News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin man charged with Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on January 4, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann. Rodney Lyman Reeds, age 44, was sentenced to 41 months in custody, 3 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Starks admitted to stealing more than $300,000 from the Charleston-based organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: To Date, Five Defendants Have Pled Guilty in Scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Vegetated drainage ditches can help capture pesticide and nutrient loads in field runoff, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists report. These ditches-as common in the country as the fields they drain-give farmers a low-cost alternative for managing agricultural pollutants and protecting natural resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Washington, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating the Hobbs Act, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is revising U.S. Standards for Grades of Eggplant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Stephen Christopher Pyle, age 27, of Albion, Pennsylvania, entered a guilty plea Thursday in U.S. District Court in Allentown to a two-count felony criminal information charging him with threatening to murder a federal law enforcement official and assaulting a federal employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 47-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced James Nowicki, age 29, of Baltimore, today to five months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, with five months of the supervised released to be served as home detention, for conspiring to deprive a person of civil...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway sentenced Roberto J. Irizarry-Colon (28, Chuluota) yesterday to 6 ½ years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Irizarry-Colon to forfeit the computers and thumb drives that he used to possess the child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin man charged with Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Jan. 3, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann. Roland Joseph Thundershield, age 39, was sentenced to 37 months in custody, 3 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On January 4, 2013, Osvaldo Montes Olarte, age 36, was sentenced to 77 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the United States and for failing to register as a sex offender, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge John A. Jarvey also sentenced Olarte to three years of supervised release for the immigration offense and seven years of supervised release for his failure to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jess Porras, age 52, of McLaughlin, appeared before U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann on Jan. 2, 2013, and pled guilty to Count I of an Indictment that charged him with being a Felon In Possession of a Firearm. The maximum penalty upon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Marcos Sanchez Hernandez, also known as “Marquito," 37, an illegal alien from Mexico who lived in Riverdale, Md., was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for transporting more than 100 women from other states to engage in commercial sex in Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Ten face lengthy sentences for federal offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: ODESSA, Texas - Today in Midland, 68-year-old Jimmy Wayne Wright, former owner of B&L Bookstore in Odessa, was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute Methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or more commonly referred to as “bath salts," announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VLADIMIR ZDOROVENIN, a Russian national, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to three years in prison in connection with a series of sophisticated international cyber crimes. ZDOROVENIN, who was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former bookkeeper of a law firm based in Ocean County, N.J., was sentenced to 21 months for defrauding her former employer by stealing more than $500,000 from the firm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Within hours of federal authorities appealing to the public for help in a child pornography case with ties to the Los Angeles area, a woman charged as “Jane Doe" has been arrested outside her apartment complex in the San Fernando Valley.
