News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Nacogdoches man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. The sentencing hearing was held before U.S. District Judge Ron Clark.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a one-count information was filed charging Richard D. Gooding, age 38, of Youngstown, Ohio, with bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Twenty-one year old Kaitlin Kenney of Englewood, Colorado remains missing in Grand Canyon National Park; and an extensive search by the National Park Service has turned up no additional clues as to her whereabouts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Porcupine man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly assaulting another man at Porcupine on Aug. 17, 2011.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: "We in North Carolina, remembering Hurricanes Fran and Floyd, know how important it is for Congress to extend itself in such a time of need.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Patrick Jason Thomas (32, Kissimmee) to 2 and one-half years in federal prison for reproducing and distributing DVDs containing copyrighted movies. The court also ordered Thomas to forfeit approximately 10,000 pirated DVDs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Taunton man was charged today in federal court with stealing mail.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the subcommittee Ranking Members, and welcomed returning and new Democratic members to the Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Late last night, House Republicans dealt another blow to New England fishermen and to fishing communities around the country, rejecting all amendments offered to a Sandy relief bill that would have provided disaster funding for fishermen. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the Dean of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of distribution of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Brothers admit distributing a total of more than 7,000 prescription pain pills during conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lebanon, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to using the Internet to groom and entice a minor girl into illegal sexual conduct that led to years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Jupiter, Fla., has been sentenced in federal court to seven years and three months incarceration on his conviction of one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Robert M. Peto, a former member of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, was sentenced to more than four years in prison today after previously pleading guilty to violating the Hobbs Act, law enforcement officials said today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Legislation authored by U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, to solidify Indian Country’s tribal sovereignty during major disasters has been approved as part of one of the first acts of the new Congress. Rahall’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Casey Dean Hoefert, age 33, of Sioux Falls, appeared before U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier on Jan. 15, 2013, and pled guilty to an indictment that charged him with conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years and a maximum penalty of life in prison, and/or a $10 million fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Timothy W. Cannon, 63, the former director of human resources at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), pleaded guilty today to a charge of conflict of interest for negotiating employment with a polling and consulting services company that had a multimillion-dollar contract with FEMA, supervised by Cannon.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement about findings released today by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showing that average global temperatures for 2012 were among the ten warmest on record.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) made the following statement today after the outgoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson released a portion of her emails that have been under scrutiny for using a secondary email alias, "Richard Windsor." The EPA has also redacted names in the emails using a Freedom of Information Act exemption that does not apply to the released emails.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Jan. 14, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, HENRY LOPEZ, a 50-year-old resident of Los Angeles, California, and APRIL ANN TYSON, a 29-year-old resident of Seattle, Washington, appeared...
