News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Will Randy Rogers (64, St. Augustine) pleaded guilty yesterday to extortion. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Jess Ramirez-Orta, 27, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2015, to eight years in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine. Ramirez-Orta’s girlfriend and co-defendant, Marina Morales, 24, also of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced to three...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Reps. John Kline (R-MN), Tim Walberg (R-MI), and Phil Roe (R-TN), and U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Tim Scott (R-SC), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Pat Roberts (R-KS), yesterday introduced legislation to provide legal certainty-and eliminate confusion caused by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)-for employers offering employee wellness programs that lower health insurance premiums to reward healthy lifestyle choices.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Explosion Moved Walls, Threw Debris Some 25 Feet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LARRY MATHEWS, 34, of Pawcatuck, Conn., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Benjamin Hugron, 33, of Concord, was sentenced on Monday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 17 years in prison on robbery and firearms charges, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - Two men whose hash oil manufacturing operation exploded on New Year’s Day 2014, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to federal prison terms. Robby Wayne Meiser, 46, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and Bruce W. Mark, 62, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release. The men were ordered to pay over $97,000 in restitution for damage to the apartment building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Continuing its enforcement push against refund fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service today announced the Top Ten Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14). The ongoing efforts to bring identity thieves to justice remains a significant priority as part of the IRS’s comprehensive identity theft strategy focusing on preventing, detecting and resolving identity theft cases as soon as possible.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert M. Fowler, 61, of York Springs, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday for workers' compensation fraud involving $24,934.68 of benefits he was not entitled to receive. U.S. District Court Judge William W. Caldwell...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ryan Chord, 35, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced today to 54 months in prison on federal charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, released the following statement in response to the House approval of H.R. 240, a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the rest of fiscal year 2015. Sen. Carper joined 67 of his Senate colleagues to support H.R. 240 last Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Felix Moreno-Garcia and Fabian Pineda-Garcia have been sentenced for possessing over four pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Involved in the production and shipment of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury in Oklahoma City convicted three Florida men and a Florida corporation today for their participation in an illegal international gambling and money laundering enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Sanford C. Coats of the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Salathiel D. Harrison, age 38, of Fountain Inn, South Carolina, has been sentenced in federal court in Anderson, to conspiracy to steal mail, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. Senior United States District G. Ross Anderson, Jr. of Anderson sentenced Harrison to 27 months imprisonment. He also ordered Harrison to pay restitution to the victims of his crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Following a seven-day trial, three Worcester men were convicted yesterday of distributing crack cocaine in the City of Worcester and surrounding areas. Sergio Hernandez, 33, James "Speedro" Dunston, 33, and Anthony Wooldridge, 30, were convicted of conspiracy with the intent to distribute over ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: The year-long celebration of Rocky Mountain National Park's 100th Anniversary continues as we head into March. Spring into celebrating with us by attending these fun events!.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man and woman have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in conspiracies to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in Boone County, Mo., and to promote prostitution in Boone County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Puglisse, 68, of Harrisburg, was sentenced today for conspiracy to engage in illegal gambling. U.S. District Court Judge William W. Caldwell sentenced Puglisse to one year probation and ordered him to pay a fine of $4,000.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced it is offering a public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Corral in Fallon, Nevada, March 7. This is one of three facilities in Nevada that provide care to wild horses and burros removed from the range, including horses recently gathered from the Fish Creek...
