News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH- United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today WILLIS SARVIS, 34, was convicted by a jury of Distrbution of PCP in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1), and Using and Carrying a Firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Kimberly A. Bivens, age 46, was sentenced today in Omaha by Chief United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp to 37 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. Ms. Bivens had previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Chris Koster, Missouri Attorney General, announced that an Excelsior Springs, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today on charges related to several investment schemes in which at least a dozen victims lost more than $3.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Two Brazilian nationals pleaded guilty today in Miami to smuggling undocumented migrants to the United States for profit, announced U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 47-year-old St. Paul man was indicted in connection with the Dec. 13, 2012, armed robbery of the US Bank branch located at 711 Cleveland Avenue South in St. Paul. David Judin Greer was specifically charged with one count of armed bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, Jan. 16, 2013- Nature is often an inspiration for artist of all ages. Local students can celebrate such creativity through the Youth Arts in the Parks art contest, part of New River Gorge Wildflower Weekend (April 19 - 21). The art work of contest finalists will be showcased...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Joshua Roland Fuller Gilley, 26, of Enterprise, Alabama, and Westly Robert Rogers, 25, of Ozark, Alabama, and Melissa Lynn Mione McGee, 37, of Daleville, Alabama have all been sentenced after pleading guilty to carjacking an Isuzu Rodeo in which three children, ages, 2 ½ years, 1 ½ years, and 2 months old were riding in the backseat; and to kidnapping those same three young children, announced U.S. Attorney, George L. Beck, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: - Proceeds from sale of house will go toward restitution for the Crusade for Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Dallas Tyler Thompson, 31, of Boise, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Alcides Roman, age 53, of Ocoee, Florida, was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison and 3 years supervised release for defrauding $340,000 from individuals in Louisiana seeking business loans. The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Tom Stagg. Roman was also ordered to pay $340,000 to his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: A criminal indictment was filed in U.S. District Court today charging a Cleveland man with being a felon in possession of ammunition, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 39-year-old Faribault man pleaded guilty to writing 127 fraudulent checks to himself. Ronald Leo Schaeffer pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud in connection to the crime. Schaeffer was charged on December 6, 2012, and entered his plea before United States District Court Judge David S. Doty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Randell Lamont Woods, 24, of Hampton, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 66months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Earlier today, Valentino Sanchez, 33, a member and resident of San Felipe Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty to two federal assault charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a 14-count indictment against Rocky Houston, 52, charging him with being a felon in possession of firearms. A one-count indictment was also returned again Leon Houston, 54, for possession of firearms while being an unlawful user of controlled substances.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced that the Committee will convene Tuesday, January 22 at 12:30 pm for an organizational meeting where committee rules for the 113th Congress will be approved. These rules contain no significant revisions from the committee’s rules in the previous Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Moore, 45, of Chadds Ford, PA, pleaded guilty today to infringing copyrighted work related to broadcasts of hockey games. Moore admitted that he copied and sold, over the internet, copyrighted recordings of hockey games, parts of hockey games, and other hockey-related material between May 15, 2006 and Nov. 10, 2006. He also admitted to copyright infringement between 2007 and 2010 as well.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA -- Timothy J. Heaphy, United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, and William Killian, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, held a ceremony yesterday, in Wise, Virginia, to recognize the contributions of the Southwest Virginia Drug Task Force and its officers, in the investigation of the Rodney Mitchell Drug Trafficking Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Ronald Wayne Carr, 38, of Newport News, Va., has been indicted by a federal grand jury accused of participating in twenty-eight armed robberies in Hampton, Newport News and York County. Prior to Carr’s arrest on Dec. 27, 2012, he was known as the “fake beard" robber.
