News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 33-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison in a carjacking case as a result of Operation Time Machine in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Lydell B. Sherrer, a former deputy commissioner of the N.J. Department of Corrections (“NJDOC"), was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for attempting to obtain $10,000 from an employee in exchange for securing that person’s continued employment with the department or its private contractor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE - Liang Lin, 34, a resident of Delaware, who owned and operated two shops on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Md., pleaded guilty today to trafficking in counterfeit goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Liang Lin, age 34, a resident of Delaware, who owned and operated two shops on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to trafficking in counterfeit goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Defendant Alleged To Have Distributed A Variety Of Other Prescription Drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Defendants admit to their roles in a Parkersburg crack cocaine distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: A Canton man was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for producing child pornography, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Kept ‘Black Tar’ Heroin And $250,000 Cash At Store.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: An Avon Lake man was charged today with 28 criminal counts for illegally receiving more than $11 million from the St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union, actions which played a role in the credit union’s collapse, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Kenyen Brown, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announces that the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama is collaborating with the GoDaddy.com Bowl, the athletic departments of Arkansas State University and Kent State University, Mt. Hebron Church Ministries...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Janssen), a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J), pleaded guilty today to a one count information charging Janssen with introducing a misbranded drug, Risperdal, into interstate commerce. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Savage sentenced the company, ordering payment of a $344 million fine and forfeiture of $66 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Earlier today in federal court, United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced three individuals in connection to the multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Trevor Cook.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee of Jefferson Bank in Jefferson City, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling more than $540,000 from the bank and another former employer as well as for tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today that Lawrence Maxwell McCoy of Bitely, Michigan was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to 54 months in prison for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Abid Naseer, a Manchester-based United Kingdom resident, was extradited from the United Kingdom to Brooklyn, New York, today to face charges for his alleged role in an international al-Qaeda plot to attack targets in the United States and Europe. Naseer will make his initial appearance on Monday, January...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. woman pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to having embezzled almost $200,000 from a local labor union. GRACE RATHKE, 57, Rockford, pleaded guilty to embezzling monies and funds belonging to Local 32 of the Laborers International Union of North America.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Jan. 2, 2013, James Edward Hall was arrested on a federal criminal complaint for producing child pornography involving a juvenile male victim. Hall had an initial appearance before United States District Judge John A. Jarvey shortly after his arrest. A preliminary hearing and a detention hearing are scheduled in Hall’s case for Friday, January 4, at 2:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with distributing heroin to a 16-year-old minor who died of a suspected heroin overdose.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: For many visitors, winter is their favorite season to enjoy Rocky Mountain National Park. The park is less visited but still very much open and alive with activity. Beautiful backcountry areas can be reached on snowshoes, skis, and at lower elevations - even with hiking boots! Elk, coyotes, deer, snowshoe...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography. Norman Leroy Troxel, 46, of Columbia, was sentenced by U.S...
