News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces today the filing of a criminal complaint charging Michael Alan Klevene (61, Tampa) with transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography. If convicted, Klevene faces a mandatory minimum of 5 years, up to 20 years in federal prison for the transportation and receipt charges, and up to 10 years in federal prison on the possession charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: FEB 01 - (NEW HAVEN, Conn.) - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Joseph Jackson, also known as “Mighty" and “M.I.," 37, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After repeated requests for cooperation and months of delay, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today set a final deadline for the Food and Drug Administration to provide documents relevant to the deadly meningitis outbreak and the agency’s history with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tri Tran, a/k/a “Tony," age 35, a citizen of Vietnam unlawfully in the country and residing in Maryland, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud in connection with a scheme to skim credit card account data and re-encoding the data onto different credit cards used to buy merchandise at retail stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Frank Gonzales Carrasco, age 45 and former Warehouse Operations Buyer for Midland Independent School District (MISD), faces up to ten years in federal prison after admitting to stealing construction materials from the school district announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that after a jury trial which began Jan. 22, 2013, Guy E. Allen and Christopher Mallett were found guilty of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Several crack users testified about the defendants’ distribution in the near south area of Lincoln.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - John Michael Garibay, 22, of Friona, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 57 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $6,541 in restitution for committing the Aug. 27, 2012, armed robbery of the Friona Federal Credit Union, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD C A Rockford, Ill. woman was sentenced today in federal court for bank robbery. LATOYA SHAUNTA BURROWS, 32, of Rockford, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for the robbery of Associated Bank, 612 North Main St., Rockford, Ill., on March 20, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: A marijuana user who unlawfully possessed a gun with an obliterated serial number pled guilty Jan. 31, 2013, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the appointment of a dairy importer member to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (Dairy Board).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Camille Touche, age 27, of Mobridge, South Dakota appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken on Jan. 28, 2013, and pled guilty to a charge of Escape from Custody. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 5 years' imprisonment and/or $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement on the settlement deal approved by a bankruptcy court judge that paves the way for customers of the now-collapsed MF Global to recover much of the $1.6 billion that disappeared. The approved deal will recover about 93 percent of the lost customer money for those with U.S. accounts.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After repeated requests for cooperation and months of delay, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today set a final deadline for the Food and Drug Administration to provide documents relevant to the deadly meningitis outbreak and the agency’s history with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Local Businesses And Customers Victimized By Hacking Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), announced that Kimberly Wendell Rothstein, 38, and Stacie Weisman, 49, pled guilty today to conspiracy to...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial and Los Paisanos de El Chamizal partners are excited to announce details about this year's 38th Annual International Siglo de Oro Drama Festival and pre-Festival events.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Demetrious Fields, 42, of Memphis, TN was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Samuel H. Mays, Jr. to 444 months in prison for his role in the Craig Petties Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO), announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III and Resident Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Memphis office Brian Chambers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Texas man was indicted by a federal grand jury for Mailing Threatening Communications.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After repeated requests for cooperation and months of delay, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today set a final deadline for the Food and Drug Administration to provide documents relevant to the deadly meningitis outbreak and the agency’s history with the...
