News published on Federal Newswire in October 2014

News from October 2014


News Release: A man who was arrested after a six-hour stand-off with the U.S. Marshal’s Service was sentenced on Oct. 20, 2014 on his tenth felony drug conviction to more than 30 years in federal prison.


Convicted Tampa Sex Offender Pleads Guilty To Second Federal Charge Of Failure To Register As A Sex Offender

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Kevin Robert Leblanc (52, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to failing to register as sex offender after traveling from Florida to the State of Arizona. He faces up to ten years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Leblanc has been in custody for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release since his arrest on Aug. 15, 2014.


News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to more than 23 years in prison for his role in a large-scale cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.


News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.


News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that criminal charges were filed against Pennsylvania Coin, LLC, a Pennsylvania corporation, in U.S. District Court in Williamsport yesterday.


News Release: Submitted False Documents Defrauding Bank And Federal Insurers.


Fort Mill Woman Pleads Guilty to Lying to Federal Agents

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Kirstie Elaine Philome Barratt, age 22, of Fort Mill, South Carolina pled guilty as charged today in federal court. Barratt plead guilty to making a false statement to a federal agent, in violation of Title 18, United...


NIST Offers Electronics Industry Two Ways to Snoop on Self-Organizing Molecules

News Release: A few short years ago, the idea of a practical manufacturing process based on getting molecules to organize themselves in useful nanoscale shapes seemed. well, cool, sure, but also a little fantastic. Now the day isn't far off when your cell phone may depend on it. Two recent papers emphasize the point...


News Release: -Defendant Shot Victim Repeatedly-. WASHINGTON - Demonta Chappell, 23, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of first-degree murder while armed and other charges stemming from a slaying that took place in 2012 in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced. Chappell...


News Release: Terre Haute man found guilty of robbing Farmersburg bank.


Eau Claire Felon Sentenced to 6 Years for Illegally Possessing Firearm

News Release: MADISON, WIS. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew Weiland, 23, Eau Claire, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to six years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. Weiland pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 14, 2014.


BLM Oil and Gas Lease Sale Nets Over $4 Million from Parcels in Sandoval and Rio Arriba Counties

News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted over $4 million in revenues from the sale of 13 Federal leases of U.S. Forest Service subsurface acreage...


Two Wheeling Area Men Indicted On Firearms Charges

News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.


NOAA’s new Lake Level Viewer aids Great Lakes community planning

News Release: The easy-to-use, interactive tool was developed by the National Ocean Service ’s Office for Coastal Management as part of its Digital Coast initiative.


News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.


News Release: As of 5:00 pm, Oct. 22, ignitions are complete on 700 acres of the Mosquito Prescribed Burn in Sequoia National Park. Ignitions will continue on the remaining 785 acres throughout the next several days.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A McKees Rocks resident has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, including six months home detention with electronic monitoring on her conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Four Members Of Heroin Distribution Ring Plead Guilty

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Reginald Jones, age 26, of Bronx, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. Co-defendant Jeffrey Michael Anderson, age 35, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to distribute and possess...


Citrus County Man Arrested on Federal Firearms, Ammunition, and Explosives Charges

News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest yesterday of Michael Paul Watkins (41, Citrus Springs) on a criminal complaint alleging the possession of firearms and ammunition by a previously convicted felon, and the possession and manufacturing of unregistered destructive devices. Each offense carries a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison.


El Paso Couple Plead Guilty To Inducing Foreign Or Interstate Travel For Prostitution

News Release: In El Paso, 45-year-old Maria Blake (aka “Jessica", “Yvonne") and her 45-year-old husband, Ronald, face up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal charges involving foreign or interstate travel for prostitution announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Dennis Ulrich and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.