News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Maria Garcia, 33, of Okeechobee County, was sentenced today on charges of aiding and assisting the preparation and presentation of false tax returns, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Travis Olt, 40, of Irving, Texas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 150 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2013 to an Information charging one count of transporting and shipping child pornography. Judge Lindsay remanded Olt, who had been on bond, into custody. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Gabriel Tenorio, 30, the getaway driver in the May 1, 2013, armed robbery of a Lubbock National Bank, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 140 months in in federal prison. A resident of Lubbock, Tenorio has been in custody since his arrest in early June 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) lauded the Senate confirmation of Jeh Johnson as the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Senate confirmed Mr. Johnson by a vote of 78 to 16. He is the fourth Secretary of the Department, which was established in March 2003. Chairman Carper released the following statement after Mr. Johnson’s confirmation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Michigan Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense office, joined U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., in announcing today that the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan was honored with a Patriot Award in recognition of its extraordinary support of its employees serving in the United States military Reserve Components. U.S. Attorney Miles accepted the award on behalf of the office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Michael Covello, 43, of Chili, N.Y., who was convicted of the sexual exploitation of children, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release, by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Paul Harvilicz, 62, of Copperas Cove, Texas, was sentenced on Friday, by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to six years in federal prison following his guilty plea in August 2013 to a superseding indictment charging one count of attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor. Harvilicz...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding the Committee’s fourth field hearing on the Affordable Care Act taking place in Richardson, Texas today...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell woman was charged with misuse of a social security account number.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Acquiring Controlled Substances by Fraud and Theft in Connection with Healthcare.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Seven individuals from central Massachusetts were charged today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for operating a million dollar marijuana conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has issued the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the “Wabash Avenue/Porter Access Site for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore". The FONSI document can be found online at.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Three investigators who worked on a federal prescription drug trafficking prosecution involving a user who died from an overdose, and another investigator whose mastery of facial recognition software and other digital tools helped build federal immigration cases are this year’s winners of Guardian of Justice Awards, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Windber, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 168 months in prison, five years supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution to the victim, on his conviction of kidnapping, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIO MEJIA, 38, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 38 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio today, Senior U.S. District Judge David Ezra sentenced four individuals for their roles in a San Antonio methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Royce Spann, 28, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced in federal court on Dec. 16, 2013, to 97 months’ in prison, 5 years’ supervised release after his imprisonment, and a $100 special assessment, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and After Dark in the Park programs with the community and visitors in January - which is also Volcano Awareness Month, established by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. All programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - A federal indictment was unsealed today naming RONALD L. ROBERTS as the culprit in a multi-million-dollar loan fraud scheme. The indictment alleges that Roberts solicited personal loans for a fictitious real estate transaction involving property in or around Poplar Bluff, Missouri, from...
