News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Miller, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for shooting at an airplane.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RASHAD LEWIS, age 37, a resident of New Orleans, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Charlie Lewis Davis of Mobile was sentenced, following an October 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Davis was previously convicted in Baldwin County of Manslaughter and Possession of Marijuana, First Degree in 2005. By virtue of these convictions, Davis is prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Scott L. Austin, 52, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced today by visiting Senior District Judge Justin L. Quackenbush to 12 months and one day in prison followed by three years of supervised release for to attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 28, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that David...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A former vice-president of the State Bank of Herscher, David Rabideau, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for receiving a $75,000 kickback for procuring a real estate loan and for two counts of filing false tax returns. U.S. Senior District Judge Harold A. Baker ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Jason Amidon, 27, of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, was arraigned yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington, and pleaded not guilty to charges that he knowingly offered as payment for 53 Vermont cows a counterfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Uniformed Officer Made False Entries at Border Crossing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Nine Individuals Indicted for the Murder of an Officer and Employee of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Albert Dickson, age 61, of Red Bank, New Jersey, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Charleston, to Making a False Statement Under the Clean Water Act, a violation of 33 U.S.C. § 1319(c)(4). United States District Judge Patrick Michael Duffy of Charleston accepted the guilty plea and will sentence Dickson at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSEPH F. GAGLIANO, age 55, and DOMINICK GULLO, age 72, both from Metairie, pled guilty today to federal firearm charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: After a full day of search efforts yesterday, Thursday, Jan. 29, for Jay Starr Jr., rangers were travelling east bound on Trail Ridge Road, where they had searched extensively, when they saw Starr lying on a rock along the shoulder of the road. Starr was found in poor condition and was initially uncooperative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa and Iowa’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE) joined forces at the Flying J Travel Plaza and Road Ranger Truck Stop in Evansdale, Iowa, over the lunch hour on Jan. 30, 2015, to bring awareness to the multi-million dollar...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today in federal court for bank robbery. PEDRO J. CORDERO, 52, of Rockford, Ill., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 62 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for the robbery of BMO Harris Bank, N.A., 2510 S. Alpine Rd., Rockford, Ill., on July 12, 2014. Cordero was also ordered to pay restitution to the bank.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Lookout Mountain, TN: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is pleased to announce the waiver of entrance fees to Point Park, atop Lookout Mountain, from Saturday, February 14 through Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Experience the majestic views of Chattanooga's surrounding landscape from our nation's first national military park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Cordell Jones to ten years and one month in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $1,469,435, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Jones pleaded guilty on November 5, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Boise - Terry Dorton Anderson, 49, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today at the federal courthouse in Boise, Idaho on two felony counts of illegally damaging public land by dumping hundreds of old tires, United States Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief United States District Judge B. Lynn Winmill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY G. GRIFFIN, 55, of Ridgefield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown, U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Anderson, Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison, and Louisiana State Probation and Parole District Administrator Frank Palestina announce the results of Operation “Wild Wild East."
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., made the following statement today in response to the White House disclosing details about the Precision Medicine Initiative, a $215 million proposal that would accelerate research on biomedical therapies and cures tailored to individuals and provide new tools to physicians to treat disease...
