News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Kenneth Lee Morgan, 51, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced in United States District Court to 32 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing an unregistered firearm. Morgan appeared before the Hon. John C. Coughenour, U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Washington, at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 39-year-old Faribault man was sentenced for fraudulently writing 127 company checks to himself. United States District Court Judge David S. Doty sentenced Ronald Leo Schaeffer to 33 months in federal prison on one count of bank fraud in connection to the crime. Schaeffer was charged on December 6, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Jan. 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan announced today that 16 El Paso, Texas defendants have been arrested, based on a 41-count federal indictment charging violations of federal drug and gun laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jesse Bruner, 46, of Douglas, Ariz., was sentenced this afternoon to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his marijuana trafficking conviction. Bruner’s sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Dennis A. Ulrich, II, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas, and Chief Patrol Agent Scott A. Luck, El Paso Sector, U.S. Border Patrol.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Project Ceasefire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm that was involved in a triple homicide last year. Anthony Walker, 46...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Irvin Scott Yazzie, age 24, of Lower Brule, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on April 30, 2013, and pled guilty to the indictment that charged him with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. The maximum penalty upon...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - A documentary co-produced by Prairie Public Broadcasting (Fargo, N.D.) and the Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership with support from the U.S. Department of Energy has received a 2012 Platinum Best of Show Aurora Award-the highest honor awarded-in the nature/environment documentary...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man pleaded guilty today to theft of government property and money laundering in connection with a scheme to cash U.S. Treasury tax refund checks fraudulently obtained using the stolen identities of Puerto Rican residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Permanuel Castillo, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Ojo Encino, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to using a firearm during a crime of violence, an assault with a dangerous weapon which resulted in serious bodily injury, under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The California Rural Indian Health Board Inc. (“CRIHB"), a nontribal entity and grantee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS"), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (“SAMHSA"), agreed to pay the United States $532,000, and to be terminated from...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - A Kenton County man convicted last December of kidnapping, armed bank robbery and firearm offenses was sentenced to 711 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an indictment charging Shatoubrioune Hare George, who is also known as “Tobie", for conspiring to cash fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks, the Department of Justice, United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The 6-count indictment charges George with conspiracy to commit theft of public funds and with theft of public funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Stanley “Outlaw" Carter, of St. Louis City, pled guilty on April 22, 2013, to one felony count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and a second felony count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Carter entered his change of plea before United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area announces a birding walk with Dr. Charles P. Nicholson at Bandy Creek on Saturday, May 11. Nicholson holds a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and a master's degree from the University of Maine and serves as National Environmental...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Washington - In light of large supplies of sugar on the U.S. market, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it will take the following actions under the waiver authority of the Refined Sugar Re-Export Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Two people were sentenced for the malicious destruction of federally-licensed communications lines, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Two former Special Agents with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General, Rachel Ondrik, age 35, of Frederick, Maryland, and Kirk Yamatani, age 38, of Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to submitting false claims for relocation expenses. Ondrik and Yamatani resigned their positions with the Department of Commerce on March 29, 2013, as required by their plea agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Meet with researchers conducting scientific investigations at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore on May 3 and 4 for "Indiana Dunes, Science, and YOU!" These interactive programs are designed to be fun for all ages and are sponsored by the National Park Service and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Heriberto Aleman-Aguero, 25, a Mexican national formerly living in St. Anthony, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 56 months in prison for possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Aleman-Aguero to serve five years of supervised release following his prison term and forfeit property used in committing the crime. He pleaded guilty to the charge in November 2012.
