News published on Federal Newswire in February 2015

News from February 2015


News Release: Defendant Used Others’ Personal Identifying Information To Steal Income Tax Refunds.


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.


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.


Leader of Salem Hells Angels Pleads Guilty to Federal Crimes in Connection with Brutal Assault

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.


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 ...


Grand Jury Returns Superseding Indictment Against Westbank Gang Members

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...


Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Guilty Plea Of Former U.S. Soldier For Conspiracy To Murder A DEA Agent And A DEA Informant

News Release: Defendant Also Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Import Cocaine And To Possess A Firearm.


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.


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...


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.


Kline Statement on White House Education Report

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...


News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.


Fort Myers Man Convicted Of Drug Conspiracy

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.


Two Southern Illinois Residents Charged With Child Pornography Offenses

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...


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.


Former Nissan Employee Sentenced In Scheme To Defraud Nissan

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.


Settlement Reached In Murder-For-Hire Litigation

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.


News Release: A Palm Beach County resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra for unlawfully transporting endangered sea turtles.


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.


BLM Colorado State Office posts sale notice

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.