News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted on charges related to the robbery of a Shaker Heights bank, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: Normangee Police Chief Joseph Ray “Jody" Navarro, age 40, is in federal custody charged with allegedly using a law enforcement computer system to aid a methamphetamine trafficker announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw and Leon County Sheriff Kevin Ellis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two former New Jersey residents pleaded guilty today before Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick and admitted to participating in multiple armed robberies of stores and businesses located in Luzerne, Schuylkill and Carbon Counties between December of 2011 and February of 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham woman to more than six years in prison for her role in a multi-state identity-theft and counterfeit-check scheme that included recruiting homeless people to cash the fraudulent checks, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Keith Morris, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr., and U.S. Secret Service Acting Special Agent in Charge Jeff Anderson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On Aug. 27, 2013, Oscar Salinas-Olivas, a 34 year old resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to sixty months in prison for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and twelve concurrent months for violation...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Operating hours for many visitor services including campgrounds, concessions, boat inspections, and backcountry permits in Glacier National Park will begin to change after Labor Day weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the arrest of William Garcia, a detective with the Sweetwater Police Department, for alleged use of a counterfeit access device and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Christopher Palacios, a/k/a “Paco," 41, of Filer, Idaho, was sentenced today to 218 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Palacios appeared today before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Feb. 26, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: University Overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for Patients Enrolled in Clinical Trial Research at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HENRY SEGGERMAN pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges related to his participation in a scheme with family members to hide in secret Swiss bank accounts, and not reveal to the Internal Revenue...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will celebrate Cultural Heritage Days at Blue Heron Mining Community all four Saturdays throughout October (October 5, 12, 19 and 25). This multi-weekend event embraces the ways of life and labor of miners and their families who once lived at this coal camp and others in the region around the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: The Walker, while now largely forgotten, served a vital role as a survey ship, charting the Gulf Coast - including Mobile Bay and the Florida Keys - in the decade before the Civil War. It also conducted early work plotting the movement of the Gulf Stream along the Atlantic Coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FEISAL SHARIF, 43, of Branford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to fraud offenses stemming from his operation of a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of approximately $3.6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, N.J., man who allegedly used the internet and social media to create a fictitious high school girl, used that fake identity to establish an online relationship with another person and then falsely reported the girl’s kidnapping to a U.S. Embassy was arrested today by federal officials, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: A 54 year-old Wisconsin man sustained multiple traumatic injuries when he was buried by rockfall in the South Fork of Garnet Canyon in Grand Teton National Park. The rockslide occurred at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, and numerous calls for help and multiple SPOT device activations were transmitted beginning at 9:45 a.m. No other people reported injuries and park rangers swept the area to verify no one else was buried by the slide.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2013 – The Climate Change Program Office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of the Chief Economist today released and requested public comments on the report Science-Based Methods for Entity-Scale Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks from Agriculture ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Ozark Mountain Regional Treatment Plant in Arkansas to Serve More Than 20,000 Residents Lead Hill, Ark., Aug. 27, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the completion of the 500th water and wastewater project funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The announcement was made on the Secretary's behalf in Lead Hill, Ark., by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service Administrator John Padalino.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: A USDA assessment shows benefits of farmer-led conservation efforts to reducing runoff, Agriculture Secretary highlights the need for conservation programs provided by a Food, Farm and Jobs Bill WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Tennie White, the owner and operator of an environmental laboratory located in Jackson, Miss., was sentenced in federal court late yesterday to 40 months in prison in connection with her conviction for faking laboratory testing results and lying to federal investigators, announced Gregory K. Davis, U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Three defendants who previously pleaded guilty in connection with an immigration services fraud scheme were sentenced in federal court, the Justice Department announced today. The three defendants formerly worked at Immigration Forms and Publications (IFP), a Sedalia, Mo., company that falsely represented ...
