News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Fox Chapel resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of unlawful importation of prescription drugs, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, FLORIDA - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that yesterday a federal jury found Antonius Russel Ford (28, Odessa) guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Ford faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date. Ford was indicted on May 13, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Regina Lynn Dean was sentenced yesterday to 5 years in prison for aiding and abetting armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: RICHARD MCNEAL, age 47, a resident of Randallstown, MD, was sentenced in federal court today by U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon for Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods, announced United States Dana J. Boente. MCNEAL was sentenced to 6 months incarceration, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay full restitution in the amount of $5,650 to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Rosauro Pacubas, age 58, of Manila, Philippines, today to five years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Judge Hollander ordered that Pacubas pay $21,600...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA AUG 25 - SEPT 28.
By State Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Sen Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the reported chemical weapon attack by the Assad regime in Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Joshua Nall, 32, of Boise, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. He pleaded guilty to the charge on May 21, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor announced 12 projects will receive a total of $1.4 million to develop applied science tools in support of the Desert and Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. Through cost-share agreements, this funding will be used to support $3.13 million for the development of resource management tools to assist LCC stakeholders.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: GUADALAJARA, Mexico - U.S. and Mexican government agencies came together to host a human trafficking training conference for judges, prosecutors, forensic specialists, psychologists and researchers Aug. 19 to 23 in Guadalajara. The conference was hosted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the National Institute for Immigration.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: A preliminary study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers and colleagues suggests that in some parts of South Carolina, the risk of stroke may be linked in part to regional soil characteristics. These findings could provide new leads for investigating factors associated with the incidence of stroke.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Chicago brothers who organized a large-scale cocaine trafficking operation in Quincy, Ill., were sentenced in federal court today. U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough ordered Sylvester Purham, 24, and Howard Purham, 21, to serve 30-year and 20-year prison terms, respectively, for...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Richard Michael Hursh, aka Richard Tucker, 34, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Aug. 22, 2013, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hursh was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 33 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Jimmy Jones, a resident of Tallapoosa County, Alabama, was sentenced to thirty months in federal prison after a felony conviction for failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Glen Lee Sympson has been ordered to federal prison for committing a bank robbery of Prosperity Bank in Corpus Christi in early 2013, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Sympson pleaded guilty June 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that the leader of a drug conspiracy pled guilty in federal court. The 13 other co-conspirators have previously pled guilty to federal drug charges or have been sentenced for their roles in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Texas man has been sentenced for robbing a Wichita bank, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement after President Barack Obama delivered a speech on higher education. Harkin serves as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which will begin the process of reauthorizing the Higher Education Act this fall. Harkin is also Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Defendant Admits Stealing $449,643 from Click Sales, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. A federal grand jury has charged Brenda Ashcraft, 43, of Milford, Ohio, with defrauding investors of at least $15 million between 2009 and 2013 in a scheme to...
