News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wanblee man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2013 by Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken. Royce Gone, age 32, was sentenced to time served, 2 years' supervised release, and a $100 special assessment to the Victims' Assistance Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Benjamin Michael Smith, a resident of Coffee County, Alabama, was sentenced to forty months in federal prison for federal felony charges for bank robbery and attempted bank robbery, United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, Arnoldo Ayala Guevara Cazarez, 49, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, to serve 235 months in federal prison for his leadership role in trafficking in methamphetamine. Guevara pleaded guilty on June 5, 2012 to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that today in Scranton Senior United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced Anthony Orlando Gibbs, age 37, formerly of Michigan, to 15 months’ imprisonment for bribing a correctional officer at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan to smuggle contraband into the prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Thirty-two Chicago area defendants have been charged separately with fraudulently obtaining thousands of dollars each in unemployment benefits from the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES), federal law enforcement officials announced today. In each case, the defendants allegedly...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced the subcommittee Ranking Members for the Committee for the 113th Congress and announced the Democratic membership of the Committee. The Committee officially organized for the 113th Congress this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Both Sentenced to Probation and Ordered to Pay $1,495.20 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States District Judge Susan Bucklew today sentenced James Isaac Boyd (40, St. Petersburg) to 9 years in federal prison for conspiring to commit student loan fraud, committing student loan fraud, and aggravated identity theft. In addition, he was ordered to pay restitution to the Department of Education in the amount of $464,269.00, and to forfeit computers and cellphones used in the commission of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a sex offender from Joplin, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography. David Wayne Morgan, 56, of Joplin, pleaded guilty before U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Lincoln E. Son, 38, of Atlanta, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Orinda D. Evans, to serve 16 years, 8 months in federal prison on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States aboard international commercial flights.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Ryan Walker Grant, 34, Kennedale, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Terry Means to 120 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in September 2012 to one count of murder-for-hire, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. Grant has been in custody since his arrest on April 9, 2012, on a related charge outlined in a criminal complaint filed the previous day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Max Spatig, 71, of Rexburg, Idaho, the owner of MS Enterprises, pleaded not guilty in federal court today to charges that he knowingly stored and disposed of hazardous waste on his property, a violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Spatig was charged in a one count indictment filed in United States District Court in Pocatello on Dec. 11, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: On Jan. 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court delivered its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, affirming the constitutional protection right of women to determine their own personal health care choices without undue government influence. Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued this statement to mark the historic anniversary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted James S. Allen, 36, of New Baltimore, MI, on 18 counts of cyberstalking and five counts of production of child pornography. The production of child pornography charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine for each count. The cyberstalking charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Contact: Matt Dennis 202-225-6506. Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today announced the Democratic members who will serve on the Committee in the 113th Congress and the makeup of the 12 Appropriations subcommittees. The selections were ratified...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: In order to provide a more centralized system on tracking permits in case of emergencies and also to allow for 24 hour availability, visitors can purchase their backcountry permits and/or wild hog hunting permits at one of our visitor centers or online at.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Meetings and Webinars Designed to Provide Information and Elicit Feedback from Public on Two Very Important Planning Efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Marlies...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
Release: The House Agriculture Committee met today to formally organize and adopt the Committee's rules for the 113th Congress. Ranking Member Peterson outlined the issues before the Committee and introduced the new Democratic members.
