News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls on February 4, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, MARLYS YOUNG RUNNING CRANE, a 59-year-old resident of Browning, was arraigned and pled guilty to misprision of a felony. Sentencing is set for June 3, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: On Sunday Feb. 3, the backcountry surrounding the Bear Lake area where Mr. Green was last seen was again heavily used by park visitors who were snowshoeing and skiing. The saturation of this area by searchers, dog teams, a helicopter, and large numbers of recreational users provided a great deal of coverage but again with no clues.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Latrobe, Pa., pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to five years probation and six months home detention on his conviction of willful failure to file tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: The Federal grazing fee for 2013 will be $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The 2013 fee is the same as last year’s.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raymore, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing thousands of images of child pornography. Malcolm J. Wolf, 32, of Raymore, pleaded guilty before...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Feb. 1, 2013, Michael James Vore, a 50 year old resident of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, was sentenced to 120 months (ten years) imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine by United States Senior District Court Judge Robert Pratt. Judge Pratt also imposed a period of eight years of supervised release following his incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that a Wood County man was sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for failing to update his sex offender registration under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Randall K. Taylor, 48, Rockport, Wood County, W.Va., previously pleaded guilty in October 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Lyell Glacier Ceases Movement, Adjacent Maclure Glacier Moving at Historical Rate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Marshall, Minnesota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An accountant has entered a guilty plea in Pittsburgh to charges of conspiracy and violating federal tax laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A north suburban man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for amassing a staggering collection of child pornography over a decade. The defendant, DANIEL BERMAN, 49, of Northbrook and formerly of Buffalo Grove, pleaded guilty last July to receiving child pornography, admitting that he had collected more than 100,000 illicit images.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that three Nicholas County residents were sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Felicia Bess, 23, of Summersville, Nicholas County, W.Va., was sentenced today to three years in prison. Co-defendant Roy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Corey Gardner, age 32, Amanda Eldridge, age 33, Stephen Collins, age 26, Chad Seger, age 35, and Slade Smith, age 39, all from Mason City, Iowa, have each been charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Gardner and Seger have also been charged with distribution of methamphetamine, Eldridge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Michael "Mickey" Pena, 45, of Kingsville, has been found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute in excess of 100 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The federal jury returned their verdict just moments ago in Corpus Christi after less than one day of trial and only 30 minutes of deliberation.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Senator David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with six other Senators urged Chairman Allison Macfarlane of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to carefully approach regulatory changes before implementing costly requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Michael Geraghty, age 41, from Mason City, Iowa, have each been charged with two counts of distribution of methamphetamine. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on Feb. 1, 2013, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives this evening approved with bipartisa support two Energy and Commerce Committee initiatives aimed at improving children’s health care: the National Pediatric Research Network Act (H.R. 225) and the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act (H.R. 297).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Winner, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm and Possession of Firearm with Obliterated Serial Number.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) will address the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. at the Renaissance Washington Hotel. Whitfield will outline the subcommittee’s 2013 agenda and discuss how new federal regulations will impact the utilities sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: The report, “An Integrated Biogeographic Assessment of Reef Fish Populations and Fisheries in Dry Tortugas: Effects of No-take Reserves," is the first to evaluate how the 151-square nautical mile Tortugas Ecological Reserve affects the living marine resources of the region and the people whose livelihoods are connected to them.
