on June 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States filed a civil injunction complaint in Manhattan federal court against five individuals, LESTER MORRISON, PAULETTE BULLOCK, GARY HANNA, JOY DAVID, and KEVIN VADEN, who were previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - ― Dennis Wichern, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, which includes Wisconsin, and United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a federal grand jury recently returned an 11count indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: Former patient of Dr. Nibedita Mohanty snorted up to 150 pills a day and distributed large portions of pills for profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Antwan M. Grissett, 44, of Youngstown, with possession and attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Sandra R. Powers, 57, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to one year and one day imprisonment by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for a bank larceny involving $125,815. Powers was ordered to surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons by January 8, 2015 to commence serving her sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Toribio Cruz-Galvan (Cruz), 29, an undocumented alien from Michoacàn, Mexico, charging him with conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, and damaging public land and natural resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: A seven-count indictment was filed today accusing a former Copley resident of stealing more than $1.5 million from healthcare plans he administered and using the money to pay for bonuses, operating expenses, luxury car leases and a country club membership, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Ricky Williams, 23, of Charleston, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, to four months in federal prison. Williams plead guilty on August 4, 2014, to the distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The owners of Out of Africa Adventurous Safaris were charged with conspiracy to sell illegal rhinoceros hunts in South Africa in order to defraud American hunters, money laundering and secretly trafficking in rhino horns, announced Sam Hirsch Acting Assistant Attorney General for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; along with David Downing, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced the arraignment of 27 defendants in a 78-count indictment charging 33 defendants with prescription drug charges. One defendant, Timmy Larvale McCain, 38, of Little Rock, was also charged with a weapons charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Oct. 23, 2014, Russell Lee Brossart, age 42, of Muscatine, Iowa, was sentenced to 168 month in prison by Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner for conspiracy to distribute at least 500 grams of a mixture of substance containing methamphetamine and at least 50 grams...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service (NPS) is investing $29 million in 81 individual energy efficiency and water conservation projects at national parks throughout the greater Washington region. This unprecedented commitment to reducing energy use and generating energy from renewable sources is the largest to-date among the nine bureaus in the Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: Felipe Baez-Vasquez, 26, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Oct. 23, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Baez-Vasquez was arrested in Jackson, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered to pay...
