News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. “Gar Guy" admits that he transported alligator killed in violation of state and federal law. BEAUMONT, Texas - A 49-year-old Kennard, Texas, hunting and fishing guide has pleaded guilty to transporting an alligator that he knew had been shot in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Several members of a large scale drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating out of the Zapata area from approximately 2006 through 2011 have received significant federal prison sentences, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Patrick Shane O’Ferrall of Piney Flats, Tenn., was sentenced to a statutory maximum sentence of 120 months in prison, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge. Upon his release from prison, O’Ferrall will be subject to supervised release under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for the remainder of his life. O’Ferrall was also ordered to pay restitution to a victim, whose image was among the child pornography depictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney J. Walter Green announced that another public official has been sentenced in Operation Blighted Officials. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson today sentenced RICHARD L. CHAMBERS, SR., age 68, of LaPlace, Louisiana, to 30 months imprisonment, 1 year...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Chequlia Motley of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison yesterday for conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George L. Beck, Jr., announced. Motley had previously pleaded guilty to those charges in May.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Friday, August 9, 2013, Javier Negrón-Arce, 47, was arrested at his place of residence after an HSI investigation, which stemmed from a referral from the Puerto Rico Police Department’s Sexual Crimes Division, and revealed that he allegedly transported a 16-year-old minor identified...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Bevan Ray Bordeaux, a 26-year-old man from Eagle Butte, South Dakota, pled guilty to two charges of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding and was sentenced on Aug. 12, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Several members of a large scale drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating out of the Zapata area from approximately 2006 through 2011 have received significant federal prison sentences, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Considered extirpated (absent) from Washington since the mid-1990s, the Pacific fisher Pekania pennanti) is the only native carnivore that is no longer found within the Cascade Range of Washington State. In 1998, the State formally listed the fisher as endangered, and in 2004, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the West Coast fisher as a federal candidate for listing as an endangered or threatened species.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Defendant Moved from Elk City, Oklahoma to Saratoga Springs, New York without Properly Registering as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), today announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging JAMES MEYER, a former assistant to artist...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Shaun Sporrer, age 41, of Murdo, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Aug. 13, 2013, and pled guilty to the Indictment that charged him with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the availability of loan and grant funds to support rural microentrepreneurs and microenterprises.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Rahway, N.J., man who was the vice principal at Carteret High School was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal jury found Glen A. “Andy" Miller, 48, of West Monroe, guilty Wednesday of bank fraud. United States District Judge Robert G. James presided over the trial.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the recent violence in Egypt.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana and Possession of Methamphetamine in two different cases, was sentenced on Aug. 12, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Tokyo, Japan - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding Egypt while on travel in Asia:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - The leader of an organized crime group was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for drug trafficking and money laundering after a multi-year FBI task force investigation into illegal activity in Boston’s Chinatown.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- William D. Jones, M.D., who practices in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay $60,000 to the United States to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
