News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Used Others’ Personal Identifying Information To Steal Income Tax Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: An Akron physician was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally prescribing hundreds of thousands of doses of painkillers and other pills to customers for no legitimate medical purpose, even after at least eight customers died from overdose-related deaths, law enforcement officials said.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Land Management in Colorado will offer 42 parcels totaling 10,980 acres within the Royal Gorge Field Office and 44 United States Forest Service parcels totaling 25,215 acres within the Pawnee National Grassland. The quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale is scheduled for 9 a.m., May 14, 2015, at the Colorado State Office in Lakewood.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The leader of the Salem Chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to criminal charges in connection with the assault and maiming of a former member of the Red Devils Motorcycle Club.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway has sentenced two brothers, Nelson Cartagena (41, Rockledge) and Dairo Cartagena (38, Rockledge), for their roles in a conspiracy to smuggle firearms to Colombia, and for unlawfully dealing in firearms. Nelson Cartagena was sentenced to 15 years ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the return of a second superseding Indictment charging members of a violent Westbank gang associated with the Harvey Hustlers with violating federal drug and firearm laws, including multiple murders and shootings. A federal grand jury returned the second superseding...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Also Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Import Cocaine And To Possess A Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ANTONIO WHITESIDE, St. Louis County, Missouri, was indicted in connection with the attempted arson of the Ferguson Supermarket, Inc. on Nov. 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - ALLEN PETERS, 43, of Malone, was sentenced yesterday to fourteen years in federal prison by United States District Court Judge Glenn T. Suddaby for his conviction of conspiracy to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Takini, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact with a Child was sentenced on Feb. 11, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement in response to the White House education report released earlier today...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Titus Lamar Bellot (28, Fort Myers) guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute the controlled substance methylone. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 18, 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that two southern Illinois residents were charged and appeared in Court today on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms, following a high-speed car chase that ended with a collision that killed an employee of the Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Kenneth Carter, 45, of Corona, Calif., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes, Jr., to serve 60 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Nissan North America by filing false Lemon Law claims on behalf of individuals who owned Nissan vehicles, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Carter was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $565,000 to Nissan North America.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - United States Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a stipulation and settlement agreement had been entered between with Randall Delbert Knight and approved by the Honorable William M. Skretny, Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: A Palm Beach County resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra for unlawfully transporting endangered sea turtles.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eduardo Lerma, Jr., 32, of Carlsbad, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management in Colorado will offer 42 parcels totaling 10,980 acres within the Royal Gorge Field Office and 44 United States Forest Service parcels totaling 25,215 acres within the Pawnee National Grassland. The quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale is scheduled for 9 a.m., May 14, 2015, at the Colorado State Office in Lakewood.