News from August 2013
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: SITKA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK - National Park Service wood conservators Ron Sheetz and Al Levitan performed Sitka National Historical Park's first comprehensive totem pole condition survey 20 years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man has been charged by Criminal Complaint for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Lawrence Higgins, 62, of Seneca Falls, N.Y., pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and being a felon in possession of a firearm before the U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. As a result of a prior Seneca...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Luis Miguel Villalobos, of Fresno pleaded guilty today to possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska:On Friday, August 23 Dr. Terrence Cole, Professor of History and Northern Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), will speak about the Sourdough Expedition of 1910, which on April 3 of that year became the first to reach the north peak of Mt. McKinley. This group of four...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ramany Puthavongsa, 48, of Fresno, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to three years and 10 months in prison for growing marijuana in Merced County, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: For Series of Attacks Against Taxicab Drivers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: Richard Olive Also Ordered to Pay Over $5.9 Million in Restitution to 190 Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that Sgt. Shannon Jeffries, an investigator with the Callaway County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department, has received the 2013 Enoch B. Morelock Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Luis Perez-Barocela, 38, has been ordered to prison for more than 24 years for his participation in a large drug trafficking conspiracy, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. A federal jury in Corpus Christi found Perez-Barocela, of Houston, guilty after three days of trial and less than three hours of deliberation on Thursday, May 30, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: In celebration of the 97th anniversary of the National Park Service (NPS), all 401 national park units-including Chiricahua National Monument-will waive entrance fees on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Known as “Founder’s Day", this event observes the creation of the NPS through an act of Congress back in 1916.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Five men were arrested last week for trafficking heroin in the counties of San Joaquin, Sacramento, and Stanislaus, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Aug. 19, 2013, Hamzo Omerovic of Fargo, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen K. Klein for willfully failing to file an income tax return for calendar year 2006. Omerovic pleaded guilty to the Class A Misdemeanor on March 25, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Michael J. De Palma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: The LIRR Disability Fraud Scheme. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DONALD ALEVAS, a former director of shop equipment planning for the Long Island Railroad (“LIRR"), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges related to the allegedly...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Orian P. Sandoval, 43, a member and resident of San Felipe Pueblo, pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with abusing sexual contact with a child between the age of 12 and 16 years. Sandoval entered his guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that funeral home director John Casey Young, 45, of Vidalia, La., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to 70 months in prison and 9 years of supervised release for knowingly receiving child pornography on his computer. He was also ordered to pay a $16, 750 fine and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania State Trooper Kelly Cruz, 43, of Oxford, Pennsylvania, was charged in a one count indictment, unsealed today, with deprivation of civil rights, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Phillip Amisano-Camillo, 42, a resident of Canada, pleaded guilty on Friday, before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, to one count of enticement of a minor. His trial, on a two-count indictment charging not only enticement, but also one count of traveling with intent to engage in sexual...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: Matthew Brock illegally used a government-issued credit card to purchase thousands worth of fuel; sold an associate diesel belonging to Guard facility in Red House.
