News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday, FELIX A. OKAFOR, 52, of Wendell, North Carolina, was convicted by a federal jury of 25 drug and firearms offenses including conspiracy to distribute 100 grams of heroin and 100 kilograms of marijuana, four counts of distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: A US citizen who resides in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico pleaded guilty to brokering international Money Laundering transactions, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Rodolfo Reyes Mata, aka Rudy Mata, 40, of San Antonio, Texas, appeared this morning in federal court before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to an Information charging one count of mail fraud and aiding abetting. Mata, who will remain on bond, faces a maximum statutory...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: On July 11, 2013, Jeremy R. Rettig, a/k/a “Jeremo," 32, of Cutler, IL, and Kathy L. Griffin, 36, of Murphysboro, IL, were sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on an indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on July 12, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, JOSHUA ALAN BLYTHE, a 27-year-old resident of Butte, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Demetrius L. Combs, 22, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced to five years of probation, six months home detention and ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $2662 for the offense of Filing a False Federal Income Tax Return, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Randy Patrie, age 40, from Charles City, Iowa, has been charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges are contained in a Complaint filed on July 10, 2013, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Nathaniel Chilo, aka Nathaniel O’Neil, 23 of Houston, has been sentenced to prison for his role in perpetuating a debt relief scam with his father, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Chilo pleaded guilty Sept. 21, 2012, admitting that between September 2009 and September 2010, he assisted his father, Jeffery Wayne O’Neil, 55, of Houston, in promoting a number of debt relief/elimination schemes to individuals throughout the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Due to extremely high humpback whale densities, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Susan L. Boudreau announced today a reduced speed limit for cruise ships in all current "whale waters" in Glacier Bay. A speed limit of 10 knots through the water will apply to all cruise ships from 5 AM Saturday July 13 until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Christopher Pappagallo, 40, of Vernon, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) yesterday continued committee efforts to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The subcommittee discussed the FCC Process Reform Act and the FCC Consolidated...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has pleaded guilty to federal firearms and drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) yesterday continued committee efforts to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The subcommittee discussed the FCC Process Reform Act and the FCC Consolidated...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Sen. John Thune (R-SD), a Member of the Committee, today introduced a bipartisan bill with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) that will help spur new agricultural research by ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) yesterday continued committee efforts to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The subcommittee discussed the FCC Process Reform Act and the FCC Consolidated...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Stephen Reid, age 51, of Frederick, Maryland, today to two years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud arising from the failure to provide contracted-for services to clients of Reid’s company. Judge Blake also ordered that Reid forfeit and pay restitution of $628,581.48, the amount of loss resulting from the fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: An investigation is underway regarding the discovery and recovery of a body identified as that of 25-year old Cody Lee Johnson of Kalispell.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: July film chronicles lives of five young lobstermen As part of Dock-U-Mentaries film series.
