News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Blue Springs, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on additional charges for taking a minor across state lines for illegal sexual activity. Today’s charges were added to an earlier indictment for viewing and receiving child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former employee of the Topeka Correctional Facility has been sentenced to five years in prison on a federal gun charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. -In February, the Bureau of Land Management received 40 patented mining claims in or adjacent to public lands in San Juan, Ouray and Hinsdale Counties from the Standard Metals Corporation. This acquisition, totaling about 285 acres, is partial settlement for environmental damage at sites in Colorado, Arizona and Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Late yesterday afternoon, Danny Kevin Brawner, 50, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced to 170 months in prison to be followed by nine years of supervised release for his bank robbery convictions. Brawner also was ordered to pay full restitution to the three banks he robbed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Debora J. Zimmerman, 46, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today in United States District Court to five years’ probation and four weekends in jail for theft from an Indian Tribal Organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Zimmerman to pay $28, 275.93 in restitution. She pleaded guilty to the charge on Sept. 21, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former pharmacist at Walgreens has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Salina man who used a straw buyer to purchase a gun has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 20, 2013, Merrill J. Mann II, 37, New Town, N.D., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Self-proclaimed white-supremacist WILLIAM A. WHITE was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison for soliciting violence to the foreman of a federal jury in Chicago that convicted another white-supremacist, Matthew Hale, in 2004. White stood trial in Chicago in January 2011 and was convicted by a jury of one count of solicitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Jose Gonzalez-Alvarado, 32, of Springfield, Oregon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken to 108 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, Gonzalez-Alvarado will be on supervised release for five years.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As BP and the Department of Justice barrel towards trial -- or a last-ditch settlement -- to determine the fines levied against the oil giant for their 2010 oil spill, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today asked BP to settle their own debt to Congress in the form of documents withheld for nearly...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man has been indicted on federal charges alleging he committed a string of armed robberies, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced today that it has filed suit against the Golden Corral restaurant in Westland, Michigan for violating the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying service to a mother and her minor children based on the appearance of the children's skin due to a genetic skin disorder.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday morning charging Mark Allen Call, age 37, of Layton, with two counts of bank robbery. The indictment alleges Call robbed Zions Bank located at 1420 South 300 West in Salt Lake City twice - once on Feb. 13, 2013, and a second time on Feb. 14, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Round Lake Beach, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court for bank robbery. The defendant, Mohammed Nusrath Ali Khan, 42, was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 62 months in federal prison for the robbery of the Fifth Third Bank, 450 South Randall Road, Algonquin, Ill., on May 23, 2012. In addition, the court also ordered Khan to pay restitution of $5,211 to Fifth Third Bank.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: The new Precision Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colo., has received LEED Gold certification.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Matthew Pendley, 26, a former corrections officer at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today to one count of obstructing justice when he lied to law enforcement during their investigation of the assault on an inmate at the hands of another corrections officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Des Plaines Police Department commander was charged today with making false statements in reports that concealed the suburban department’s failure to meet the requirements of a federally-funded impaired-driving enforcement campaign between 2009 and 2012. The defendant, TIMOTHY VEIT...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man from Phillips County, Kan., has been sentenced to five years in prison on a federal gun charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
