News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man who robbed a New York Community Bank in Newark and fled by hailing a cab was sentenced today to 24 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the selection of Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to be the committee’s chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Rodney Joel Neal (53, Montezuma, Georgia) with failing to register as sex offender after traveling from Georgia to Florida. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. Neal has been in custody since his arrest on related state charges on Oct. 10, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. Four individuals, including a man who grew marijuana in his Breckenridge, Colorado home and flew it to Eastern Iowa in his private airplane were each sentenced this week for their roles in a marijuana trafficking conspiracy. They are the latest defendants to be sentenced as a result...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of DMITRI SOUDAKOV, 41, for the illegal purchase and transport of smokeless tobacco. The defendant pleaded guilty on January 5, 2015, before Judge David S. Doty in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn., to one count of Shipment, Transport, Receipt, Possession, Sale, Distribution and Purchase of Contraband Smokeless Tobacco.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Alabaster, Alabama, man convicted of Felon in Possession of Firearm, Impersonating a Federal Officer, Interstate Stalking, and Tampering with a Witness, was sentenced on January 6, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. In October of 2014, Thetford was found guilty by a federal jury, following a 5-day trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement today after the Senate Republican Conference ratified his selection to serve as Chairman on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee for the 114th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Vasile Leu, 34, of Chisinau, Moldova, who was convicted of using a fraudulent Czech Republic passport to open bank accounts, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles P. Siragusa. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution of $147,850 to victims of a related fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Thank you also for including the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the UNM Health Sciences Center in the Bernalillo County Opioid Accountability Initiative, and for giving Chancellor Paul Roth and me the opportunity to participate in today’s Summit for the purpose of discussing how our organizations can contribute to and build on the good work that is already being done here in Bernalillo County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flannagan sentenced ANTONIO O’DARIAN REED, 20,of Oxford, North Carolina, to 196 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for attempt to kill with intent to retaliate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Isaiah Dean Trujillo, 24, a member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., was sentenced this morning to eight years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on two counts of involuntary manslaughter. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Chief Kendell Vicenti of the Jicarilla Apache Tribal Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park is looking for volunteers to assist pulling buffelgrass within the Rincon Mountain District (east) this Saturday, January 10. Interested volunteers should meet at the park's Rincon Mountain Visitor Center at 8:00 am. Please park in the Administration parking lot (first...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Raymond Edmonds, 43, of Beckley, West Virginia, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Sent the Girl and from Las Vegas to Virginia to be Prostituted.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in a scheme to produce and sell fake government documents, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: By Phil Taylor- Energy & Environment News
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Raheem T. Creque, 37, of St Thomas, to 25 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Gomez also sentenced Creque to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release for escape from custody. Both sentences will run concurrently.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a six count indictment charging Jason M. Smith, 34, of Tonawanda, NY, with production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Alabaster, Alabama, man convicted of Felon in Possession of Firearm, Impersonating a Federal Officer, Interstate Stalking, and Tampering with a Witness, was sentenced on January 6, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. In October of 2014, Thetford was found guilty by a federal jury, following a 5-day trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas E. Bishop, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), and Mark Peters, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI")...
