News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm today sentenced Richard George Martin, 35, of Normal, Ill., to serve the remainder of his life in prison with no possibility for parole to be served concurrently with his sentence in a McLean county drug case. Martin was also ordered to forfeit more than $120,000 in seized assets. Following today’s court hearing, Martin was remanded to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: The Denali Park Road will be closed to vehicle traffic on Friday, September 26 at.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- After a two-day trial in the District Court in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, a federal jury today found Rosemarie Peltier, a former postal clerk, guilty of embezzling thousands of dollars from the United States Postal Service (USPS), announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and Special Agent in Charge Ricardo Medina of the Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Robert Todd Britt, 27, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown to 15 years in federal prison following his plea of guilty to being an Armed Career Criminal in possession of a firearm. Britt pled guilty to the charge on June 11, 2014, and has been in custody since the time of his arrest on Dec. 26, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Henderson, Nev. man was sentenced today to two years in prison for aiming a laser pointer at a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) helicopter on six occasions earlier this year, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former assistant vice president at a Fort Lee, New Jersey bank surrendered to the FBI today for her alleged involvement in a scheme to embezzle over $1 million from her employer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton today charged an inmate at a state prison with mailing communications threatening to injure and kill a state court judge in Monroe County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - An investigation by federal, state and local law enforcement in Central Ohio has led to the arrest of 13 people on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- Two members of the Ironworkers Local 401, James Walsh and Greg Sullivan, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court before the Honorable Michael Baylson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley and Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator have joined together to offer a new tool to law enforcement to teach firearm safety to children.
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding airstrikes in Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Cheryl Gray, 44, of Hilltop, West Virginia was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to one year and one day in federal prison for mail fraud involving concealed weapons permits. Gray is a former employee of the Fayette...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Bettina Wilson, 34, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of acquiring Oxycodone through fraud, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to one year probation and ordered to pay restitution totaling $7,573.65.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: House Located at 20 Kassing Drive, Scene of Drug Overdose Deaths, Will Be Demolished.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Marvel Alegria, age 24, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, today to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit armed robbery in connection with four robberies of Chipotle restaurants. Judge Bennett also ordered Alegria to pay restitution of $24,900.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that MICHAEL SCOTT CALHOUN, age 49, and TOMMY WAYNE DAVIS, age 47, both of Yantis, Texas, were sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud/Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Gregory Michael McCarty (45, Green Cove Springs) has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A former manager at an automobile parts manufacturer in Vance pleaded guilty today to mail fraud in connection to parts he stole from the company and sold for personal profit, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: From the White House Council on Environmental Quality blog.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to participate in a Sept. 27 event near Rangely to recognize National Public Lands Day.
