News from April 2013
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: Fort Pulaski National Monument will host two days of programming from Saturday, April 13 to Sunday, April 14 to commemorate the 151st Anniversary of the Siege & Reduction of Fort Pulaski.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: Over the past year, many of my constituents have contacted my office asking for more information about the Department of Homeland Security’s plans for purchasing large amounts of ammunition. Given my position on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, I wrote a letter to Sec. Napolitano on Nov. 13, 2012, asking for more information about DHS’s plans for ammunition purchases.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota man was sentenced for Second Degree Murder on April 1, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE") Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced today that NARENDRA TULSIRAM...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owners and managers of a framing company in Spring Hill, Kan., have been charged with harboring undocumented aliens who worked for the company, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Donald Gibson II, 56, of Richmond, has been convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud relating to medically unnecessary diagnostic testing and physical therapy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to rob a South Sioux City, Nebraska, business, and a Sioux City, Iowa business pled guilty March 28, 2013, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: An indictment against former Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy MARK HEBERT, age 48, was announced today by Roy L. Austin Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division; Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Michael J. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New Orleans Field Office; and Newell Normand, Jefferson Parish Sheriff.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The body of a woman recovered from the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park on March 22 has been identified as that of Kaitlin Anne Kenney.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Thanh Quoc Hoang, age 49, a resident of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced on March 28, 2013, on six counts of Bank Fraud against American Express and Fleet Credit Card Services, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344, before the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Court, Macon, Georgia after being found guilty by a jury trial on Aug. 28, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 1, 2013, Aaron Raul Nunez, 25, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 10 years (120 months) in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana between January of 2006 and Sept. 21, 2012. Nunez’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Eric Brown, 49, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced today to seven years in prison for stealing a truck that contained audio and visual equipment belonging to the office of the President of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Caitlin Lucille Walls Smith, age 37, formerly of Wilmington, NC, was sentenced on March 28 by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to a 30-month term of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Judge Rambo further ordered that Smith pay $437,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Stephen B. Lopez, age 57, of Lafayette, California, was arrested on Thursday, March 28, 2013 on mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering charges, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute the prescription painkiller Oxycodone and MDMA, an illegal drug commonly known as “ecstasy," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that the Oregon Inlet, Frisco, and Ocracoke Campgrounds will open to the public on Friday, April 19, 2013.Oregon Inlet and Frisco campgrounds will close at noon on Oct. 14, 2013; Ocracoke campground will close at noon on Oct. 28, 2013.Weather permitting, Cape Point Campground in Buxton on Hatteras Island, will open Sunday, May 26, 2013 for Memorial Day weekend and closes on Monday, Sept. 2, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed late last week charges a 20-year-old Minneapolis man for being a felon in possession of a.22-caliber pistol. Marcus Rashad Davis was charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment, which was filed on Jan. 22, 2013, was unsealed following Davis’s initial appearance in federal court on March 28, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Tevon Harris aka “Da Kidd" and “King Kidd," 21, of Houston, has been ordered detained pending trial on charges related to the trafficking of minors for commercial sex, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit drug dealer who stored firearms, illegal narcotics and cash at his Huntington residence pleaded guilty to federal drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jeffrey Charles, a resident of Grimstead, Va., was sentenced today to serve 46 months in federal prison for conspiring with his daughter and son-in-law to defraud the United States, aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns in his daughter’s name, and filing a false tax return in his own name, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
