News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Brian Anthony Bjork, 43, of Missouri City, has pleaded guilty in connection with an investment scam that defrauded nearly a dozen investors of more than $1 million, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. While Bjork pleaded to just one count of wire fraud this afternoon before United States District Judge Gray Miller, he admitted all of his fraudulent conduct during his plea hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Westmoreland County pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of threatening to murder, intimidate, interfere or retaliate against a Federal Official and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former South Plainfield, N.J., police captain is charged with the sexual exploitation of a minor female after enticing the girl to live-stream sexually explicit acts via the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: February 17 marks the 5th anniversary of Kosova’s independence, and the people of Kosova have a great deal of which they can be proud. In only five years as an independent state, Kosova has been recognized by almost 100 countries, it is a member of the World Bank, IMF, and EBRD. Kosova’s sovereignty...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist and his colleague at Cornell University have developed a new tool for studying how roots take shape in the soil.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Derek Yabeny, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gallup, N.M., pled guilty this morning to a federal assault charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the availability of a Data Summary Report of enhanced characterization fieldwork conducted in August 2012 at the Riverton, Wyoming, Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Donte Wise, age 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, in connection with the planned robbery of a drug dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former South Plainfield, N.J., police captain is charged with the sexual exploitation of a minor female after enticing the girl to live-stream sexually explicit acts via the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Jean Brown, age 43, of Jamaica in connection with a conspiracy to distribute marijuana as one of the leaders of the Brown Organization, a criminal organization whose members distributed narcotics primarily in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona and Jamaica. Co-defendant Gabriel Campa-Mayen, age 45, of Tijuana, Mexico, was acquitted of all charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former South Plainfield, N.J., police captain is charged with the sexual exploitation of a minor female after enticing the girl to live-stream sexually explicit acts via the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - Roberto Aguilar-Ramirez, 51, of Parker, Ariz., pleaded guilty in federal district court in Phoenix on Feb. 19, 2013, to abusive sexual contact with a minor. The minor victim was a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes and the acts occurred on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announced today the return of an indictment charging Denny Junior Jenkins (41, Live Oak) with failing to register as sex offender in the State of Florida after traveling from South Carolina. Jenkins faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. An arraignment and detention hearing are scheduled for Feb. 22, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. before United States Magistrate Judge Monte C. Richardson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a three-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez, a federal jury found Brandon Alton Conley, 31, of Arroyo Grande, guilty of cultivating at least 100 marijuana plants and of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, Drug Enforcement Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Recruited Women and Girls Online Into a Bondage and Sadistic Lifestyle; Took the 15 Year Old Girl from Her Home and Kept Her Confined.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - The former Executive Director of the Chelsea Housing Authority was convicted today of falsely reporting his salary in annual budgets required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Feb. 19, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, the following individual was arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that Timothy Ryan Bodkin, age 39, a former Lieutenant with the Benton Fire Department, made his initial appearance today before United States Magistrate J. Thomas Ray on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography. Bodkin pled not guilty. He is not detained.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Storytelling Aboard 19th Century Sailing Ship Celebrates Lunar New Year of the Water Snake.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ-1:00pm Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 a free ranger program will offer another unique way to experience the park with a photo walk for beginning and intermediate photographers.
