News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man from Johnson County, Kan., has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, including images of an unclothed two-year old boy in a roaster pan in an oven, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Brandon Lee Scott, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Second Class, of Dickinson, has entered a plea of guilty to theft of government property, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Dickinson County women has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for embezzling from a credit union where she worked, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. She also was ordered to pay $817,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on February 6, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, ELIZABETH MEDICINE TOP, a 47-year-old resident of Lame Deer, appeared for sentencing. MEDICINE TOP was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Abel Camacho-Ortega was sentenced in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis on Feb. 11, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Camacho-Ortega, 42, a citizen of Mexico who most recently resided in Granite City, Illinois, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s, Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), announced that Broward County resident Jaime Sotomayor Vega, 35, of Hollywood, was charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Judge Also Orders Defendant to Pay $4.7 Million in Restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: On April 30 - May 1, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Drug Enforcement Administration will host a free workshop on the NIST Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus to explore emerging trends in the forensic analysis of synthetic cannabinoids, substituted cathinones, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Defendant's Sentence Enchanced Based on Career Offender Status.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA - America's Promise Alliance has named Flagstaff as one of the 100 Best Communities for Young People. Flagstaff Area National Monuments is joining the Coconino Coalition for Children and Youth, Flagstaff Unified School District, and other community partners in celebrating our Flagstaff families.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Claudio Alberto Morales-Medrano, 40, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 51 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his bank robbery conviction. Morales-Medrano also was ordered to pay full restitution to the victim of his crime. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: On February 8, 2013, Steven A. Smith, 33, of Johnston City, IL, pled guilty in United States District Court in Benton to a one-count indictment which charged conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Michael W. Cotter of the District of Montana, and United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson of the District of South Dakota announced the results of Operation Rolling Thunder, a two-year covert investigation focusing on unlawful trafficking in federally-protected migratory birds, primarily bald and golden eagles. The operation was conducted by agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from March 2008 through February 2011 in Montana and South Dakota.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unveiled a new Keystone Clock as well as an extensive, online Keystone resource center detailing the long history of the still yet-to-be approved Keystone XL pipeline. At 1,606 days and counting since the initial application was submitted to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Reginald D. Dargan, Jr., age 21, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 135 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for the March 30, 2011 armed robbery of a jewelry store in the Columbia Mall. Judge Blake also ordered Dargan to pay restitution of $33,255.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Deanne Marie Cottle, 63, of Swan Valley, Idaho, a former vice president of Bank of Commerce of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for embezzling $142,008.60 from the bank, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban immigration consultant is among two defendants who were arrested after being indicted for allegedly conspiring to arrange fraudulent marriages to evade immigration laws and enable foreign nationals to illegally become U.S. legal permanent residents. The pair allegedly arranged at least four fraudulent marriages and attempted to arrange a fifth between foreign national and undercover agent who was posing as a U.S. citizen.
