News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Cache Included Military-Style Assault Rifles, Handguns and Shotgun.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A report released today by House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) revealed...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: The dome of Boca Chita lighthouse in Biscayne National Park is being replaced resulting in the closure of the structure to the public at least through Aug. 27, 2013. The repairs are necessary because panels in the dome were broken and unable to withstand the weather.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Grand Teton National Park rangers initiated a rescue and conducted an aerial evacuation on Friday afternoon, July 12, after a climber seriously injured his leg while glissading down a snowfield in Hanging Canyon. Lauren Hall, age 33, of Jackson, Wyoming and a companion successfully climbed a feature...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Edna Edith Sepulveda, 39, of McAllen, has surrendered to federal authorities following the return of an indictment alleging she perpetrated more than $200,000 in bank fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: A Valmeyer man was sentenced in federal district court on July 15, 2013, for Distribution of Child Pornography (Count 1) and Possession of Child Pornography (Count 2), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Alan L. Mitchell, 52, of Valmeyer...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Join Fort Sumter National Monument as we celebrate National Lighthouse Day at the Sullivan’s Island Lighthouse on Wednesday, August 7, 2013. The special public event takes place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on the grounds of the U.S. Coast Guard Historic District at 1815 I’On Avenue on Sullivan’s Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for possessing child pornography on his computer and an external hard drive, including images of children being sexually abused, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Russell Yates, 42, of Providence, was sentenced on Friday to 30 months in federal prison for possessing and passing counterfeit money, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Brian S. Deck, Acting Resident Agent in Charge of the Providence Office of the U.S. Secret Service.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Twelve middle school-aged youth with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Missoula County and the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County will experience a photographic exploration of Glacier National Park from July 22-26 through "Glacier in Focus," an educational partnership...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today CHRISTOPHER JASON WILLIAMS, 33, of Fayetteville, North Carolina pleaded guilty before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, to two counts of Sex Trafficking of Children, in violation of Title 18, United States Code Section 1591.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Diwancha Brown, 39, formerly of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 21 years and 10 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for Conspiracy to distribute over 280 grams of cocaine base (crack cocaine). After completion of his prison sentence, Mr. Brown will serve a 5 year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jeffrey Todd Howard, 34, of Los Angeles, Calif., has been ordered to prison following his conviction of soliciting a child for sex through the Internet, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Howard was convicted after a two-day bench trial before Senior U.S. District Judge John D. Rainey on April 4, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT CABANBAN JR., 23, of New London, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of assault charges has pled guilty and was sentenced on July 12, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Jackson, TN - Douglas Earl McCasland, 45, of Savannah, TN, was indicted today on 10 counts of mail fraud, and three counts of making false statements regarding the proper remediation of houses where methamphetamines have been produced, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -James Carney Ritterhoff, 40, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 90 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his child pornography charges. Ritterhoff will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich, II, of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for his role in a scheme in which he and others stole business checks from the U.S. Mail in New Jersey and Connecticut, altered them, and cashed them, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: MARTIN VELLOZZI, age 56, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with mail fraud for his role in creating and selling non-authentic Merceds-Benz diagnostic equipment, announced United States Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Dodge City gang member has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit assaults with dangerous weapons in connection with a federal racketeering case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
