News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: A Centralia resident pleaded guilty on April 29, 2015, in United States District Court for burglarizing the Buchheit of Centralia farm and home supply store and stealing thirty nine guns, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Dakota R. Moss, 19, faces a maximum of up to 40 years in prison for his crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office will host a grand opening ceremony to welcome the public to their new building on May 7, 2015 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The new office is located at 1313 E. Hwy. 160, Monte Vista, CO.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced ROY CHRISTOPHER PERRY, 49, of Raleigh to 151 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A high-ranking leader of the Black Disciples street gang was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison after being convicted of narcotics distribution. The defendant, WALTER BLACKMAN, 52, of Gary, Indiana, pleaded guilty in August 2014 to distribution of illegal narcotics. Today’s sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Mark Stamps, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 168 months in federal prison on a child pornography conviction, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO-Ozark National Scenic Riverways announces that the Sinking Creek access, including the campground and gravel bar, will be temporarily closed to the public during the construction of a temporary bridge over Sinking Creek by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT).The Sinking Creek access will be reopened following the completion of the temporary bridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia Ferrick, Special Agent In Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and William Offord, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation announced that RYAN GEDDES, 43, of Litchfield, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to multiple conspiracies involving a series of real estate transactions intended to shield assets from creditors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal criminal indictment charging Marlin D. Haley, 22, of Charlotte, with two counts of destroying and delaying U.S. mail was returned by a federal grand jury on Thursday, April 23, 2015, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Haley was arrested this morning and had his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, and Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General for the State of Georgia, announced today they have reached a civil settlement with the Hospital Authority of Irwin County (ICH), Dr. Mahendra Amin, Dr. Ashfaq Saiyed, Dr. Romana Bairan...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Senate and House Agriculture Committee leadership today called for emergency assistance to be released to poultry and egg producers whose flocks suffered losses due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N2 infections.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Contact: Office of Communications (202)720-4623. Tegucigalpa, HONDURAS, April 29, 2015-Deputy Agriculture Secretary Krysta Harden and Honduras Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock Jacobo Paz today signed an agreement to support agricultural development and trade in Honduras. Through the Food for Progress...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Thanks to a generous “Ticket to Ride" grant from the National Park Foundation and Disney, students from the City of York (Pa.) School District will have an opportunity to visit the Eisenhower National Historic Site this spring. The grant awarded to the Eisenhower Site will pay expenses for fifth grade students to travel to President Eisenhower's farm and participate in the site's curriculum-based, character education program, "The Molding of a Leader.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - Jacob Alan Seiger, 24, of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced on April 28, 2015, for distribution of heroin. Seiger was sentenced to 156 month term of imprisonment, to be followed by a three year term of court supervision upon release from Federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced today the filing of an Information charging Alicia Keir, 24 of Demotte, Indiana, with involuntary manslaughter for the death of her newborn child by failing to summon medical attention.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Indictments Filed Pursuant to Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative and The HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that four men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to steal identity information and use the stolen information to create and cash more than $70,000 in counterfeit checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Nicholas William Soto, age 27, of Spokane, Washington was sentenced after having previously pleaded guilty on Jan. 13, 2015 to Production of Child Pornography. United States District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 55 year-old Roscoe, Texas, man appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy M. Koenig and pleaded guilty to a felony offense stemming from a fraudulent invoicing scheme he ran while working at Chevron Pipe Line Company, announced, John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two men have been ordered to federal prison following their roles in a large-scale drug-trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Guillermo Herrera, 55, and Hector Alberto Burton aka Hector Alberto Camacho, 41, were found guilty by a jury following a three-day...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor with practices in Wall Township and Howell Township, New Jersey, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
