News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal jury in McAllen has convicted Mexican National Felipe Oviedo-Cerda, aka Felipe Telles-Sanchez or Mario Trevino-Leal, 55, on one count of illegally re-entering the country, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The verdict was returned following a two-day trial and approximately two hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tayvon Dobson, age 23, of Cambridge, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to attempted murder of a federal officer and using a gun during the attempted murder.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy today announced the recent appointment of two key senior staff members to the Office of Fossil Energy - Julio Friedmann, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal, and Paula Gant, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of New York. Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced John Allen Talerico, age 50, of Cumberland, Maryland, to nine years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for three armed bank robberies. Judge Garbis also ordered Talerico to pay restitution of $31,206.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ROBERT BRADDOCK, JR., 34, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 38 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Aug. 27, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, GERALD CHRISTOPHER CALF BOSS RIBS, a 30-year-old resident of Browning and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, pled guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Sentencing has been set for Dec. 12, 2013. He is currently detained.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) independent Inspector General (IG) to investigate the fraud case within the EPA's Office of Air. On Friday, a court case was filed against a high level employee for stealing nearly $900,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Medicines had been donated to be used for indigent patients.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: This Labor Day weekend the natural beauty of Point Reyes National Seashore will be painted by BayWood Artists, featuring some of the best known landscape artists in California. This art exhibit is not to be missed! The show is sponsored by the Point Reyes National Seashore Association and the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced three conspirators from Maryland today, who were convicted by a federal jury following a four week trial, for their participation in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine and heroin in Montgomery County, Maryland and several states.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Aug. 23, 2013, a Federal grand jury returned an indictment against attorney Ramón M. Negrón-Colón, aka “Monchito," and William Barreto-Ortiz, aka “Willie," for conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The investigation was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Join Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in celebration of Constitution Week by attending one of the free special events scheduled September 17-23, 2013 at 1254 Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant. The park preserves the last 28 acres of Snee Farm, a plantation that was once owned by Charles Pinckney, a principal framer and signer of the U.S. Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today the conviction and sentencing of two defendants as part of a prosecution involving 40 individuals across Indiana who allegedly operated a large drug trafficking ring at the direction of inmates within Indiana correctional facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: For Armed Robbery of Ex-Girlfriend. -Defendant and Four Others Used Two Shotguns and Masks During the Robbery-. WASHINGTON - Jayson Lassiter, 23, a volunteer firefighter from Clinton, Md., has been sentenced to a three-year prison term for an armed robbery he committed earlier this year in Northeast Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Logan County, Ill., man, Robert D. McKissic, 33, of Lake Fork, Ill., will serve nearly 12 years in prison for the armed robberies of two rural central Illinois banks. U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough yesterday ordered that McKissic serve a total of 140 months (11 years, 8 months)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran man residing in Everett who faces charges of crimes against humanity and state terror in Spain was sentenced today for immigration fraud and perjury in connection with false statements he made on immigration forms in order to remain in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore is pleased to announce formal launch of self-guided cell phone tours of the Seashore, hosted by OnCell Systems. Each set of stops offers the chance to take a guided tour with a park ranger at your own pace and before or after the open hours of the park...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Advertising conviction is one of the first of its kind in the country.
