News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Arthur Brock, age 32, of Perry, Georgia, was sentenced on April 22, 2015, to serve 100 months (eight years and four months) in federal prison for Distribution of Methamphetamine. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Court Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Jimmy Sanders Inc., Stuttgart, Ark., has paid $350 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A 26-year-old Cordova man was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison yesterday for filing false income tax returns that garnered over $161,000 in refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Christian Robert Michael Paradis, 34, of the State line area-at various times a resident of New Plymouth, Fruitland and Payette, Idaho, and Ontario, Oregon-was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, and felon in possession of a firearm, ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Today the Bureau of Land Management announced the release of draft alternatives for the future management of 2.5 million acres of BLM-administered lands in western Oregon to better achieve social, economic and ecological objectives. Five alternatives are detailed in the Draft Resource Management Plan...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Update: Statue of Liberty to Resume Normal Operations.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Ventura, CA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows the economic benefit of Channel Islands National Park and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to our local economy in supporting 706 jobs with a cumulative benefit to the local economy of over $68 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On April 23, 2015, Cory Lee Daugherty, age 30, of Earlham, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge James E. Gritzner. to 77 months in federal prison for possession of firearms in the Madison county courthouse, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Daugherty...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Howe, age 27, of Elmira, New York, was sentenced April 22 by U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik in Scranton, Pennsylvania, for a drug related offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: A 2010 Congressional candidate for Florida’s 25th Congressional District, along with the campaign manager for an opposing candidate from a different party, have been charged jointly with violating federal election laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant is One of Twenty-Nine Charged in February 2014 with Trafficking Methamphetamine in San Juan County.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of April 27. Members will take major steps toward advancing 21st Century Cures and building the Architecture of Abundance. Members will also discuss ways to make the FCC more transparent and will continue their review of opioid abuse. Finally, the committee will advance bills to protect consumers and businesses from higher electricity rates and patent trolls.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Emiliano Trevino, 25, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of one count of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Trevino pleaded guilty Jan, 29, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Randy Thomas, 45, of Miami Gardens, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison after having been convicted at trial of being a convicted felon who shot and injured a local police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Roydel Nicholson, 62, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 803,739 visitors to Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in 2014 spent over $45 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 766 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $64.8 million. These numbers are all increases over those reported in 2013 and 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kouame “Innocent" Tanoh, 53, of Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in operating a longstanding fraudulent scheme used stolen personal identifying information and claimed over $400,000 in false tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Senthil Prabakaran, 42, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to two months in prison for failure to file his 2010 federal income tax return. Prabakaran also was ordered to pay...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A 32-year-old Salvadoran man wanted in his home country on aggravated homicide charges was removed Friday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Antwyne Warren, a resident of St. Clair County, Illinois pled guilty in federal district court this morning to five felony charges including (1) conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting; (2) attempted robbery; (3) using or carrying firearms in furtherance of a drug...
