News from February 2015
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We are writing to express our concern over the future of U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. As you know, Cuban President Raul Castro recently told the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that it would not be possible for Cuba to normalize relations with the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Jamar Alonzo Quarles, 34, was sentenced today to seventeen years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker ordered Quarles to pay $2,500 in fines, and Judge Jonker imposed a five -year term of supervised release that will commence once Quarles is released from imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: At a ceremony earlier this week in Washington, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder awarded the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor to several individuals, including fallen Senior Special Agent John Francis Capano, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and former Chief John Curly, Bellmore Fire Department, who exhibited exceptional courage in saving and protecting others and whose heroic actions were above and beyond the call of duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Traci Lynne Howes, 41, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced on February 9, 2015, by Chief United States District Court Judge Kevin H. Sharpe, to serve 18 months in prison for filing a false tax return, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold its first hearing of the 114th Congress on the Agricultural Act of 2014 implementation after one year and Farm Credit Administration nominations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that three inmates were sentenced Thursday in two separate cases for severe beatings of other inmates. United States District Judge Patricia Minaldi presided over the hearings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: In Austin last night, a jury convicted 44-year-old Bertram, TX, resident Jimmy Don Hardin of federal firearms and drug trafficking charges announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - William Butler Myers, 43, has been ordered to federal prison for 236 months for attempted production of child pornography involving a 14-year-old female, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Myers, of Meadows Place, entered a plea of guilty Nov. 21, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Vandals damage historic WPA structures at Timpanogos Cave.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - A Des Moines area attorney and real estate agent were both convicted of bank fraud after an eight-day jury trial, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Attorney Jason Springer was convicted of seven counts of bank fraud, and real estate agent Rick Makohoniuk was convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JAMES TAGLIAFERRI, formerly the president of TAG Virgin Islands (“TAG"), was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to six years in prison in connection with a multi-year multimillion-dollar fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Tyler Amon, Special Agent in Charge of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, and Commissioner Robert Klee of the Connecticut...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: (FAIR HAVEN, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Ras Foster, 25, of Brooklyn, New York has been sentenced on his conviction for distributing...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ-On Wednesday February 25th, at noon, Lauren Kingston, will present a lecture titled "Sister Parks, Casa Grande Ruins and Paquimé". The talk highlights the similarities and differences of these two significant historic areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and IRS-Criminal Investigations, New York Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Shantelle P. Kitchen announced that Elaine Monique Zavala-Charres, 34, of Phoenix Arizona pled guilty today in federal court in Utica, New York to mail fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ricky Martin Huerta, 20, resident of Eureka, pleaded guilty today to manufacturing marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
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: WASHINGTON - Anthony Hines, 21, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 11 years and two months in prison for a series of crimes, including five burglaries that he carried out while he was awaiting trial in another case, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Yesterday, a superseding indictment was unsealed charging the defendant, Oscar Wellman Espinoza-Merino, along with a previously-charged co-defendant, Byron Lopez, with conspiracy to commit murder in-aid-of racketeering, murder in-aid-of racketeering, obstruction-of-justice murder, and firearms offenses.1 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Feb. 12, 2015, Ronald Wayne Shenk, a 48 year-old resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine followed by a consecutive period of 60 months in prison...
