News from January 2013
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Prime Tropical Inc., of Los Angeles, Calif., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 16, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, TANYA MARIE NAVA, a 38-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. NAVA was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Defendant With 1991 Texas Conviction Possessed More Than 30,000 Images Of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Greg Williams, 44, of Lafayette, La., an Assistant District Attorney for the 15th Judicial District, pled guilty to a one- count Bill of Information charging Williams with Conspiracy to Commit Bribery. His secretary, Denease...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Community and technical college students in West Virginia will learn about the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of clean energy plants utilizing unique simulator based training in a new agreement signed with the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Mickell Close, 31, of Quincy, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of using minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of the conduct. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: BOISE - David Jay Wheeler, 70, of Homedale, Idaho, formerly of Declo, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boise to possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America will observe Black History Month with a special program by University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Dr. Kenneth Winkle on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 at 1 p.m. at the Education Center. He will be speaking about the impacts of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, continuing the program he gave at the monument on Dec. 30, 2012 on the Emancipation Proclamation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John A. Cruz, 26, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin. Cruz was arrested along with 17 others in August of 2010 for narcotics trafficking. The drug conspiracy charge against Cruz carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Rickey Groves, a/k/a Rickey Hughes, 29, of Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced today to 1424 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes, Jr., announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: “Operation Dark Night" results in the dismantling of an alleged multi-state sex trafficking and prostitution ring, and the rescuing of several women allegedly forced into prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: WHEATON, Ill. - DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Jack Riley announced today that charges have been filed against three Schaumburg police officers accused of operating a drug ring in Cook and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Timothy Gormley, 52, of North Wales, PA, was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for five counts of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Gormley was employed by Amplifier Research, in Souderton, Pennsylvania, a manufacturer and supplier of microwave amplifiers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Macon, Ga., returned an indictment charging Kimberly Michelle Banks, a resident of Cordele, Ga., with crimes involving the use of stolen identities on false federal income tax returns in order to obtain refunds to which Banks was not entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Juan Alvizures Oliva, age 30, of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for production and possession of child pornography. Oliva will be required to register as a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Uniontown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 150 months (12 ½ years) incarceration and six years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: In Eagle Pass, Texas this morning, Maverick County Precinct Four Commissioner Cesar Flores, age 46 of Eagle Pass, Texas, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a federal grand jury in Del Rio indicted him this week in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christopher H. Monfort, 40, of East Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa, to manufacturing 50 or more marijuana plants. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: CLEVELAND - A federal grand jury has indicted Steven E. Hillman, 67, of Dublin, Ohio, alleging that he conspired with the owner of three pain clinics in Ohio to illegally divert prescription drugs outside the scope of legitimate medical practice and launder proceeds of the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: In Midland, 59-year-old Odessa physician Barrett Doyle Whitefield, faces a mandatory minimum ten-year federal prison term after pleading guilty this morning to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distribute controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit.
