News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that two men were found guilty by a federal jury, following a nearly three week trial at the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Middle District of Pennsylvania. Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 30-year-old Reading, Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 66 months in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Craig Goettsch, 53, of Rogers, Arkansas was sentenced today to 60 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for Possession of Child Pornography. The sentencing took place before the Honorable Timothy L. Brooks in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: Statement of Ranking Member Barbara Boxer
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A man who used a knife to kill another man on the Meskwaki Nation Settlement pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Jonathan Youngbear, 21, from the Meskwaki Nation Settlement, Iowa, was convicted of one count of second degree murder in “Indian Country.". In a plea...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHARLES E. “CHUCK" MIZELL, JR., age 44, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy commit mail fraud in a scheme to defraud the Louisiana Workforce Commission of unemployment benefits, and five counts of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced the guilty pleas of MICHAEL A. METZKER and MICHAEL W. METZKER. The two pled guilty to Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute And Distribute Five Hundred (500) Grams Or More Of Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 8411(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: EFFINGHAM, Ill. - Naeem Mahmood Kohli60, of Effingham, Illinois, was convicted of seven counts of illegal dispensation of a Schedule II Controlled Substance following a 17-day jury trial held in federal district court, in the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Gloria Evangeline Suazo, age 32, of Pueblo, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to serve 60 months (5 years) in federal prison for aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, namely heroin, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Georgia man was sentenced in federal court today for a wire fraud scheme in which he used the identity information of deceased persons to obtain more than $2.3 million in tax refunds from several states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 46-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner is pleased to announce the 2014 winner of the Eastern District of California Law Enforcement Award for the Fresno Division’s Outstanding Law Enforcement Agency. This award is one of four awards presented annually to a law enforcement agency and...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican leaders today sent a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, seeking information about the administration’s contingency planning for the upcoming Supreme Court decision in the case of King v. Burwell. “Given HHS’s responsibilities, we believe it is prudent that the Department plan for the full range of potential outcomes and consequences of the Court’s decision."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alvin Charley, 36, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Pinedale, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a voluntary manslaughter charge. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Charley will be sentenced to 120 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., today announced the Democratic Ranking Members and Subcommittee membership for the House Agriculture Committee’s six Subcommittees. Peterson will serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican leaders today sent a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, seeking information about the administration’s contingency planning for the upcoming Supreme Court decision in the case of King v. Burwell. “Given HHS’s responsibilities, we believe it is prudent that the Department plan for the full range of potential outcomes and consequences of the Court’s decision."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 28, 2015, Christopher Ryan Jenkins, 28, of Rockwood, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison, by the Honorable Pamela Reeves, U.S. District Judge, for conspiracy to manufacture 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (meth) and possession of precursors used to manufacture meth. Upon his release from prison, he will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: Real Estate Consultant also Pleads Guilty to Charges arising out of Scheme to Embezzle Approximately $3,575,000.00 from Indian Pueblo Federal Development Corporation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Romeo Serna Sr., 52, has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions on multiple conspiracies related to the distribution of narcotics within 1,000 feet of school, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Serna pleaded guilty June 17, 2013, to multiple conspiracies to possess...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today announced the new Subcommittee assignments for the 114th Congress.
