News from September 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today a Maryville, Mo., woman has been charged in federal court in a murder-for-hire scheme in which she negotiated with an undercover federal agent and, without realizing it, her intended victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - Juan Ramon Yuen-Rodriguez, 29, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced on Sept. 15, 2014, after having previously pleaded guilty on May 24, 2014, to distribution of methamphetamine. Yuen-Rodriquez was sentenced to 210 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release and a $500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell sentenced Antone T. Adams (25, Daytona Beach) yesterday to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Adams was indicted on October 9, 2013. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 28, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Six sworn deputies who were working in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department each were sentenced today to federal prison terms for.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Bluefield, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Michael Devon Harmon, 36, of Princeton, was sentenced today in federal court in Bluefield to 9 years in federal prison for distribution of hydromorphone. Harmon pled guilty in May of 2014, admitting that on July 24, 2013, he...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Sulaiman Abu Ghayth Appeared With Usama Bin Laden And Ayman Al-Zawahiri Immediately After Sept. 11, 2001, Threatening Additional Attacks Against The United States.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: The public is invited to join park rangers and volunteers for special programs to celebrate SwampFest at Congaree National Park on October 4. SwampFest is a local heritage tourism event, which will take place October 3-4 in Lower Richland County. All park programs are free and begin at the Visitor Center.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Ian A. Leach, 26, of Louisville, Ohio, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: CEO Fabricated Existence Of Chief Financial Officer And Fraudulently Issued And Sold Company Stock.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: U.S. MARSHALS CELEBRATE 225 YEARS OF SERVICE.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that an Indictment has been handed down by a federal grand jury charging Joseph L. Capano, age 73, of Middletown, Delaware, with three counts of making false statements to federal authorities (18...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey Transit employee admitted today to obtaining money from New Jersey Transit vendors to use his official authority and influence to help them get work with New Jersey Transit, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Riveting Characters to Showcase Historic. Passageway's Abundant Stories. Where can you meet intrepid pioneer Rebecca Boone, the murderous Harpe brothers, and famed conservationist Gifford Pinchot, and still stay right in beautiful Cumberland Gap? During the annual Heritage Walk of course!. For the fourth...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said the thoughts and prayers of the U.S. Attorney's Office are with UPS employees and the families of those who died today in a shooting at the company's customer service center and warehouse in Inglenook.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Emanuel Medina, 24, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 46 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing stolen firearms.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Thony Yang, 24, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced on Sept. 22, 2014, for conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Yang was sentenced to 120 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised of release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that on Sept. 19, 2014, Christopher A. Seifer (age: 43) of Westfield, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $84,717.60 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Labor. Seifer was also ordered to pay a $500 special assessment.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell sentenced Antone T. Adams (25, Daytona Beach) yesterday to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Adams was indicted on October 9, 2013. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 28, 2014.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Jose Emmanuel Torres, 37, of Cooper City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore to 41 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a West Pittston man was sentenced yesterday in Scranton by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 135 months in federal prison for his role in a drug distribution conspiracy.