News from January 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the committee will conduct its formal organizational meeting for the 113th Congress on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The meeting will include the adoption of Committee Rules and the formal appointment of Subcommittee leadership and member rosters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Erin Todd, 31, of West Palm Beach, Florida was sentenced in federal district court on Friday, January 4, 2013, to 42 months in prison, 5 years supervised release, and ordered to pay a $500 fine and a $100 special assessment fee. Todd was convicted of one count of Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud following a three-day jury trial in September 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: All-In-One store was demolished in Huntington’s Fairfield district in December.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: A Belleville, Illinois, man was sentenced to a prison term in federal district court for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon on January 7, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Evie Mearlene Herrin, 58, and her daughter, Amelia Darci Crew, 30, of Cleveland, Texas, were sentenced in federal court today for the March, 2012 armed bank robbery of the Regions Bank on Highway 49 in Gulfport, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen, and Gulfport Police Chief Alan Weatherford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Batesland man convicted of Assault on a Federal Officer was sentenced on Dec. 11, 2012, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken. William Morrisette, age 23, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day of imprisonment and 2 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $100 to the Victim Assistance Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Donald J. Jones III Traveled To Rhode Island In April 2011 To Engage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Janet Elaine Shirley, 39, of Boise, Idaho, the former owner and operator of All Sunshine, LLC, and Antonio Ricardo Mendoza, 34, also of Boise, an employee, are the latest defendants in Operation Not for Human Consumption to be sentenced over the past several months for offering drug paraphernalia for sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On January 4, 2013, Corey David Hagen, age 46, was sentenced to two months of imprisonment followed by six months of home confinement for committing wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner also sentenced Hagen to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $150,000 in restitution to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - John Buster Jones, 24, of Biloxi, was sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for making a false statement to a firearms dealer to purchase a firearm, U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Monday, January 7, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Paul G. Fox, 48, of Franklin, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 144 months in prison for possession of more than 600 images of child...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Perry Roark, a/k/a Rock, “Pops," “Slim," “Saho the Ghost," age 42, today to life in prison for conspiracy to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as the Dead Man Incorporated (DMI). Roark has been the “Supreme Commander"...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Last week, a federal judge sentenced David Deloss Washburn, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., to a 200-month term of imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges. Washburn’s sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Thomas G. Atteberry, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Superintendent Susan Boudreau announced today the release of a prospectus soliciting proposals for the Glacier Bay Lodge concession operation in Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jackson Doggette, 22, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for three armed robberies committed between August and October 2011. Doggette and co-defendant Marvin Gibson, 39, also of Philadelphia, brandished a handgun while robbing the Metro PCS store, located at 3613...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough today sentenced Anthony L. Ferguson, 25, to serve 235 months (19 years, 7 months) in federal prison and to remain on supervised release for life following his release from prison. Ferguson has been detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest in March 2012, along with co-defendant Laura J. Sigler, 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has collected more than $1.7 billion in criminal and civil actions and asset forfeitures over the past three fiscal years, and has reached agreements in two cases that are expected to generate another $536.5 million in the current fiscal year, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Hutchinson man with a felony conviction record including involuntary manslaughter has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: AGOURA HILLS, Calif. - The National Park Service will co-host a Winter Sky Star Party from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 19 at Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills.
