News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Sean Louis Walsh, 30, a Houston resident, has entered a guilty plea to receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp sentenced Douglas Wayne Bartle, III, also known as Ridgely Douglas Bartle and Douglas Wayne Bartle, Jr., (49, Winter Park) to 20 months in federal prison for wire fraud. The court also ordered Bartle to pay $862,770.12 in restitution to his victim. Bartle pleaded guilty on Nov. 27, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - A Manchester, NH woman was convicted today by a federal jury of two counts of procuring citizenship unlawfully.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 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), Paula A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Antonio J. Gomez, Acting Inspector in Charge, U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: California State University Channel Islands (CI) and the National Park Service (NPS) today announced a partnership to create a field research station on Santa Rosa Island within Channel Islands National Park (CINP). The agreement paves the way for a facility that hosts wide-ranging educational and research opportunities in one of the nation's most ecologically and archaeologically prized island settings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Six Defendants Arrested; Agents Seize Firearms, Crack, Cocaine, Heroin, Money And Drug Paraphernalia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced DOUGLAS STEVENS, 53, to 63 months imprisonment followed by 15 years supervised release and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II, sentenced Omar O'Neill Lewis last week to 57 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by an illegal alien. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 13, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Two owners of Alliance Healthcare Services, L.P., a Dallas home health care agency, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle for their roles in a nearly $1.3 million health care fraud conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. Richardson...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As the conservation group Oceana released a report documenting high levels of seafood substitution in restaurants and grocery stores across the country, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today pledged to introduce legislation in the coming weeks in Congress to improve seafood traceability.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Brookline, Mass. - Co-authors Timothy Layton and Margie Coffin Brown, landscape architects with the National Park Service Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, will present an overview of their recently published Cultural Landscape Report for John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site. The public...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Over $3 Million In Illicit Proceeds Funneled To Pakistani Amusement Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Defendant Downloaded Images of Children as Young as Two-Years-Old.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against J & S Produce Corp.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 19 individuals in connection with a cocaine distribution and bulk cash smuggling conspiracy based in Austin announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, United States Attorney Robert Pitman, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County has been sentenced in federal court to 36 months imprisonment, to be followed by 15 years supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement reacting to a report published today by Mandiant, a Virginia-based cyber security firm, which identifies specific threats for cyber espionage and attacks facing the United States, including by the Chinese government...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: “Today, we traveled to Nogales, Ariz. to see the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) border security operations at the Southwest border and on-going efforts to secure the border, while facilitating lawful travel and trade. We participated in an aerial tour of the U.S.-Mexico border, visited the Mariposa Port of Entry, and met with the men and women who serve on the frontlines to protect our nation’s borders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Jason M. Johnson, 25, of Casper, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Feb. 20, 2013, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Johnson was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received 62 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment and a $500.00 fine. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
