News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: RONALD TAYLOR, age 20, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: CONYERS, Ga. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Biolab Inc. with one repeat and six serious safety violations following a March inspection at the company's facility in Conyers. The agency initiated the inspection upon receiving a complaint, and has proposed penalties of $46,250.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: National parks like Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore offer many opportunities for positive healthy lifestyle choices for visitors and local residents. Join the National Park Service and its partners, the American Heart Association and the United Urban Network, on Saturday, August 24 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education to learn what some of those positive choices could be for you.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Fort Sumter National Monument will present Living History programs on Saturday and Sunday, September 7-8, 2013, the 150th anniversary of amphibious assault on Fort Sumter. Re-enactors representing the Union and Confederates soldiers, sailors, and Marines will present living history programs for visitors...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO -DWAYNE DENARD JOHNSON, Wesley Chapel, Florida, pled guilty to two counts of aggravated identity theft for his role in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme lead by his wife Tania Henderson from their home in suburban Tampa. Johnson is the fifth person involved in the scheme charged and convicted in the Eastern District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: For Murder of 18-Year-Old Girl in Northwest Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced David Russo, age 62, of Hagerstown, Maryland today to 30 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for health care fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid by billing for prescriptions...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Craig Petties, 36, of Memphis, TN was sentenced today to nine life sentences in federal prison by United States District Judge Samuel H. Mays, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 25-year-old Hastings man was sentenced for producing child pornography. United States District Judge Ann D. Montgomery sentenced Mark Matthew Cortes to 360 months in prison, along with a lifetime of supervised release, on one count of production of child pornography. Cortes was indicted on Dec. 3, 2012, and pleaded guilty on April 9, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mehdi Khorramshahgol, 50, formerly of Centreville, Va., was convicted on Tuesday by a federal judge after a bench trial for violating U.S. economic sanctions on Iran by sending explosion-graded industrial parts to a petrochemical company in Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution and Receipt of Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Richard Johnson, age 49, of Lower Brule, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Aug. 19, 2013, and pled guilty to the Indictment that charged him with Abusive Sexual Contact of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Nicolas Perret was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison for transporting child pornography, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Park rangers were notified today around 12:30 p.m. via cell phone that a 22-year-old male had fallen 30 feet while climbing Batman Pinnacle on Lumpy Ridge, a popular rock climbing area within the park. Minutes later people on scene started CPR on the victim. He did not recover.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today, charging Andres Guzman, 27, of Southern California, with possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. “Whites Only" Enterprise Dealt Methamphetamine and Murder. BEAUMONT, Texas - A 49-year-old Hull, Texas, woman has pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to her association with a “white’s only" criminal enterprise that engaged in methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Utah Department of Public Safety Also Gets Forensic Science Grant. SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded Edward Bryne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants (JAG) to Murray and West Jordan to support...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Aug. 22, 2013, Colt D. Schneider, 19, Rapid City, S.D., was found guilty by a federal jury in U.S. District Court on a charge of bank robbery and a charge of use and carry of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Police also found 17 firearms, hundreds of marijuana plants at defendant’s residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jacob Aniceto Jose Villarreal, 29, of Brownwood, Texas, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography. Villarreal has been in custody since his arrest in June...
