News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The press conference scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at 1:00 p.m., by George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, Veronica Hyman-Pillot, Internal Revenue Special Agent in Charge, and Clayton Slay, U.S. Secret Service Resident Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. sentenced Xavier Eccleston, age 35, of Bethesda, Maryland, today to 210 months in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute powder and crack cocaine, and four counts of possession with intent to distribute the drugs and use of a telephone to further the drug activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to manufacture methamphetamine was sentenced Jan. 25, 2013, to eleven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Miami Field Office, announced that Scott A. Blake, 47, of Palm Beach Gardens, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Ricardo Hinojosa, of Roma, has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute in excess of 100 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Robert Jeter, 19, and Davon Watkins, 18, both from Washington, D.C., were each sentenced today to 12 years in prison for carjacking one victim and committing an armed robbery against another victim within a matter of hours, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Daniel Ivan Ashby, age 40, of Thornton, Colorado, was sentenced late last week by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve 90 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, United States Attorney John Walsh and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Yacone announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Public Meeting Scheduled to Seek Public Input.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Kenyen Brown, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announces that defendant Robin Godwin, who previously pled guilty to being involved in the Feb. 17, 2012 robbery of the Bank of Brewton, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and required to pay $124,026.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a psychologist practicing in the Lebanon, Mo., area was sentenced in federal court today for engaging in a $1 million scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 38-year-old El Salvadorian man illegally living in Tyler, Texas, was sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
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By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: MINERAL - The National Park Service released its report on the Reading Fire on Jan. 29, 2013. The Reading Fire started from a lightning strike in the interior of Lassen Volcanic National Park on July 23, 2012. It eventually burned outside the park onto national forest and private land.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 175,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Park Ranger Joni Mae Makuakāne-Jarrell is the new Chief of Interpretation at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, and oversees visitor services and educational and cultural programs at the park. She is the first native Hawaiian to serve in the position.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Steven R. Hinz was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay more than $500,000 in restitution for his role in leading separate tax and mortgage fraud conspiracies, said Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division Kathryn Keneally, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven M. Dettelbach, and Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office, Darryl K. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Two now former TSA officers who conspired and attempted to smuggle drugs through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport security have been sentenced by United States District Judge Charles Pannell. Today, Richard C. Cook II, 28, of Henry County, Georgia was sentenced to 11 years in prison; and on January 4, 2013, Timothy G. Gregory, 26, of DeKalb County, Georgia, was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 41-year-old Tyler, Texas man was sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Kevin Pittman, now using the name “Breona Pittman," age 33, of Chesapeake, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Willie C. Grant, a tax return preparer from Macon, Ga., was sentenced to 60 months in prison by for filing false claims for tax refunds, theft of government money and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. U.S. District Court Chief Judge C. Ashley Royal also ordered Grant to pay over $200,000 in restitution to the IRS.
