News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: HELENA- Seven investigators and the U.S. Attorney's Office trial team in the Jordan Graham murder investigation received a total of fourteen awards from Montana U.S. Attorney Mike Cotter today. The awards honor law enforcement in Montana who demonstrate integrity, candor, fairness and reliability in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Damian Deshane Wardell, a/k/a “Fray Fray," 40, of Tulsa, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Claire V. Eagan to serve 92 months in federal prison on charges related to child sex trafficking, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Feldis announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for four counts of passing counterfeit money. The defendant manufactured and passed counterfeit money at local stores all over Anchorage.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can now make anyone working with nanoparticles very happy. NIST recently issued Reference Material (RM) 8027, the smallest known reference material ever created for validating measurements of these man-made, ultrafine particles between 1 and 100 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in size.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ravi Sabharwal, 58, of Williamsville, N.Y., who was convicted of filing a false tax return, was sentenced to time serve and one year probation to include six months home confinement by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: The Water Power Program today awarded $6.5 million to a Prize Administration Team led by Ricardo Inc. of Van Buren Township, Michigan for the development and execution of the Energy Department’s Wave Energy Conversion (WEC) Prize Competition.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Initial Tasks under IDIQ Contract Total $29 Million to Operate Newly Established Federally Funded Research and Development Center
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - On Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, U.S. District Judge Margaret B. Seymour sentenced Joenathan Shelly Chaplin, an attorney in Columbia, S.C. to three years of probation for making a false statement to a federal agent, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit yesterday affirmed the convictions and sentence of Lydia Cladek (70, St. Augustine). On Jan. 26, 2012, a federal jury found Cladek guilty of conspiracy to commit...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Grand Teton National Park rangers will implement several actions to protect both people and moose in the Gros Ventre campground. The area will be posted with signs urging people to keep their distance from moose, camping will be consolidated within a few campground loops, and rangers will step up patrols...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of 12 members of the Penaloza drug trafficking organization for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana in Minnesota. The indictment is the result of a three-year investigation, which was a collaborative effort between...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - The last defendant convicted in a drug conspiracy that distributed large quantities of methamphetamine in north Texas was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Dallas. Jesus Velasquez, aka “Chuy," 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to 270 months (22.5 years) in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DONALD GLENN, 42, formerly of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Arrested On Ski Trip In Canada After Female Students Discovered Camera Hidden In Their Bedroom.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled, “DOL's Use...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Arnold Rojas Rivas, 46, a businessman from San Antonio, Texas, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for a scheme in which he defrauded a federal agency and a private company of nearly $1.7 million, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 18, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 30 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Today DEA and ATF agents and officers of the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), executed the arrest warrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Roxanna Foley, 53, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 30 months in prison for embezzlement by a bank employee and ordered to pay $315,000 in restitution, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that FRANK FRABBIELE, 79, of Abita Springs, Louisiana pleaded guilty today to a two-count Bill of Information, charging him with the transmission of wagering information and money laundering.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A suspected Central American human smuggler was arrested Wednesday for his involvement in smuggling Salvadoran children and MS-13 gang members. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents from the HSI Assistant Attaché Office in El Salvador assisted police officers from the Salvadoran National Civil Police, who made the arrest.
