News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An attorney this morning became the third defendant taken into custody in relation to a scheme that offered bogus loan modification assistance to struggling homeowners.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a federal grand jury in Jacksonville has returned an indictment against Ronald Charles Waters (65, Lake City) charging him with two counts of possessing child pornography. On each of these counts, he faces...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh-area pharmacist pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotic laws and was also sentenced pursuant to that plea of guilty, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal jury found three defendants guilty of committing a triple murder in the town of Greece on March 9th, 2010. Richard Anderson, Andrew Wright and Aston Johnson were convicted of the murders of victims Christopher Green, Robert Moncriffe and Mark Wisdom.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - In November 2010, special agents with the Imperial County Narcotic Task (ICNTF) initiated a California State wiretap investigation into the importation and transportation activities of a Drug Trafficking (DTO) based in Mexicali, Baja California (BCN), Mexico. Dubbed Operation...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today approved several measures, including a lease renewal for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that will save taxpayers nearly $150 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Dec. 3, 2013, Imelda Arredondo, 37, of Rio Rico, Ariz., and Yadira Moreno, 35, of Nogales, Ariz., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson. Each pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false federal income tax returns. Moreno was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Elton Lee Flenaugh and Deje D. Silas have been convicted of federal credit card fraud and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Willie Wright III, 32, of Houston, has been sentenced for his role in the robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank on Kirby Drive in Houston in December 2012, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Latasha Callens (35, Tampa) yesterday pleaded guilty to bank fraud, access device fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Callens faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is now recruiting artist submissions for the 2014 Chilkoot Trail Artist in Residency program. Three visual artists - one from Canada, one from the United States and one regional (Yukon or Alaskan residents) will be selected to participate in a cross‐border...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Walter J. Pietralczyk, Jr., age 39, pleaded guilty today to a tax fraud misdemeanor before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas M. Blewitt in Scranton.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council scheduled for Dec. 5 in Silt has been canceled due to weather conditions. The meeting will be rescheduled after the new year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- The owner of Jubilee Joe's Restaurant in Hoover faces federal drug trafficking, firearms and money laundering charges, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey L. Fulton.
By State Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, Dec. 11, he will convene a hearing to examine the future of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. At the hearing, entitled “Afghanistan 2014: Year of Transition," senior officials from the State Department, Department of Defense and USAID will testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: In Waco this afternoon, 31-year-old Bryce Ashley Reed of West, TX, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine for conspiracy to make an unregistered destructive device and attempting to obstruct justice announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and ATF Special Agent in Charge Robert W. Elder, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) has identified a disturbing trend impacting our nation. Prescription drug abuse has resulted in a significant increase in the abuse of heroin. Those addicted to prescription pain medicine often switch to heroin which produces the same effects and is often more readily available and cheaper to obtain.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: A doctor and a park ranger will lead a 45 minute walk around the Oasis of Mara on Friday, December 6, at 10 am. The benefits of exercise will be emphasized and participants will also learn about the history of the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO Patrick Adebowale Sogbein, his wife, Adebola Adefunke Adebimpe, and Eduardo Abad were convicted today by a federal jury, following a 13-day trial, of Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud and Health Care Fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag; David Johnson, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a former Taylorville school bus driver, James Marshall Owens, 43, of Owaneco, Ill., with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of receiving child pornography. The indictment, returned yesterday, also seeks criminal forfeiture of various computers and a telephone belonging to Owens.
