News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Wallington, New Jersey, has been sentenced in federal court to 262 months imprisonment (22 years, 10 months), to be followed by a 10-year term of supervised release, on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Clarion County has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months imprisonment followed by 10 years supervised release on his conviction of possessing child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Tracy, California man was indicted by a federal grand jury for selling marijuana in Rapid City and for possessing a.357 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver with the serial number etched off.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Addison Possessed $2.5 Million Worth Of Counterfeit Money Orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Junior Josephson, 18, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a 20-month prison term for his role in a robbery last fall of an acquaintance in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Feb. 15, 2013, Clifford Arthur Ellis, age 28, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on the charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in relation to drug trafficking, announced United States...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) today reintroduced legislation to close a special tax loophole for oil companies that import tar sands oil into the United States. In May 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a ruling that tar sands oil was not crude oil...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Brian T. Marr, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service Little Rock Field Office, announced the waiver of Indictment and pleas of guilty by Christopher Jackson, age 38, of Alexander...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - On Feb. 15, 2013, a resident of Braddock, Pa., was sentenced in federal court to one year and one day imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of failing to register as a convicted sex offender, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Gene Quarles, 47, of Spotsylvania, Va., pleaded guilty late yesterday to receiving thousands of dollars in bribes to use his position as a purchasing specialist for the United States Postal Service to obtain and facilitate contracts for a Maryland-based information technology firm.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Following a briefing today from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta on the status of the agency’s ongoing review related to the Boeing Dreamliner battery incidents, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Committee Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV), Subcommittee on Aviation Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA) released the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: NEWARK., N.J, - An Essex County man was sentenced today to 118 months in prison for his role in an armed carjacking in Elizabeth, N.J., on Jan. 25, 2011, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Phyllis Bradford, 20, and Andre Craig, 33, both of St. Louis, MO, were sentenced today in United States District Court for their respective roles in a fraudulent tax scheme, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: The deadline for submitting a proposal for the concession contract to provide lodging, food and beverage, retail and other visitor services at Glacier National Park has been extended to April 2, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted David Frederick, 37, Charenton, La., Thursday on four counts for assaulting three people, two of which were Chitimacha tribal police officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Feb. 15, 2013, Micah David Meloccaro, age 22, of Woodbine, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on the charge of unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Feb. 15, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, IJAZ KHAN SINDHU, a 33-year-old resident of Othello Washington, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Sentencing has been set for May 24, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - Nine people were charged with fraudulently collecting money and benefits from federal and state assistance programs, for more than a decade in some cases.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Sandy Springs: Visitors to Sope Creek and the popular fitness trail loop at Cochran Shoals between Interstate North and Columns Drive in the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (CRNRA) may notice changes in the coming weeks as park staff prepares to implement a special regulation allowing expanded bicycle access on these trails.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Richard L. Walker, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations, announced the unsealing of a 17-count indictment and the arrests of defendants Darryl Brice Payne, a/k/a Darryl “Mike D," Payne, 47, of Sunrise, and Tianni Latrice Brown, f/k/a Tianni Latrice Wade, 31, of Lauderhill, Florida.
