News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: An man who defrauded investors through his company, Virtual Vision, Inc., pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park's Citizen Science Program announces two opportunities to help with early detection of invasive plants along park trails: Noxious Weed Blitz on July 23 and an on-line training course for the Invasive Plants Citizen Science program. Both opportunities are free of charge and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced FILIBERTO COBARRUBIAS-HERRERA, 39,of Madison, North Carolina, to 72 months of imprisonment and 4 years of supervised release upon his release from the Bureau of Prisons. COBARRUBIAS-HERRERA previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretary Duncan, Chairwoman Ramirez, and Director Cordray...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Detroit couple was convicted on July 11 by a federal jury sitting in Charleston on oxycodone distribution conspiracy charges. Ciara Dawkins, also known as “C," 27, was found guilty on two counts of an indictment: conspiracy to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: An indictment was filed charging Ronald E. Deal, Sr., age 56, of McComb, Ohio, with aiming a green laser pointer at a Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center Life Flight helicopter en-route from the hospital to Bluffton Airport, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on “America’s Helium Supply: Options for Producing more Helium from Federal Lands." The hearing focused on the increased demand for helium, the future of U.S. helium supplies after the Federal Helium Reserve is depleted, and existing and potential production of helium from federal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, July 11, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON -Charles Edward Suttles, 56, of Dayton has been sentenced to 120 months in prison for viewing sexually explicit images of minor children while he was a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Casey Charles, age 34, of Baltimore, today to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud in connection with a scheme in which he promised to help clients make safe investments when in fact he diverted their money for his personal benefit. Judge Blake also ordered that Charles pay restitution and forfeiture of $890,356.90.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Dwight Black Spotted Horse, age 28, of Rosebud, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on July 8, 2013, and pled guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Three used car salesmen have entered guilty pleas for their roles in selling cars to drug traffickers in an effort to launder drug proceeds, announced United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Preston Coriz, 32, a member of Kewa Pueblo, pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12 year. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Coriz will be will be sentenced to a federal prison term within the range of 15 to 18 years followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Preston also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today the transfer of $505,503.06 in forfeited currency to the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Department. The transfer was authorized by the federal equitable sharing program enacted by Congress in the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 and...
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered this opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing, “Assessing the Transition in Afghanistan."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: JULY 11-William J. Conway, a Baldwin, New York physician, pled guilty today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to conspiring to illegally distribute the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to patients, who the defendant knew were addicts and without performing any meaningful medical examination. When sentenced, Conway faces up to 20 years in prison, a $1 million fine and loss of his license to practice medicine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan yesterday sentenced Stephen Joseph Woods (34, Savannah, Georgia) to 15 years in prison for sending notices over the Internet offering to produce and receive child pornography. Woods was also ordered to serve a life term of supervision and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury has charged a Springfield, Ill., man who does business as ‘The Granite Guy,’ George J. “Jerzy" Jaworski, with four counts of filing false income tax returns for the calendar years 2005 through 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On July 11, 2013, David Shane Anderson, age 41, of Hamburg, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on a charge of felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief United States District Court Judge...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Channel Islands National Park volunteer Joe Wysocki died following an accident at Anacapa Island on Wednesday July 10, 2013. Wysocki fell off the landing dock ladder as he was boarding the National Park Service (NPS) vessel Ocean Ranger at about 3:15 pm and sustained a serious head injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: An indictment was filed chagring James Rynn, age 33, of Rossford, Ohio, with receiving, distributing, and possessing child pornography between February and April 2012, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
