News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the conviction of BENJAMIN ONE DEER HART, 28, a member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, for stabbing one of his cousins and attempting to stab another cousin on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. On April 7, 2015, following a two-day trial...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina today seeking the arrest and extradition of a former colonel in the Salvadoran army to face charges in Spain related to the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Utuva Alaelua was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to 58 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury in Springfield today returned an indictment charging Edward C. Brown, 35, of the 1200 block of Sycamore Street, Rantoul, Ill., with distribution and possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Join the 11th Street Bridge Park and the National Park Service Sunday on April 12th from noon to 4 p.m. for the first ever Anacostia River Festival, the closing event of the 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival. The festival will take place in Anacostia Park at the corner of Good Hope Road SE and Anacostia Drive SE. For updates and information about the festival text “RIVERFEST" to 888777, standard message rates may apply.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: On April 8, 2015, Jimmy L. Richeson, Sr., 52, of Trenton, Illinois, was sentenced for his involvement in a methamphetamine offense, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - ― United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today 14 defendants have been arrested on various gun and drug-related charges after federal agents along with state and local officers served warrants in Marion, Vigo and Morgan counties early this morning. Most defendants face charges related to the distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: An Indictment Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence. A Defendant Is Presumed Innocent Unless Convicted Through Due Process.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: On April 8, 2015, Martell L. Brown-Wright, a/k/a "Low Key," 29, of Murphysboro, pled guilty to a four-count indictment charging distribution of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a public housing facility; possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a public housing facility;...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nearly 1,000 gang members and associates from 239 different gangs were arrested in 282 cities across the U.S. during Project Wildfire, a six-week operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The operation targeted transnational criminal gangs and others associated with transnational criminal activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Following a seven-day trial before U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn, a federal jury has convicted David Lyman Spalding of Colleyville, Texas, on all counts of a superseding indictment charging various offenses related to a wind farm investment scam he ran, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: Frederick Buettner, 42, of St. Louis, MO, was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 24 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, on one count of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. His sentence was ordered to run consecutively, that is, in addition to his sentence for violating the terms and conditions of mandatory supervised release on his Illinois sex offense.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: On April 8, 2015 at 3:42p.m., a report of an apparent suicide from the Natchez Trace Parkway Double Arch Bridge was received by the Williamson County Sheriff Office. Twenty-five year-old Sean N. Brooks, of Nashville, TN was found below the bridge along TN Highway 96 outside of Franklin, Tennessee. Brooks' vehicle was located atop the bridge near milepost 438 on the Parkway. The Natchez Trace Parkway Park Ranger Office is investigating the incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: A two-count indictment was filed charging a California man with crimes related to methamphetamine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 24-year-old Tobyhanna Township man pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph F. Saporito, Jr. in Wilkes-Barre, to participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine in Monroe and Wayne Counties between 2011 and 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted on bank fraud charges related to the fraudulent purchase of a Richfield home for nearly $1.2 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - Orlando, Florida, based Air Ideal Inc. and its majority owner, Kim Amkraut, have agreed to pay the United States $250,000 to resolve allegations that they made false statements to the Small Business Administration (SBA) to obtain certification as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) company, the Justice Department announced today. Under the settlement, defendants must also pay five percent of Air Ideal’s gross revenues over the next five years.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
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By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015
News Release: NEWNAN, Ga. - Emmett Winston Smith, a/k/a Everett Smith, a former facilities assistant and Sunday school teacher at a church in Newnan, Georgia, has been arraigned on federal charges of distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography. Smith was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 24, 2015.
