News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Paul, Minnesota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Melvin Douglas, a/k/a Melvin Longwood, age 32, of Washington, D.C., today to 10 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for transporting a minor across state lines to engage in prostitution. Judge Chasanow...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, two mortgage loan officers were sentenced for recruiting straw buyers to purchase properties at inflated prices and then distributing the excess loan funds among themselves, the straw buyers, and others involved in the scheme. United States District Court Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that three members of a Southwest Idaho drug trafficking organization were sentenced to serve federal prison sentences for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The defendants appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Kyle Hansen, 25, of Palmer, Alaska, was charged by a federal criminal complaint in Anchorage on charges of assault on a Federal Officer, destruction of government property, and illegally entering a military property.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 55-year-old man was sentenced for the Jan. 2, 2012, robbery of a US Bank in Calhoun Square. United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Thomas Scott Wright, unknown address, to 60 months in prison on one count of bank robbery. Wright was indicted on February 6, 2012, and pleaded guilty on April 27, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 51-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced for distributing child pornography. United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced Robert Andrew Gozola to 240 months in federal prison and, following incarceration, supervised release for life. Gozola was indicted on May 8, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Aug. 22, 2012, to one count of distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jeffrey Walsh, age 35, of Hot Springs, South Dakota appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken on Jan. 28, 2013 and pled guilty to an indictment that charged him with Uttering Counterfeit Obligations of the United States. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 20 years of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Gary Hassell, age 48, of Colorado Springs, Colorado appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno and pled guilty to a Superseding Information that charged him with Failure to Pay Child Support Obligations. Hassell was convicted of that offense and sentenced on Feb. 1, 2013 to probation. He is also to repay the outstanding child support in the amount of $18,452.63.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset County, N.J., man pleaded guilty today to one count of securities fraud and one count of money laundering, admitting that he defrauded victims of an investment scheme by misusing their capital contributions and misrepresenting the performance of their investments, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 4, 2013, Zev Boyd Rush, 32, of Devils Lake, N.D., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to a charge of striking, beating and wounding.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 1, 2013, Susan Lea Combs, a 51 year old resident of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, was sentenced to 120 months (ten years) imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine by United States Senior District Court Judge Ronald Longstaff. Judge Longstaff also imposed a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that on Feb. 1, 2013, Sara Livingston (age: 42) of Beaver Dam was sentenced to serve 3 months of incarceration and ordered to pay $67, 683 in restitution to the Social Security Administration. Livingston had previously pled guilty to theft of government funds and making false statements to the Social Security Administration (SSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Salina man was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison in a drug trafficking case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Onondaga County physician settles for $60,000.00.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: It's Awards Season in Hollywood, and no better time to take the 13th season of Biscayne National Park's Family Fun Fest on a look back of some of the biggest motion pictures in Oscars history. On Sunday, February 10 from 1-4 p.m. at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center, A Salute to Hollywood will remake...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 35-year-old felon from Maplewood pleaded guilty to possessing a loaded.32-caliber revolver. Derek Lee Preston pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Preston, who was indicted on April 12, 2011, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Fort Hill, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to six months in prison to be followed by six months home detention with electronic monitoring and three years supervised release on his conviction of income tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joseph Fareri, 52, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 86 months in prison and six years of supervised release for his role in a drug conspiracy. Fareri was charged, with co-defendants William Andrews and John Marshall, with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and distributing oxycodone...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that Gerard Germaine Jackson, (34 of Houston, TX), entered a guilty plea this morning in United States...
