News from January 2015
By DOT News Wire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: DOT Cautions Consumers on Super Bowl Air Travel Game Ticket Scams. Air travelers going to Super Bowl XLIX this year should be aware that not all tour packages include a ticket to the Feb. 1 game in Glendale, Ariz. Under U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) consumer protection rules, any operator ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Two Florida marine life dealers pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lurana Snow in Key West, Florida, for trafficking wildlife.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that James Ray King Jr., age 57, of Springdale, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison with three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Kier Hicks, a/k/a “Mouse," age 41, of Baltimore, today to 94 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, arising from a scheme to use personal identity information to open instant credit accounts at retail stores and buy high value merchandise. Chief Judge Blake also entered an order that Hicks pay restitution of $194,674.60.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was arrested today and charged with violating a defendant’s civil rights by using excessive force during an arrest that took place in Bayonne, New Jersey, as well as falsifying records in an attempt to conceal the alleged crime, Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced Clive Felix Ure (58) to 12 months in federal prison for falsifying the airworthiness of a propeller that he had sold to the owner of a private plane. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $67,772.14. Ure pleaded guilty on July 10, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. Sioux City brothers have been sentenced to federal prison after they were convicted by a federal jury in Sioux City on Aug. 29, 2014, following a two and one-half day jury trial. Jamal Dean, 23, of Sioux City, was convicted of conspiracy, felon in possession of a firearm, carjacking...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: West Palm Beach resident pled guilty to willful retention of classified national defense information pursuant to the Espionage Act, one count of computer intrusion pursuant to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and one count of conspiracy to commit naturalization fraud, while employed as a computer systems administrator at a U.S. Military installation in Honduras.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By State Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri woman pleaded guilty Friday to being part of a conspiracy to operate an Olathe-based business that sold at least $16 million worth of synthetic forms of marijuana and other street drugs, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The third edition of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report on long-term airport capacity needs concluded that the FAA and airport operators must rely on NextGen technologies and procedures as well as runway improvements to address future airport capacity constraints. The Future Airport Capacity Task (FACT3) report identified airports that are at risk for significant delays and congestion through 2020 and 2030.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Aided Suicide Bomb Attack On U.S. Base In Iraq.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Mitchell, a/k/a Max, 22, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to six counts of bank robbery, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on Jan. 20, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Jeannette, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years imprisonment, followed by 15 years supervised release, on his conviction of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who admitted committing a federal obscenity offense was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Memphis, Tenn., business owner was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a cargo theft scheme that included a theft in West Plains, Mo.
