News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Stephen Easterling, 28, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged by Information today with one count of Hobbs Act Robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, the defendant attempted to rob K/V Jewelers, Inc., trading as Main Line Jewelers, located at 7553 Haverford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Feb. 1, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Joseph Millard, 50, of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced in the United States District Court to 121 months in prison for Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Millard was also ordered to...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area announces a 45-minute ranger-led interpretive program at Blue Heron Campground about the wild hog. Come learn how this domesticated free-roaming animal of centuries past got here, some bits of history about Charit Creek Lodge (formerly known as "the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for importing and selling counterfeit merchandise, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy hosted a Commercial-Scale Renewable Energy Project Development and Finance Workshop July 9-11 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Twenty participants from 13 Tribes took part in this incredible training opportunity for tribal leaders and staff to learn about the process and potential pitfalls of developing renewable energy projects in Indian Country.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a memo ahead of Thursday’s Committee hearing on accusations that the White House and Obama Administration used the IRS as a political tool to target the President’s political enemies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, DAVID L. STURGEON, 63, from Cordell, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joe Heaton to serve 12 months and one day in federal prison for making false statements to defraud the Bank of Cordell, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -- Larry Barnette Hill, 58, of Meadville, Mississippi, was sentenced in federal court today to 78 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for money laundering and bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. Hill was also ordered to pay $1,243,703 in restitution to People’s Bank of the South.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly sexually abusing and intimidating members of his family between 2006 and 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Daniel S. Prieto, age 33, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 100 months (over 8 years) in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, United States Attorney John Walsh and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a cemetery monument business in north suburban Skokie was sentenced today to a year and a day in federal prison for evading more than $1 million in federal taxes on more than $3.3 million in income, including interest on millions of dollars he held in a secret offshore financial...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Research about the connections between the brain, cortisol, and weight loss are among the new nutrition and health findings noted in the most recent issue of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs and its Spanish-language edition (Informe de investigaciones de alimentos y nutrición).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: LONDON, KY - Former officials from an underground coal mine operation in Harlan County, KY., were sentenced today for violating mine safety standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, N.J., school bus driver was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for distributing images of child sexual abuse over the internet through his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Blanca Ceballos (49, Orlando) yesterday to three years in federal prison for conspiring with others to promote a prostitution ring in Polk County. Ceballos pleaded guilty on November 7, 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Following the jury’s verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former branch manager at Landmark National Bank in Garden City, Kan., has been charged with embezzling more than $99,999 from the bank, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding has pled guilty to the charges and was sentenced on July 12, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - - The Drug Enforcement Administration congratulates the Government of Mexico on the arrest of Miguel Trevino Morales. Trevino Morales, the head of the notoriously violent and vicious Los Zetas cartel, has been a wanted man for years. His ruthless leadership has now come to an end.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Deborah Beardsley, age 50, of Lower Brule, South Dakota, pled guilty to a Superseding Information that charged her with Simple Assault.
