News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice filed today a civil forfeiture complaint seeking the forfeiture of nine properties worth approximately $1,528,000 that were allegedly purchased with funds traceable to a $2 million bribe paid by a Honduran information-technology company to the former Executive Director of the Honduran Institute of Social Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Former insurance agent conspired to steal over $160,000 in commissions based on fraudulent annuity sales to elderly clients.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Washington - The Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday issued these statements responding to the president’s proposed cybersecurity information sharing bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore - On Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Marco Antonio Gutierrez, 36, of Grants Pass, Oregon, to 14 years in federal prison, and his brother Samuel De La Cruz Gutierrez, 43, to 10 years in federal prison, after they pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine and heroin with intent to distribute. Both men will be on five years of supervised release after they complete their prison terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - On Tuesday, January 13th, 2015, DEA Omaha and their state and local counterparts arrested 12 individuals and seized approximately $8,800 in United States currency as the culmination of an 18-month investigation. Throughout the course of the investigation 12.3 pounds of methamphetamine and approximately $35,000 were seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - District Court Judge Raymond Finch, on Dec. 22, 2014, sentenced Golden Grove Prisoner Avery Monsanto, age 51, to four months in prison for Possession of Prison Contraband, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent-in-Charge...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to announce that the entrance fee to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be waived on Monday, January 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Scheme Targeted U.S. Securities Markets and Involved Complex Web of Brokerage Accounts, Off-Shore Entities and High-Speed Trading by Stock Traders in China and Korea.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: HAGERSTOWN, MD. -The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) is a great place to enjoy winter activities, but please place safety first. The park cautions visitors regarding ice skating. Ice conditions at the C&O Canal are not monitored by park staff. Ice skating and sledding are...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: St. George, Utah-Fire managers for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arizona Strip District are planning to burn piles resulting from road thinning work. The prescribed burn is located 65 miles south of St. George, Utah near Mt. Trumbull on the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument. The burns will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 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 who was shot by police officers was charged in federal court today with bank robbery and carjacking.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Bureau of Reclamation is providing a funding opportunity for communities in the West which may be seeking new sources of water supplies using water recycling and reuse technologies. Funding made available will assist communities in determining whether water recycling and reuse...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Laiton Blake Witkowski, age 42, of Stockton, Maryland, today to 16 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for producing and possessing child pornography. Judge Hollander also ordered that upon his release from prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr., sentenced Craig Okeido Anderson, a/k/a “Snap," “Sir Chill," King Hundredgrand," and “Yung Royalty," age 25, of Catonsville, Maryland, today to seven years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park will be joining national park units across the country in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day with fee-free entry into the park on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An attorney specializing in real estate closings and a co-conspirator were charged today with depositing almost $1 million in fraudulently obtained IRS refund checks into several different bank accounts, including the attorney's trust account, in an effort to launder the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KWANZA WELLS, age 34, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today for conspiring to defraud the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: James Needham possessed more than 1,300 images of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Dannie Carl Rayford, Jr. (32) to 15 years in federal prison, and his brother, Jermain Lavan Harrison (30), to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for possessing firearms and ammunition. Both men were previously convicted of multiple felony offenses, including armed burglaries and drug violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Nicodemus Darnell Jefferson (40, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender after traveling to Florida from Maryland. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Jefferson has been in custody since his arrest on Sept. 30, 2014.
