News published on Federal Newswire in November 2015

News from November 2015


News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that GEORGE M. KOSTUCH, age 46, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick to serve a 3-year term of probation and ordered to pay $161,850 in restitution to the State of Louisiana.


News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Phoenix, Ariz., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine after law enforcement officers seized several pounds of methamphetamine from his hotel room in Columbia, Mo.


Oregon Man Sentenced to Over 14 Years in Prison for Use of a Firearm While Trafficking Methamphetamine

News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Timothy Colhour, age 24, of Otis, Oregon, was sentenced today to 170 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $4,800.00 fine on...


2016 Prisoner of War Research Grant Program Announced

News Release: Release Date: 12 November 2015. Contacts: Jody Mays jody_mays@nps.gov, 229 924-0343, ext 115. Charles Barr charles_barr@nps.gov, 229 924-0343, ext. 112. NR15-08. 2016 Prisoner of War Research Grant Program Announced. ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Andersonville National Historic Site, home of the National...


Two More Arrests As Result Of USDA Feeding Program Fraud

News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Two more people have been indicted for their roles in a scheme to steal federal money. Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Anthony Waits, age 37, of England, Arkansas, and Dorothy Harper, age 50, of England, Arkansas, were arrested after the filing of an 89-count indictment.


News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Today, a federal jury trial culminated in the conviction of Edward A. Leon, 43, of St. Johnsville, New York, of two counts of making false declarations before a federal grand jury, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Delano A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) New York Field Division.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Michael L. Montague, age 65, formerly of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to using a mobile phone to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and to receipt of child pornography.


News Release: Ohio Man Arrested for Soliciting the Murder of Members of the U.S. Military.


News Release: Heavy rain and high winds are forecast to begin late tomorrow over much of the Olympic Peninsula, with a flood watch posted from 10:00 p.m. Thursday through 10:00 a.m. Sunday. As a precaution, the following areas of Olympic National Park will close no later than 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, and may close earlier if needed: Hurricane Ridge, Elwha, Sol Duc, Hoh, Mora and Quinault.


Milford Psychiatrist and Office Employee Charged with Illegally Distributing Narcotics

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Milford Police Chief Keith Mello announced that LJUDMIL KLJUSEV, M.D., who has operated a psychiatry practice located at 227...


Fort Myers Man Sentenced To 8 Years For Possession And Distribution Of Child Pornography

News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced David Erdman (51, Fort Myers) to eight years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervision, for possessing and distributing child pornography. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 14, 2015.


Mobile County Man Sentenced To 46 Months For Role In Bank Robbery

News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Jason Dixon, a 20 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5400.00 to Century Bank on Grand Bay Wilmer Road in Grand Bay, Alabama. After completion of his incarceration, he will serve a term of supervised release of three years.


Former Belton Woman Pleads Guilty to Stealing $471,000 from Employer

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Belton, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling $471,000 from her employer.


Verona Island Man Sentenced to Almost Seven Years on Firearms Charge

News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Oscar Nunez, 28, of Verona Island, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 82 months in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Nunez pleaded guilty on Jan. 20, 2015.


Engel Statement on OAS Efforts to Ensure Free and Fair Legislative Elections in Venezuela

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement praising Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro for his recent letter to the head of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council Tibisay Lucena urging her to level the playing field to make the country’s December legislative election free, fair and transparent...


News Release: East Chicago Councilman, Robert Battle. HAMMOND- United States Attorney David Capp announced today that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Robert Battle, age 42, of East Chicago, Indiana with knowingly and intentionally killing Reimundo Camarillo, Jr. on Oct. 12, 2015...


Former Dallas County Probation Employee Sentenced to 97 Months in Federal Prison for Role in Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy

News Release: Her Co-Defendants Ran DTO While Incarcerated at Dallas County Jail and from Pleasant Grove Area of South Dallas.


Charlotte Business Owner Involved In Foreclosure Assistance Scheme Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Defraud The United States

News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of North Carolina to conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.


News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky - A Toledo, Ohio, felon who is currently in prison for an aggravated murder conviction, was charged today by federal Information with one count of murder, which occurred in 2005, on the grounds of Fort Knox Military Base, announced U. S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.


News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRUCE LYDEL, age 59, of Bossier City, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with theft of government funds.