News from July 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Trail Ridge Road will be closed for through travel on Tuesday, July 23, from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. The road will be closed at the Bowen/Baker Trailhead which is located just south of Timber Creek Campground on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park. A culvert will be replaced during the closure of the road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alfonso Lezine, 40, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 15 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing four Albuquerque-area businesses and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Thomas...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday evening Joseph Joel Morales-Serrano entered a straight plea and was sentenced to time-served and three years of supervised release for his violation of 18 U.S.C. section 875(c), a Class D felony, which is Threatening Interstate Communications, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Michael Dale Irwin, age 27, of Rising Sun, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Gang Wreaked Havoc in Gwinnett and DeKalb Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Michael Leroy Schonlau, age 37, of Clifton, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia K. Krieger to serve 15 months for willfully making a threat and maliciously conveying false information, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney John...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Project Ceasefire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm. Quardale M. Lewis, 33, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man was sentenced today in connection with his use of stolen credit card numbers to purchase more than $64,000 in cigarettes and other items in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Emerson Winfield Begolly, 22, of New Bethlehem, Penn., was sentenced today in Pittsburgh to 102 months in prison for soliciting others to engage in acts of terrorism within the United States and for using a firearm during and in relation to an assault on FBI agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: LONDON, KY - A federal judge imposed a fine and ordered a period of probation for a Harlan County underground mining company, which violated mandatory safety and health standards established by the Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, announced that defendant Betty Cole, 34, of Miami...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Andrew C. Henley, a 25-year old, Illinois, man was sentenced on July 15, 2013, in federal district court in East St. Louis, Illinois, on one count of failure to register as a sex offender, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Henley was sentenced to 34 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Artak Medjbarian of Sherman Oaks, California pled guilty to conspiring with others to attempt to steal $163,000 worth of beef products from a Nebraska Beef facility in Omaha, Nebraska. Medjbarian, age 33, was charged in May 2012 by a federal grand...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: The Grand Jury today returned an indictment against three individuals for their involvement in a spree of armed robberies of commercial businesses in and around the Bay Area and the subsequent attempted cover-up of those robberies, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Appearances for July 16, 2013. U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced that on May 23, 2013, Tahlene Shaw Serawop, a 25-year-old Ute Tribal Member, was charged in an indictment with one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, and Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury has returned a seven-count indictment charging Carlos Jonathan Cruz, 30, the owner of Hobbs Satellite Company Guns & Ammo, and his parents, Carlos Carlon Cruz, 59, and Norma M. Cruz, 56, with violations of the federal firearms laws. The three defendants were arraigned on the indictment today in Las Cruces federal court and entered not guilty pleas. They were released under pretrial supervision pending trial of the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two Watertown, South Dakota, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their involvement in a drug conspiracy that is part of Operation Black Widow.
By State Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released this statement on the postponement of Thursday’s hearing to examine accountability within the State Department following the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, Anatoly Kraiter, 35, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for his role as a money launderer for a $77 million Medicare fraud scheme. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon of the Eastern District of New York sentenced Kraiter to three years of supervised release and ordered him to forfeit $100,000. Kraiter’s surrender date is Sept. 16, 2013.
