News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Mercer County man pleaded guilty on Jan. 29 in federal court to distribution of hydromorphone. Trusby Hubbard also known as “Red," 34, of Bluefield, Mercer County, W.Va., admitted that on Aug. 16, 2012, he sold two hydromorphone pills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Mark Olkowski, 62, of North Wildwood, NJ, a business partner in K & O Sports, was indicted today on tax charges, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. K&O sports, on Moyamensing Avenue, is a South Philadelphia distributor of t-shirts and other clothing items for labor unions, municipalities, and political candidates.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Researchers at The Ohio State University (OSU) have successfully completed more than 200 hours of continuous operation of their patented Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL) technology - a one-step process to produce both electric power and high-purity carbon dioxide (CO2). The test, led by OSU Professor Liang-Shih Fan, represents the longest integrated operation of chemical looping technology anywhere in the world to date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 37-year-old Colorado man was sentenced for scheming investors out of more than $7 million. United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced Evan Matthew Flaxman, of Silverthorne, Colorado, to 52 months in prison on one count of mail fraud in connection to the crime. Flaxman was charged on June 14, 2012, and pleaded guilty on July 25, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Jan. 28, 2013, Kenneth Brian Cobb, 46, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver to five years supervised probation with eight months of weekend incarceration and was ordered to pay $32,000 in restitution. Cobb pleaded guilty on Sept. 10, 2012, to theft of government property and a violation of the Endangered Species Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Former Postal Service Employee Indicted for Fraud in Travel Expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A jury convicted a Compton, Calif., man of manufacturing a controlled substance by cultivation in connection with a 2012 marijuana grow on U.S. Forest Service land in Iron County following a three-day trial late last week in U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold five open house meetings across the area beginning Tuesday to answer questions about a new Draft Resource Management Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Kenneth Santodomingo, aka “Juan Joel Pagan," 22, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft. It is anticipated that he will make his first appearance in federal court in Dallas this afternoon at 2:00 p.m., before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney Williams J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Anthony F. Amato, Jr., 40, of Tonawanda, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to three years in prison and five years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Tulsa - United States Attorney Danny C. Williams, Sr. announced today the unsealing of an indictment with charges against four men and one woman for plotting to interfere with a federal witness. Christopher Aaron Charlton (age 30), Erin Elizabeth Mackool (age 26), William Lucas Mayberry (age 26), Charles...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Scottie Alice Johnson of Montgomery with a conspiracy to commit theft of public funds and to defraud the IRS, announced George L. Beck, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Technology that will allow better evaluation of pork tenderness and color stability in beef and pork is among the new nutrition and health findings noted in the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs (FNRB) and its Spanish-language edition (Informe de investigaciones de alimentos y nutrici€¢n).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced that three individuals were charged with being in the United States illegally in separate cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA B Kimberly Watson, 32, Malcolm Lipscomb, 35, Shavone Ricketts, 31, and Alfretta Jones, 37, all of Tallahassee, have been indicted for conspiracy to file false claims for more than $80,000 in federal tax refunds. The indictment was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Osterburg, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 36 months imprisonment, 10 years supervised release, and required to register as a sex offender on his conviction of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Three Dallas residents, Jorge Armando Flores, 45, his wife Roxana Flores, 43, and her son, Julio C. Funes-Alas, 27, were arrested by U.S. Postal Inspectors this morning in Amityville, New York, on conspiracy and mail fraud charges outlined in a 19-count indictment returned by a federal grand...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Largest Heroin Seizure In Rhode Island Valued At Nearly $4.5 Million Dollars.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: In celebration of the park's 98th birthday on Jan. 26, Rocky Mountain National Park and Rocky Mountain Nature Association are pleased to announce the winning logo for the park's upcoming 100th Anniversary celebration. The designer is Carol Welker, a graphic artist based out of Dallas, Texas.
