News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on Aug. 28, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: At a ceremony at the European Union (EU) Delegation in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D., NOAA acting administrator and Alain Ratier, EUMETSAT’s director general, signed the agreement. They were joined by Dr. Francois Rivasseau, deputy chief of mission, EU Delegation to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Racine Whirlwind Soldier, a 28-year-old woman from St. Francis, South Dakota, pled guilty to Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding and Simple Assault and was sentenced on Aug. 26, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno. She was sentenced to 18 months of probation on each count, to be served concurrently; $239.70 in restitution; and a $35 assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: RYAN BURLETT, age 34, and DAMIEN BURLETT, age 39, both residents of Orleans Parish, were charged today in a one-count Bill of Information for setting fires on the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in violation of Title 16, United States Code, Section 688 dd(c), (f)(1), announced United States Attorney Dana Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: ROGER BRENT CHURCHWELL, age 38, a resident of Vero Beach, Florida, plead guilty as charged today before U.S. District Judge Helen G. Berrigan, after previously being charged with receiving images depicting the sexual victimization of children, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 40-year-old Mineola, Texas man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man today admitted his role in a widespread foreign student visa fraud that took place in Iselin and Jersey City, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Deborah West has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for stealing federal retirement benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Kirk A. Simmons, age 59, of Newark, Delaware, was arrested earlier today and charged by criminal complaint with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Calif. - The Drug Enforcement Administration Oakland Resident Office in cooperation with the Richmond Police Department and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office arrested twenty-three members of a violent street gang based in Richmond, California. As a result of this four month...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Middle District of North Carolina. Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. Ordered to serve prison time and pay restitution. GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina announced today that two Alamance County residents...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that AVIJIT MITRA, M.D., with an office at 270 Amity Road in Woodbridge, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the government in which he will pay $45,000 to resolve allegations that he violated civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - - The leader of a major heroin distribution network and twelve associates based in Syracuse, NY have been arrested as part of a three month investigation. Reinaldo Santos was arrested yesterday, August 26th after a two day enforcement operation spearheaded by the High Intensity Drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man and woman were indicted by a federal grand jury today for engaging in a bank fraud scheme in which they unlawfully received more than $100,000 in student loans under another person’s name.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago White Sox scouting executive was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for accepting approximately $440,000 in kickbacks from the signing bonuses and contract buyouts that two of the team’s Latin American scouts paid to secure 23 prospective players between December...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man who used to work for the Garmin company in Olathe, Kan., has been indicted on federal charges of stealing more than $1 million worth of GPS devices from the company, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: WEST BRANCH, IOWA- On Saturday, Sept. 28, volunteers around the nation will visit their favorite parks, beaches, wildlife preserves, or forests and chip in to help improve these treasured places and to celebrate the 20th annual National Public Lands Day, the largest, single-day volunteer event for public lands in our country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that an Information was filed today in U.S. Middle District Court in Williamsport against Matthew Mitchell Wilson, age 22, of Indian Trail, North Carolina. The Information charges Wilson with e-mailing a false bomb threat to the Low Security Correctional Institution at Allenwood on March 31, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: CRISTINO NUNEZ, age 48, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan to theft of government money, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
