News published on Federal Newswire in April 2013

News from April 2013


News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will host the Thirteenth Annual Spring Planting Day celebration on Saturday, April 27, 2013. The event will take place in the areas adjacent to the Bandy Creek Visitor Center and the Lora Blevins home place from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. EDT. Prospective Junior Rangers will be able to earn a Junior Ranger patch and badge at Spring Planting Day which also coincides with National Park Week.


Man Sentenced For Money Laundering And Harboring Aliens

News Release: A Costa Rican citizen who harbored illegal alien workers by employing them as roofers in Iowa and elsewhere, and who laundered the proceeds of his criminal activity, was sentenced in federal court in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, April 18, 2013.


News Release: GET TO KNOW LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA DURING NATIONAL PARK WEEK APRIL 20-28.


News Release: Pointed Firearm At Teller; Captured By Seattle Police Just Blocks Away.


St. Francis Man Pleads Guilty To Failure To Register As A Sex Offender

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Patrick Black Spotted Horse, age 23, of St. Francis, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on April 16, 2013 and pled guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 10 years in custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; life of supervised release; and a $100 special assessment.


Catonsville Real Estate Appraiser Sentenced to Prison in Scheme to Obtain over $4 Million in Fraudulent Mortgage Loans

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced real estate appraiser David C. Christian, age 63, of Catonsville, Maryland today to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Judge Bredar also ordered Christian to pay restitution of $2,440,804.


News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Las Vegas attorney Paul Wommer was found guilty this afternoon of tax and money structuring charges following a three-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.


Two Individuals Enter Pleas To Firearms Charges

News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that 3 men from South Dakota convicted of Possession of a Controlled Substance were sentenced on April 16, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.


News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that GEORGE TIRADO, 36, of Wolcott, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to a federal conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to direct illegal campaign contributions into the campaign of a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.


Title Attorney, Two Mortgage Brokers And Their Coconspirators Sentenced In Mortgage Fraud Scheme

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and J.D. Patterson, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), announced the sentencing of Rafael Ubieta, 50, of Miami, Florida, and Angel Barroso, 46, of Miami, Florida, following their January 2013 convictions of conspiracy...


News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Barclay Trimble invites children throughout the Outer Banks to take part in National Junior Ranger Day at their local national park sites on Saturday, April 20. "Becoming a Junior Ranger is a fun way for children to explore and learn more about the National Parks and how they can help protect these important sites," stated Trimble.


Mills County, Iowa Resident Sentenced To 135 Months For Manufacturing Methamphetamine

News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On April 18, 2013, Adam Michael Blackman, a 40 year old resident of Mills County, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 135 months imprisonment for Manufacturing Methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief Judge Gritzner also ordered Blackman to serve an eight year term of supervised release following incarceration.


Judge Sentences Fayette County Heroin Dealer To 10 Years In Prison

News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Uniontown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to120 months imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Cocaine And Heroin Trafficker Sentenced To Over 14 Years In Prison

News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Carlos Edward Gomez37, of Le Marque, Texas, was sentenced today to 178months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and one kilogram of heroin.


News Release: On April 18, 2013, Antonio Rea-Fabela, 36, a citizen of Mexico, who most recently resided in St. Louis, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in East St. Louis, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. The Grand Jury charged...


Two Men Found Guilty In International Investment Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme

News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that a federal jury today found United Kingdom citizens Paul R. Gunter (64, Odessa, Florida; originally of London), and Simon Andrew Odoni (56, Hertfordshire, UK) guilty of three counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud...


News Release: CITY, KY - Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) jointly announced today that a physician from Prestonsburg, Ky., paid the U.S. Government $50,000 to settle civil claims that she failed to account for nearly 5,000 prescription pills at her office.


News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Barclay Trimble invites children throughout the Outer Banks to take part in National Junior Ranger Day at their local national park sites on Saturday, April 20. "Becoming a Junior Ranger is a fun way for children to explore and learn more about the National Parks and how they can help protect these important sites," stated Trimble.


Maryland Resident Enters Plea To Failure To Update Sex Offender Registration

News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.