News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for one count of obstruction of mail.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Pipestone, MN: SuperintendentGlen H. Livermont announced that, in honor of Martin Luther King Holiday, thePipestone National Monument and other National Park Service (NPS) sites, aroundthe country, will be offering fee-free entry into the parks on Jan. 19,2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Demarco Myles, 21, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to numerous charges, including assault with intent to kill while armed, attempted first-degree sexual abuse while armed, and mayhem while armed, stemming from an attack in 2012 in which he forced his way into a woman’s apartment, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BRADLEY FERGUSON, owner of Fenton-based Paymaster Business Solutions, Inc., was sentenced to 54 months in prison on mail fraud and money laundering charges involving his failure to remit federal, state and local taxes to the proper taxing authorities that had been deducted from victim...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Kendrick Watkins and Charles Jackson have been sentenced to 18 years, 4 months, and 19 years in federal prison for their respective roles in the robbery and near-fatal shooting of a postal truck driver on Dec. 20, 2013, during a routine pick-up at the Conley, Ga. post office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Walsh Allegedly Represented Falsely That He Worked Regular And Overtime Hours For The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office When He Was Playing Golf, Visiting Casinos, Or Performing Work On Behalf Of The Suffolk County Conservative Party.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Ronald Bergrin, 56, of New York, New York, with cyberstalking, threatening in retaliation, and threatening in an interstate communication, an FBI agent from on or about December 2012 through on or about Dec. 18, 2014, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - At the request of the Office of the Attorney General of El Salvador, the International Response Team (IRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will arrive in El Salvador today to provide support in the investigation of the cause and origin of the Las Cascadas Mall fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Kerwin Dale Sande, age 60, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced earlier this week by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to serve 15 months in federal prison for Conspiring to Own and Operate an Illegal Gambling Business and money laundering, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Federal Bureau of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Jan. 5, 2015, almost 20 months following a large drug and violent crime sweep on and near the Yavapai-Apache Indian Reservation, the last of 22 defendants was sentenced in federal district court. Raul Valdez Hernandez, 55, of Seligman, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 10 years imprisonment for distributing methamphetamine. A list of related court numbers appear below.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Terrell Montaie, 31, of Detroit, pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin, in a hearing before United States District Court Judge Thomas Johnston in Charleston.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A 25-year-old employee of Miller's Plumbing and Mechanical Inc. died after being struck and crushed by a material/personnel elevator carriage not enclosed on all four sides. The employee was working on a six-story residential project at Florida State University.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Eddie Gallardo, 31, of Las Cruces, N.M., entered a guilty plea yesterday afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking charges. The guilty plea was entered pursuant to a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Over the past six years hard-working, middle-class families have been squeezed by the President’s failed economic policies. Bigger government, higher taxes, and more spending has saddled the American people with record high debt and left them with fewer jobs and smaller paychecks.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) will provide an update on the project status for the West Pond Environmental Assessment on Jan. 22 at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Sixteen Individuals Charged in Multiple Indictments.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and John Hoeven, R-N.D., today encouraged their Senate colleagues to support newly-reintroduced legislation to approve the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former resident of Cape Coral, Florida, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo for conspiring with a Scranton man to commit a murder-for-hire and committing two related firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Arizona. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. TUCSON, Ariz. - On Jan. 5, 2015, U.S. District Court Judge James A. Soto sentenced Howard Dennis Barnes, age 72, to 72 months in federal prison. Barnes had previously pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ELIAZAR GUSTAVO GARCIA-GARCIA, age 30, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
