News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On Jan. 16, 2013, William Martin Fiorito, Jr., a 45 year old resident of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge John Jarvey to 65 months imprisonment for bank robbery. Judge Jarvey also ordered Fiorito to serve a three year term of supervised...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Sandy Springs, GA: In observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area will join all 398 national parks in waiving entrance fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: For Federal Heroin Trafficking Charges. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Luzerne County man was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge James M. Munley to serve 60 months in prison on the charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Tomas Roque, a reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6, has been arrested following the return of an indictment alleging charges of aiding the possession of a controlled substance and a violation of the Hobbs Act, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced the Committee leadership he intends to appoint for the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - JORDAN ABE CHAVIRA, 22, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot to serve 46 months in prison for unlawful possession of firearms as a prior convicted felon, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. The firearms were purchased at a local gun show.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Four Houston area residents have been sentenced for conspiring to commit mail fraud involving the theft of Sprint cellular phone customer data and telephones, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Frederick Sears, 38, Lakreshia Shana Smith, 28, and Vernon R. Parker Jr., aka...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Child Pornography Video Investigation Snares Two Cobb County Men.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Jan. 16, 2013, Martha Ann Kaczmarczyk, 63, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 20 months in federal prison today by the Honorable Thomas W. Phillips, U.S. District Judge, for fraudulently obtaining disability payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces today that Susan Emily Jones (50, Lutz) pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Jones faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. As part of her plea agreement, Jones has agreed to a money judgment of $824,301.57, representing the proceeds of her criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, MEDINA K. BLANTON, 39, of Hubert, NC, was sentenced to a 1 year and one day in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on the charge of Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. BLANTON was also ordered to make restitution to insurer AFLAC in the amount of $234,295.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE - Eighteen defendants alleged to be part of a large drug trafficking organization operating in Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland; New Jersey; and California, have been charged in connection with distributing large amounts of marijuana, diverted pharmaceuticals, steroids, cocaine and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that ALAN RITTER, a self-employed accountant in Rockland County, New York, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to three years in prison in connection with his operation of an 11-year, $6 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tryn Parker, 40, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of failing to surrender for the service of a sentence, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Joseph Edwards, 38, of Goffstown was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 8 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in Duluth, a 22-year-old man was sentenced for committing the Dec. 30, 2011, armed robbery of Newby’s Market in Bemidji. United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Jason Lee King, no known address, to 132 months in federal prison on one...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.---U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Maurice Ubiles, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., who was convicted of obstructing justice, was sentenced to 22 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement in response to the administration’s recommendations to reduce gun violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Allen, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing money order checks, which had a value of over $1,000, from a woman at Pine Ridge in March 2012.
