News published on Federal Newswire in October 2015

News from October 2015



News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that CARMA LYNN ELLIOTT, age 45, of Durant, Oklahoma, pled guilty to an Information charging her with EMBEZZLEMENT FROM INDIAN TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1163.


Park Hosts Birds of Prey at Oconaluftee Visitor Center

News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials invite the public to a special birds of prey program presented by Doris Mager on Sunday, October 25 at 10:00 a.m. The program will be on the porch of the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ardit Ferizi, a citizen of Kosovo, has been detained by Malaysian authorities on a U.S. provisional arrest warrant alleging that he provided material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and committed computer hacking...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) announced by the Government of Burma...


News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding the decision by David Daleiden, the head of the Center for Medical Progress, to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions about his group’s potentially illegal three-year effort to unsuccessfully entrap Planned Parenthood...


News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Charles Eugene Mears (56, Orange Park) to seven years and six months in federal prison for receiving child pornography over the Internet. He was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and pay $3,000 in restitution to one of the victims.


News Release: Executives Charged with Conspiring to Defraud the United States of More Than $10 Million.


Former Upper Arlington Financial Advisor Sentenced for Defrauding Investors

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jason W. Cox, 39, now of Dublin, Ohio was sentenced to 60 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $ 412,252 in restitution to the victims, one of which was an impaired adult, of his scheme to defraud them of the funds they had invested through him as their financial advisor. Cox previously pleaded guilty on July 8, 2015 to two counts of money laundering, two counts of mail fraud, and one count of wire fraud.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Philadelphia man was sentenced today to 126 months in prison for


Pill Mill Operator Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute Oxycodone and Other Drugs in Maryland and New York

News Release: Case Highlights Law Enforcement Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute “Pain Clinics" that are Fronts for Criminals Who Divert Pharmaceutical Drugs.


Local Man Sentenced to 64 Years in Prison on Carjacking, Drug & Firearms Charges

News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darrell A. Scott was sentenced to 64 years in prison on multiple charges involving two local, armed carjackings, as well as unrelated drug and firearm charges.


Boston Man Indicted for Armed Bank Robbery

News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with robbing a Citizens Bank in Brighton.


Carjacking/Rapist Found Guilty By A Jury

News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka “Cano Llorens," was found guilty on all counts of carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence (carjacking) and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States District Judge José A. Fusté presided over the trial. The convict had pled guilty to three counts of carjacking in the same accusation on October 6, 2015.


News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Larceny was sentenced on October 6, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.


News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Jessica A. Teets, 27, of Brighton, Illinois, pled guilty in the U.S. District Court on Oct. 13, 2015, to the charge that she engaged in a scheme to defraud a health care program. Sentencing has...


News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom will speak during an all-day hate crimes symposium Nov. 4 in Kansas City, Kan. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.


News Release: Devils Tower, WY -. America's National Park Service sites contain many cherished treasures. As darkness falls on Devils Tower, a different kind of light illuminates the night sky. That light, which comes from objects out in space transforms the night from a place of darkness into a place of wonder. To...


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Philadelphia man was sentenced today to 126 months in prison for trying to deliver 1.7 kilograms of pure methamphetamine in Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.