News from January 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office will begin hazardous fuels reduction projects throughout Fremont County. The projects include burning piles of brush and timber that the BLM has removed from public lands to reduce the risk of wildfire. These pile burns will occur mid-January through mid-March when weather and fuels conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Men Fought Over Drugs. Two Lummi Nation members who fought with a third Tribal member, with one of them stabbing him to death, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to prison terms for involuntary manslaughter, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. JOHNATHAN CASEY PHAIR, 25, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Yonathan Melaku, 24, of Alexandria, Va., was sentenced today to 25 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for damaging property and firearm violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in Northern Virginia between October and November 2010 and attempting to injure veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -- The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: MICHAEL PAGE, age 36, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, was charged today in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack"), announced United States Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Bobby Gene and Gretta York of Jamestown, Tennessee, were awarded a ten year contract to run the Bandy Creek Stable and Camp Store operations. The stables will continue to be open all year and the camp store will be open March through November annually. The stables will include horse/llama/mule/donkey...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island woman was convicted today of embezzling more than $375,000 from the accounts of Citizens Bank customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Reco Coates, 22, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was sentenced today to eight years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of a man following a robbery in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Cliff Marshall, Jr., age 35, of White Horse, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on January 9, 2013, and pled guilty to an indictment that charged him with Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 10 years' imprisonment, a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska B U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a woman from Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in federal court in Anchorage for her role in an Anchorage drug distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Diagnostic Systems, Inc. d/b/a Open MRI of Savannah; Southeast Georgia Open MRI d/b/a Open MRI at Fountain Lake, and Open MRI of Douglas, have agreed to pay the United States $1,273,126 to settle allegations that those facilities submitted false claims to Medicare, Georgia Medicaid, TRICARE...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: CONCORD - Douglas McCullom, 52, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of fraudulently obtaining controlled substances, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Jackson, TN - Kirby Ross, 20, of Jackson, TN, and Demario Harris, 29, of Jackson, TN, were each indicted by a federal grand jury for firearms related charges, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: TRAVIS HUDSON, age 29; RODERICK WIGGINS, age 22; SHAYNE LEBLANC, age 40, all residents of Harvey, Louisiana; as well as TOREY RICHARDSON, age 21, a resident of Marrero, Louisiana; and AKAI SULLIVAN, age 27, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, all pled guilty in federal court yesterday before U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Due to Snowstorm. Colorado National Monument will Temporarily Close. The Upper Section of Rim Rock Drive at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 Colorado National Monument will temporarily close the upper section of Rim Rock Drive from DS Road to Independence Monument Overlook to all traffic due to hazardous...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Sharon Anderson, 49, of Oakland, Tennessee, has been charged in a one-count indictment charging bank fraud, announced United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Edward L. Stanton III. Anderson, an attorney with offices in Cordova, was arrested this morning and is expected to be released this afternoon on bond after an appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Diane K. Vescovo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The former president and six other officers of First National Bank of Savannah were indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of defrauding First National Bank and other banks out of millions of dollars. The long-running scheme allegedly contributed to the failure of First National Bank in 2010, which will cost the FDIC deposit-insurance fund over $90 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - The former chief information officer of a Chicago-based international law firm who was charged previously, and the president of a company that provided contract technology workers who was charged for the first time and arrested today, were indicted for allegedly engaging in a fraudulent billing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Pistol Purchased on Nov. 17, 2012, Allegedly Recovered on Nov. 30, 2012 During Arrest of Suspected Narcotics Trafficker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, United States District Judge sentenced 31-year-old Edward Sandoval to 41 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for purchasing approximately 40,000 rounds of ammunition to be smuggled into the Republic of Mexico, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations Acting Deputy Special Agent in Charge Monica Mapel.
