News from April 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Dual-polarization is the most significant enhancement made to the nation’s federal weather radar system since Doppler technology was first installed in the early 1990s. Dual-pol radar sends and receives both horizontal and vertical pulses, which produces a much more informative picture of the size and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges today sentenced Marcus Jalany Durias (25, Lake County) to 10 years in federal prison for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon), possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Durias pleaded guilty to the offenses on February 7, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 25, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing entitled “Federal Impediments to Water Rights, Job Creation and Recreation: A Local Perspective." The hearing examined growing federal intrusion that costs American jobs and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was arrested today for allegedly soliciting and accepting a $600 cash payment to assist with filing a false bankruptcy case to avoid paying a fine or fees to the City of Chicago before obtaining the release of a vehicle from the city’s auto pound. The defendant, DANIEL RANKINS, was charged with bankruptcy fraud after an undercover investigation by the FBI and the City of Chicago’s Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Benito Aguilar-Ozuna, aka “Pichollo," a Mexican citizen who was extradited to the U.S. late last year, has been sentenced to prison for nearly 20 years for conspiracy to traffic cocaine, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Aguilar-Ozuna pleaded guilty Jan. 25, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A citizen of Mexico entered a plea of guilty to a one-count indictment and has been sentenced in federal court to three months in prison, no supervised release, and ordered immediately turned over to the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation to Mexico on his conviction of re-entry of a removed alien, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed yesterday charges a 28-year-old Minneapolis felon with possessing a.38-caliber revolver. The indictment, which was filed on April 22, 2013, charges Paul McCurry with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment was unsealed following McCurry’s initial appearance in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pierre, South Dakota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft of Government Funds.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Federal fire officials from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit anticipate conditions will be ideal Friday to ignite a 646-acre prescribed fire designed to improve environmental conditions in the Town of Palisade Watershed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 35-year-old Mexican national who resided in the Reading area at the time of his arrest was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Beaver Falls, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 70 months imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Following a three-day jury trial, a man who was employed as the head softball coach at Silverado High School in Henderson, Nev., has been convicted of multiple counts of child sex exploitation for causing the production of child pornography and exchanging sexually explicit text messages and photographs with a minor girl, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: I thank the Chairman for holding this hearing on the Internal Revenue Service. I am pleased to have the Commissioner before us today. I am also pleased to discuss our landmark health care reform law, which will expand health coverage to 27 million Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney of the Southern District of Florida, Addy Villanueva, Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Christopher B. Dennis, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A day after her trial began in federal court, Susan A. Pratt, age 47, of Crofton, Maryland, pleaded guilty on April 23, 2013 to receipt of unauthorized payments as a government employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: MELVIN JAMES, JR., a 43-year old resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged today in a three-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for his possession with intent to distribute 98 grams of heroin, being a convicted felon in possession of four firearms, and possessing those firearms in furtherance of narcotics trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: TUSCALOOSA - A Northwest Alabama man pleaded guilty Wednesday to arson for a December fire at a Marshall Durbin office building in Haleyville, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey L. Fulton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Tuscaloosa County man on child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Billy Sharp.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: OCALA, Fla. - Senior U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges today sentenced Marcus Jalany (25, Lake County) to 10 years in federal prison for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Durias pleaded guilty to the offenses on February 7, 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) today posted a new issue of Healthy Animals. This semi-annual online newsletter compiles ARS news and expert resources on the health and well-being of agricultural livestock, poultry and fish.
