News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: SOPHIA, W.Va. - David Alan Hunt, a 33 year-old Raleigh County man, was sentenced to today to serve four years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Irene C. Berger.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Topographic maps that display surface features like mountains, valleys and coast lines, have long helped people navigate great distances. Forensic science researchers are now looking to topographic maps of microscopic features, like ridges, bumps and roughness, to aid in solving crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 9, 2015, Demetrius Antwan Dalton, 35, of Atlanta, Ga., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 240 months in federal prison. Dalton was previously convicted of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with the intent to distribute, 280 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine base (“crack"). There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Many resident was sentenced to 188 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in Sabine Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Greene County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of damage of an energy facility, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: HELENA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana announces that the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation have been selected by the Department of Justice as a Pilot Project for implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Starting March 6...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Summer Camp for Grown-ups, Beginning Backpacking and Hikes to Rarely Seen Alpine Areas Are Among the Guided Outdoor Adventures Offered for Visitors to Explore Yosemite National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Defendant And His Co-Conspirators Used Fake Companies, Phony Identification Documents, And Hundreds Of Counterfeit Checks To Withdraw More Than Two Million Dollars In Stolen Funds From More Than A Dozen Banks.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, recently submitted comments to the Bureau of Management (BLM) on its proposal to prohibit mining activity on 685,000 acres within Interior Alaska’s 2.1 million-acre Fortymile mining district. BLM’s planned withdrawal is part of its draft “Eastern Interior Resource Management and Environmental Impact Statement."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio today, FBI agents arrested 53-year-old Armando Jesus Hernandez Leal of Shavano Park, TX, in connection with a multi-million dollar investment fraud scam announced Acting United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former Boston computer industry consultant was found guilty following a five-day jury trial on March 6, 2015, of assuming the identity of an infant who died in 1966 and using that identity to obtain a Social Security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jose Luis Zuniga-Hernandez, 47, aka Wicho or XW or Commandante Wicho, has been ordered to federal prison along with his brother Armando Arizmendi Hernandez, 37, aka Commandante Mando or XW2 for conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than 1,000 kilograms...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Eugenia A.P. Cowles, the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Albert Johnson, 55, of Burlington, Vermont was sentenced on March 6, 2015 by Chief United States District Court Judge Christina Reiss, to 50 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base in Vermont. Johnson was also sentenced to 5 years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public review and comment on the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Clara Barton House Rehabilitation Project. The EA evaluates feasible alternatives to install a new fire suppression system, construct a climate management system and rehabilitate a falling metal roof at the Clara Barton National Historic Site in Glen Echo, Md. Comments are being accepted through April 8, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Walter James Henson, 38, of Centralia, Illinois, pled guilty on March 9, 2015, to charges filed against him in an indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury in November 2014. Henson pled guilty to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Jeffrey Henry Williamson, 49, of Las Vegas, Nev., was sentenced today to 8 years in prison for making threats against a federal law enforcement officer, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dario Olivas, 24, of Veguita, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JERMAINE BUCHANAN, also known as “Hot Main," 20, of Shelton, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Jon Telford McBride of Kaysville, Utah, was sentenced Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City to 27 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay $174,684 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that JAMIE D. CROOM, age 31, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with the murder of Deputy United States Marshal Josie Wells while Deputy Wells was engaged in the performance of his official duties, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1111 and 1114.
