News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Six Southern Illinois residents made their initial appearance in federal court on February 7, 2013, on a one-count second superseding indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, in United States District Court in Benton announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: A California man who was arrested for transporting nearly 250 pounds of marijuana concealed in welder units in the back of his truck was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Broadway - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court on February 6, 2013, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced NATOSHA JUNE BOYD, 26, to 30 months imprisonment followed by 3 years supervised release, for her involvement in a scheme to defraud the United States Government. Restitution was ordered in the amount of $480,810.66.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Alesia Ann Spivey (46, Brandon) today pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud against her former employer, Jabil Circuit, Inc. (“Jabil Circuit"), and one count of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and theft of government funds. Spivey faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for both offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Passaic police officer and organized crime associate from Morris County, N.J., appeared in Newark federal court today on charges he attempted to collect a debt by extortion, U S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Former Owner of “In Tha Game Records" Made and Sold DVDs Containing Copyrighted Movies.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to today’s announcement from the U.S. Postal Service that the agency experienced a net loss of $1.3 billion in the first quarter...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: This past Sunday, former Congresswoman Cardiss Collins (D-Ill.) passed away in Arlington, Virginia at the age of 81. Representative Collins was the first black congresswoman from Illinois and represented her Midwestern district for nearly 25 years. During the 96th Congress she served as chair of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Anthony L. Bryan, 50, of Hancock County, Mississippi, pled guilty on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, to making false statements to the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) for Hurricane Katrina grant money, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Daniel McMullen, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Benton, Illinois, has charged 10 individuals with methamphetamine related offenses, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Those charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine are: Clarence “Buster" Ridlin...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, Luis Santiago, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, Chief of Law Enforcement Steve Adcock announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Chicago, Illinois man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Criminal Trespass.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -Melvin O. Rushing, Jr., 24, of Hampton, Va., has been convicted by a federal jury of attempting to rob a McDonald’s, forcing the restaurant’s employees into a freezer at gunpoint before fleeing the scene.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Martin Glaves Kuna, 66 of Vancouver, Washington, plead guilty today to one count of wire fraud before the Honorable Judge Michael H. Simon for falsely telling customers that he was certified to perform lead based paint inspections and testing in homes, where children resided, when in fact, he was not properly certified by state authorities to do so.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Michael Farnell and James Farnell, residents of Boca Raton, Fla., were sentenced to prison terms today for income tax evasion, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Michael Farnell and James Farnell were previously indicted on April 19, 2012. Judge William P. Dimitrouleas...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: A total of $742,707 in federal forfeiture proceeds has been awarded to the Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office. The award was announced today at the Dubuque Law Enforcement Center by Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa Sean R. Berry, United States Marshal for the Northern District of Iowa Kenneth Runde, and Dubuque County Sheriff Don Vrotsos.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A superseding indictment, returned yesterday in federal court, has added 13 more defendants for their roles in an alleged sex trafficking and prostitution ring stretching from Mexico to Georgia, to Florida, to the Carolinas, and elsewhere. In total, 25 defendants have now been charged in the superseding indictment, which follows the original 12-defendant indictment returned in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Barbara McQuade and Erick Martinez, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, along with E. C. Woodson, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service, and Jeffrey Frost, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service announced a crackdown on tax identity theft and other related charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper released the following reaction to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service lost $1.3 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013...
