News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: The Defendants Stole Almost $250,000 From Two Queens Pay-O-Matic Check Cashing Stores Using Disguises That Included Hollywood-Style Special Effects Masks.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: The Upper Falls Fire southwest of Barnes Point at Lake Crescent continues to smolder in an area of steep, rugged terrain upslope of Marymere Falls.Fire crews have created a fire line around three-quarters of the fire perimeter and are using cliffs and Falls Creek as the remaining containment line.The fire is holding within established fire lines and continues to remain 1.5 acres in size.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today the sentencing of an Oneida area man on charges of arson and insurance fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Marblemount, WA - August 9, 2013 - Below are four, lightning caused fires that are being managed by North Cascades National Park Complex. The current weather forecast shows more lightning tonight and throughout the weekend. Lightning fires are natural, but need to be reported in a timely manner. Be on the lookout for new smoke reports as the busy weekend continues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Operation Coal Dust found 10 sex offenders out of compliance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Tyrone Wheatley, age 44, of Rhodesdale, Maryland, today to 135 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Ricardo Rodriguez-Contreras, 30, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on August 7, 2013, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Rodriguez-Contreras was arrested in Basin, Wyoming. He received time served plus ten days, was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A former Arlington resident was sentenced late yesterday to 82 months in federal prison for stalking and threatening to kill.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Effective 12:00am, Friday, August 9, 2013 fire restrictions will be lifted for the State of Utah, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Park Service and US Forest Service on lands within Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced today that Samuel Robert Conrad, III, 51, and Lynn Spencer Conrad, 53, both of Max Meadows, Va., were sentenced yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to serve terms of imprisonment for violating federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Sayreville, N.J. man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The president, operator and manager of Harry Klause Cars and Trucks Inc., in Ocean City, N.J., admitted today to perpetrating a scheme to defraud automotive loan lenders and customers who traded in and bought vehicles at his dealership, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Cyrinthia Gary, aka Cyrinthia Adams, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to file false tax returns, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and IRS-CI Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on August 8, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, YVONNE OWENS-MORRIS, a 48-year-old resident of Hungry Horse, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Federal charges against a former postal worker from Dorchester were unsealed today in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced the conviction of William Campbell, age 62, of Woodville, Georgia, after a three day jury trial before the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, Chief United States District Court Judge for the Middle District of Georgia in Athens, Georgia on August 8, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Following a four-day trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn yesterday returned a verdict convicting David Ojo of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and identification document fraud. The defendant was a member of an international organized crime conspiracy, operating in Romania, Bulgaria, and the United States, that defrauded victims of tens of thousands of dollars through an Internet scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford has returned an indictment charging three individuals with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme involving the purchase of more than 40 properties throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: On August 8, 2013, DeLawrence C. Borders, a 23-year old East St. Louis, Illinois, man pled guilty in United States Federal District Court, in East St. Louis, to unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen...
