News from September 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that RICHARD PAUL GEURIN, 48, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Bank Theft, Embezzlement and Misapplication, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 656.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announces that Daniel Norman Howard, Jr. was sentenced on Sept. 22, 2014 to twenty-seven months confinement by United States District Court Judge Charles R. Butler. Howard plead guilty to being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Howard’s prior felony conviction...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Richard James Peone, age 21, of Wellpinit, Washington, was sentenced after having previously pleaded guilty in May, 2014 to one count of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon. Senior United States District...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging Eliazar Pineda-Castellano, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, with reentry after deportation and illegal alien in possession of firearm, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Angela Sloan, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today to two years of probation for her child abuse conviction. Sloan has been in a half-way house for the past three and a half months and will be spend up to an additional six months in the half-way house as a condition of her probation.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Dublin, GA: Meagan Deaton, 23, from Douglas, Georgia, pled guilty and was sentenced earlier this week in federal court in Dublin, Georgia, for her role in attempting to smuggle a cell phone into a federal prison facility for an inmate.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that Horance Antonio Taylor, a/k/a “Bloody Horace," (24) of Columbia was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for dealing drugs and using firearms in connection with his drug dealing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 22, 2014, Dennis Keith Gibbons Jr., 37, of Elizabethton, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 210 months in federal prison for his leadership role in an oxycodone conspiracy centered in and around the Carter County, Tennessee area.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Nonprofit Organization Acknowledges That It Should Have Known.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Jeff Bradybaugh, a 32-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), has been named superintendent of Zion National Park in Utah, according to Intermountain Regional Director Sue Masica. This marks the return to Zion National Park for Bradybaugh, having previously served there as the chief of resource management and research. Bradybaugh will begin his new assignment on Oct. 20, 2014.

By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released reports on black market oil sales by the Islamic State (ISIS) and on the controversy surrounding the Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) oil exports. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) prepared the report on Kurdish oil exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - German Dario Brand Piedrahita, 48, of Medellin, Colombia, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine for the purpose of importation into the United States. Today, Sonia Cruz Quiceno, 48, of Calarca, Colombia, was sentenced to 168 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for her involvement in the same conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine for the purpose of importation into the United States.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park staff returned the granite Battery F, 5th US Artillery monument to its original location, within the footprint of the old Cyclorama Center in Ziegler's Grove today, September 24. The monument was moved from its original location in the early 1960s to make way for the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is initiating a 45-day public comment period on a proposal to sell 5 acres of public land to the State of Nevada Housing Division for affordable housing purposes. The 5-acre parcel is located in the southern part of the Las Vegas Valley near the intersection of Agate Avenue and Kimo Street within the Las Vegas Boulevard and Interstate 15 corridor south of Blue Diamond Road.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Law firm employee stole over $186,000 from her employer.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Andrew Anderson, of Pittsburgh was sentenced to 120 months in prison for conspiring to distribute at least one kilogram of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Chicago area man was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison for producing child pornography involving two 16-year-old girls he met in private Internet chat rooms in 2012 and induced to take sexually explicit photos of themselves and send them to him. The defendant, MARK BARRETO, 36...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Television personality Michael “The Situation" Sorrentino and his brother Marc Sorrentino are expected to appear in federal court this afternoon to face an indictment alleging they did not properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income Michael Sorrentino received from promotional activities, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A former acting Pembroke Township Supervisor, Leon Eddie Mondy, pled guilty today to defrauding township accounts of more than $60,000 from August 2012 to May 2013. Mondy entered his open plea of guilty to one count of wire fraud in an appearance this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge David G. Bernthal. Sentencing has been scheduled for Jan. 23, 2015, in Peoria, before Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid.