News published on Federal Newswire in July 2013

News from July 2013


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Monique Flood, age 19, of Mission, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on July 11, 2013, and pled guilty to Second Degree Burglary.


Little Eagle Woman Sentence On Assault Charges

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault By Striking, Beating and Wounding and Simple Assault was sentenced on July 10, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.


News Release: A Murphysboro, IL, resident was indicted on July 9, 2013, in an indictment, charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.


Owner Of Charlotte Behavioral Health Company Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For $400,000 Medicaid Fraud Scheme

News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.


News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.


News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on July 12, 2013, Robert Redroad, Jr. of St. Michael, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson on charges of burglary of a post office and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Redroad, Jr. pleaded guilty to the charges on April 16, 2013.


Jury Finds Middletown Man Guilty Of Narcotics And Firearm Offenses

News Release: Deirdre Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found JEFF SPRUILL, 30, of Middletown, guilty of narcotics distribution and firearm offenses. The jury returned the verdict today following a two-day trial before United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny.


Mission Man Sentenced For Abusive Sexual Contact

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on July 11, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.


News Release: A DuQuoin, IL, resident was indicted on July 9, 2013, charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.


Former Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Deputy Director Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud And Money Laundering

News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation Nashville Field Office announced today that, in a hearing held before U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright, Remmele Mazyck...


Second Defendant Pleads Guilty; Admits Illegally PossessingMachine Gun

News Release: BOISE - Phillip Bernardino Chavez, 29, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to count two of a superseding indictment charging him with illegal possession of a machine gun, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.


Release: When the astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a shipment of food recently, it included jam from a company called Stonewall Kitchen. Jonathan King and Jim Stott started selling their homemade jams from a folding table at a local farmers’ market in Maine in 1991. Today, their company sells specialty food products that are enjoyed all over the world, literally.


Former Big Spring, Texas, Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison On Child Pornography Conviction

News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Christopher Aubrey Harlan, 27, formerly of Big Spring, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 15 years in federal prison, to be followed by eight years of supervised release, following his guilty plea in March 2013 to one count of receiving child pornography.


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on July 9, 2013, before Senior Wm. Fremming Nielsen, CEDRICK MARC LEIBY, a 35-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Colton White Feather, age 18, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on July 11, 2013, and pled guilty to the Indictment that charged him with Assaulting a Federal Officer.


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on July 11, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, DUSTIN ROY GILPIN, a 33-year-old resident of Kalispell, was sentenced to a term of.


Bonesteel Woman Charged With Child Abuse

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bonesteel, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Child Abuse.


News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Two men, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to wire fraud charges stemming from their use of Craigslist to obtain victims’ credit card information, have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge John McBryde. James Lee Williams, II, 40, of Dallas, was sentenced on April 26, 2013, to...


News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Njeazeh Roderigue Ambeabet, 24, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 210 months in federal prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, following his guilty plea in April 2013 to one count of production of child pornography. Ambeabet has been in custody since his arrest in February 2013. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.


La Cosa Nostra Associate Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Gary Battaglini, 52, of Sewell, NJ, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison and a $1,000 fine for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy involving loan sharking and illegal gambling. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno ordered three years of supervised release.