News from February 2015
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Idaho announced today that its fire management program is seeking to hire veterans to join the BLM Idaho firefighting team. Veterans can apply for various firefighting positions, including Firefighter Type I, Engineering Equipment Operator (dozer), Ramp Manager...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: (PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New England Field Division and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced that Neftali Reyes, a/k/a Popi, 32, of Providence, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Saleh H. Fakhoury, age 49, formerly of Lutherville, Maryland, today to four years in prison, followed by nine months of home detention as part of three years of supervised release, for his participation in a scheme to destroy his Maryland home by fire to collect $3 million in insurance proceeds. Judge Bennett also ordered Fakhoury to pay restitution of more than $800,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing; Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; David Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI; David Butler, Prosecuting Attorney for the 13th Judicial District of Arkansas; and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Jasper Lee Shields (59, Jacksonville) to 57 months in federal prison for aiding and abetting the attempted passing of counterfeit checks and for violating his supervised release. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an indictment was returned by a grand jury charging a New York man with being a felon in possession of a firearm/ammunition and possession of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Jan. 30, 2015, James Nastri, 34, of Deep River, Connecticut, was sentenced to 210 months in prison, having been convicted of conspiracy to distribute at least 100 grams of heroin. On June 2, 2014, following a five-day...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - HECTOR MORALES, 36, of the Bronx, was sentenced today by the Honorable Gary L. Sharpe to thirty years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt. Additionally, the judge imposed a term of twenty years of supervised release upon release from incarceration. MORALES has a prior drug felony conviction and, therefore, was subject to increased penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Gerrell Houston to 38 months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. Houston pleaded guilty in September 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration has granted eight more regulatory exemptions for commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations, bringing the total number of exemption grants to 24.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Commerce Department released the latest estimate for real gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of 2014. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement upon the report’s release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Christopher Jermaine Taylor, 29, of Detroit, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Mexican national pleaded guilty Monday to possessing cocaine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Kansas City, Kan., siblings have pleaded guilty in federal court to the armed robbery of an Excelsior Springs, Mo., bank, which was followed by a high-speed chase until the robbers’ vehicle crashed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Derrick Wayne Goodwin, 25, of Detroit, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the possession of heroin with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Army National Guard official pleaded guilty today for accepting a $30,000 bribe in exchange for steering a $3.6 million contract to a retired sergeant major of the Minnesota Army National Guard and his consulting company. Today’s guilty plea is the eighth in connection with an investigation into corruption within the National Guard Bureau related to the awarding of millions of dollars of Army National Guard marketing, retention and recruitment contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kearny County man was indicted Tuesday on federal child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Summerhill, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of theft of mail by a postal employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement today regarding his meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan. The meeting followed news reports of the death of a Jordanian pilot, First Lieutenant Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was killed after being held hostage by the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Yesterday, Naquan Reyes pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to murdering Nicole Thompson to prevent her from communicating with federal law enforcement officials who were investigating a bank fraud conspiracy. According to court filings and facts presented during the plea proceeding...
