News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Ever Astorga-Ramirez, 34, who most recently resided in Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced on February 8, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Astorga-Ramirez had previously entered pleas of guilty on Nov. 2, 2012, to Possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. District Court Anna J. Brown today sentenced Jefferson F. Williams, 49, of Salem, Oregon, to 60 months in prison for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Virginia Mecham, 40, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty today an information charging her with one count of embezzlement by a credit union employee, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The information was filed in United States District Court in Pocatello on Jan. 31, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - United States Attorney André Birotte Jr. today announced the launch of the “We Love Wildlife" campaign - a public education campaign to promote awareness about the international black market for threatened and endangered species and how United States laws are used to protect those species.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Albany New York--RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces that Dr. WAYNE D. LONGMORE, age 63, of Woodstock, New York, was sentenced on February 7, 2013, in Albany by the Honorable Lawrence E. Kahn, United States District Court Judge, to 6 months home detention...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska- U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that a Colorado man was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court in Fairbanks for transporting an unlawfully taken Dall sheep.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, February 8, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON - A U.S. District Court jury here today convicted Paul David Musgrave, 57, of Warhaw, North Carolina of conspiring to defraud the Mutual Federal Savings...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) has announced that it will being adding mountain bike trails to the more than 13 miles of hiking trails on the 800-acre site.Volunteers are needed to help BLM staff clear corridors, build trails, and assist with...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Justin Lee Gabriel, age 21, of Rosebud South Dakota appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken on Jan. 28, 2013 and pled guilty to an indictment charging him with Escape from Custody. The maximum penalty upon conviction is five years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Videos And Images Were Filmed In Brooklyn Elementary School Classroom.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Carter, 41, was sentenced today to 70 years in prison on charges stemming from the killing of his 13-year-old daughter and the wounding of his ex-girlfriend and a 10-year-old boy, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Passaic County man who had been a fugitive since being charged in 2009 with multiple crimes in connection with an investigation into several loosely connected Balkan criminal enterprises operating throughout New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Canada, and the Netherlands made his initial court appearance today, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Casey Charles, age 33, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud in connection with a scheme in which he promised to help clients make safe investments when in fact he diverted their money for his personal benefit.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is adopting strong ethical standards and other protections for pesticide testing studies that are submitted to the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Joshua Hamilton, 28, from Washington Park, IL, was sentenced on February 8, 2013, in District Court in East St. Louis, IL, on one count of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On February 8, 2013, Aaron Deshawn Watson, age 33, was sentenced to 240 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and five kilograms or more of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge John A. Jarvey also sentenced Watson to ten years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Jose Manuel Zuniga, 42, a Mexican National residing in Houston, has been sent to federal prison for his conviction on one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Zuniga entered a plea of guilty on June 17, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Jeannette L. Margenthaler, 41, of Equality, Illinois, was arraigned in United States District Court in Benton on an indictment charging her with possessing pseudoephedrine with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment, returned by a Federal Grand Jury on February 5th, alleged that the offense occurred on January 8, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Fort Sumter National Monument invites the public to Military Wife-Military Life: How Did We Get From This to This? This free program exploring the history of Fort Moultrie from a woman's perspective will be presented at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center on Sullivan's Island on Saturday, March 23 at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. The program will identify and showcase fashion worn from the American Revolution through World War II.
