News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to a nearly $3 million fraud scheme that forced her employer out of business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that Gary Joseph Conti, 68, of Three Forks, a former Oklahoma State University professor who was part of a multi-million dollar tribal corruption and fraud case on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, was sentenced to five years in federal...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Public Comment Sought for Potential Fee Increases at Craters of the Moon National Monument.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Videos featuring animated-cartoon teens learning about nutrition may help real-life teens eat more veggies, according to a study by scientists funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE - Deputy Interior Secretary Michael Connor today signed the final patent for the transfer of 10,170 acres of land to the Nunamiut Corporation, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act corporation for the village of Anaktuvuk Pass. The patent fulfils the corporation’s final land entitlement under...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Oct. 22, 2014, Joshua Jonas Edward Miller, age 33, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 96 months in prison by United States District Judge John A. Jarvey for conspiracy to distribute at least 280 grams of cocaine base announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. He was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release following the imprisonment, and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Oct. 22, 2014, Domenic “John" Pighetti, age 70, of Polk City, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to five years in prison for knowingly possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Pighetti...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was indicted Wednesday in federal court here on a charge of robbing a convenience store, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that James O'Neal Arthur, Jr., age 57, of North Augusta, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to Possession of Child Pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252S(a)(5)(B). United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Oct. 21, 2014, Craig Duane Ellis, a 35 year-old resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 70 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Ellis was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release following the imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Joshua Payne, age 21, of Mount Airy, Maryland, today to 164 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on four counts of robbery and one count of using a firearm during a robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in December 2012, just five days after he was convicted of armed robbery of two banks and attempting to rob two others in 2007 and 2008, was sentenced today to 36 years in federal prison. Approximately $547,000 stolen in the two robberies remains missing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: In Fatal 2007 Shootings at Nisur Square in Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: In Fatal 2007 Shootings at Nisur Square in Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Brandon Thompson, aka “Mouser", of Wilkinsburg, Pa., was convicted of conspiring to distribute in excess of 100 grams of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew yesterday sentenced Steven Richard Romel (32, Kissimmee) to 11 years in federal prison for enticement of a child for sex. The Court also ordered Romel to forfeit a phone and an iPad, that he had used to commit the offense. Romel pleaded guilty on July 8, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Richard Thomas Kramer, age 23, and Kristina Lynn Gates, age 21, both of Harrisburg were indicted today and charged with counterfeiting offenses. Specifically, Kramer was charging with both manufacturing counterfeit obligations of the United States and passing counterfeit obligations of the United States. Gates was charged with passing counterfeit obligations of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. -Jose Fuentes, 43, of Providence, was sentenced today to 77 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Divisionof the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
