News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On March 5, 2015, Gavin Fraser, 27, of Bend, Oregon, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael McShane to 72 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, Fraser will be on federal supervised release for four years.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: FRITCH, TX -Fire managers plan to continue prescribed burns at Lake Meredith National Recreation Area beginning the week of March 8, 2015. Multiple prescribed burns are planned totaling approximately 2,850 acres. Prescribed burning will occur at the North end of the park in the areas of: North Canyon...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: A new study suggests that it is possible to change the cycle of craving unhealthy foods by retraining the brain to stop activating its reward centers on exposure to a steady stream of high-calorie foods and visual triggers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded study addresses concerns among weight-loss experts that when people get used to eating instant-gratification foods, such habits may be nearly impossible to stop or reverse.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced that Samuel Franklin Crews (32, Lake City) today pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years, up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. Crews was arrested on Dec. 31, 2013, in Lake City and has been in federal custody since that time. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: Sold Drugs from Paschall Auto Body Shop in Baltimore, and Robbed Businesses and Homes in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Joseph Michael Diaz, 32, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Maurice M. Paul to 60 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: FRITCH, TX -Fire managers plan to continue prescribed burns at Lake Meredith National Recreation Area beginning the week of March 8, 2015. Multiple prescribed burns are planned totaling approximately 2,850 acres. Prescribed burning will occur at the North end of the park in the areas of: North Canyon...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two Camden men today admitted their roles in a conspiracy to sell 22 guns without a license, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: A Dearborn woman pleaded guilty to tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway has sentenced Anthony Kenty Soto-Lopes (34, Orlando) to five years in federal prison for possessing an unregistered machinegun, silencer, and short barreled rifle, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Court also ordered him to forfeit five Glock pistols that law enforcement recovered from his residence during the investigation. Soto-Lopes pleaded guilty on Dec. 19, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Laura Butler (40, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft. She faces a maximum penalty of seven years in federal prison, with a two-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo.- The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office is seeking public comments on 17 Special Recreation Permit applications, including two new applications and 15 applications for renewals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on March 6, 2015, Easter Jimison, 37, of Collinsville, Illinois, pled guilty to three counts of Bank Burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: Eight defendants pleaded guilty this week.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
Release: Washington, DC, March 6, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will be awarding over $30 million in grants to help schools prepare healthy meals for their children. Twenty-five million dollars in grants will help schools purchase needed equipment to make preparing and serving healthier meals easier and more efficient, and up to $5.5 million will provide additional training for school food service professionals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California -A federal jury has convicted two Southern California residents in connection with a scheme to defraud union and private health insurance programs by submitting bills for more than $71 million - and receiving over $50 million in payments - for medically unnecessary procedures performed on insurance beneficiaries who received free or discounted cosmetic surgeries.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), the Chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Members of Congress from Texas will hold a roundtable meeting at Rice University in Houston next Tuesday with job creators and transportation stakeholders to discuss Houston’s and the country’s infrastructure, and its importance to remaining economically competitive in the 21st century.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: A St. Louis man, convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison on March 6, 2015, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Eric Watson, 28, of St. Louis, MO, received a 57 month sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Seven people were sentenced this week for their roles in a drug conspiracy involving the shipment of cocaine and methamphetamine from Laredo to Dallas and Houston, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher Holmes, 23, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for killing a man in 2008 after a confrontation at a Southeast Washington barber shop, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
