News from February 2013
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Zayd Allebban, former Wayne County Director of Enterprise Applications, the office that does software application development for Wayne County, was found guilty today by a federal jury in Detroit on charges of falsifying documents with the intent to obstruct justice, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Glacier National Park and the Glacier Institute are accepting applications for their second climate change teacher workshop to be held June 24-27 at the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Jason Lloyd Schaber, 40, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded not guilty today to charges of child exploitation, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. A trial is set for April 23, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Juan Antonio Villarreal, 53, of Houston, has entered a plea of guilty to both distribution and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Stanley Tatum To Serve 41 Months In Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Simon Ndongo of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to eighteen (18) months in Federal prison and three years supervised release on his conviction of charges of falsification of documents in relation to a bankruptcy case and tax perjury. Ndongo, a former City...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for robbing an Overland Park bank, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska B U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that James Michael Wells, 61, of Kodiak was indicted by a federal grand jury for the murders of U.S. Coast Guard Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle. Belisle, who was working...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The third of nine defendants charged in connection with a large marijuana cultivation operation in Alpaugh, was sentenced today to two years and six months in prison, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: GRAND FORKS - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 19, 2013, Fulton Merrick, Jr., Garrick Mini, and Rayone Sherman, each pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to a charge of distribution of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Stephen Ray Cook, 40, of Trenton, TN, was sentenced on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, to 360 months in federal prison for his role in masterminding a drug distribution ring that operated across the eastern United States, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that Andrew Thurman Melton, age 66, of Roland, Arkansas, made his initial appearance before United States Magistrate Judge J. Thomas Ray this morning on 12 counts of wire fraud. Melton pled not guilty. Melton is not detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Maricella Garza, 37, of Kingsville, has been arrested following the return of an indictment charging her with embezzling funds from the Kingsville Community Federal Credit Union, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today released findings from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) second tranche of Richard Windsor emails. The release shows that acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe used a private email ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Australian National living in Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to 21 months incarceration, plus three years supervised release and deportation following service of his sentence on his conviction of wire and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Vincent Lee was sentenced yesterday to 96 months in prison, and ordered to pay $2,400 in restitution for possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: A single photon may not seem like much of a catch. But detecting photons one-by-one with near-perfect reliability is formidably difficult. It is also an extremely important research goal, not only in fiber-based telecommunications, but in numerous other fields from quantum information science and data-encryption to medical imaging, light detection and ranging, DNA sequencing, astrophysics, and materials science.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) released the following statement today regarding the looming sequester cuts and the need for Congress to work together to prevent the across-the-board cuts and lasting economic damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Christopher Robin Garlin, 19, of Clark Fork, Idaho, was sentenced today to 11 months in prison for theft of firearms from a licensed dealer’s inventory, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Garlin to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term and pay $8,116.25 in restitution.
