News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas jewelry store owner pleaded guilty today to receiving and selling stolen goods totaling about $196,500, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: MORGANTOWN, W. Va. - Today, Secretary Moniz dedicated a new supercomputer-one of the world’s fastest and most energy efficient-at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The high-performance computer for energy and the environment is not only one of the top 100 supercomputers in the world, but it is also one of the most energy efficient for its size.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Brentwood, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation, which will include one year of home detention and 150 hours of community service, on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and to acquire controlled substances by fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Ronald William Brown (58, Largo) to 20 years in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography. In addition, he was sentenced to a lifetime of supervision, following his release from prison. The court also ordered Brown...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Terrance Dion Robinson, age 39, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 51 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for eight counts of sexually exploiting minors to produce child pornography. Robinson had two previous convictions...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: The following climbing route in Arches National Park is again open to rock climbing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: Vernon Browning funded and organized more than two dozen trips to Georgia to get painkillers to sell.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Texas. Monday, July 29, 2013. Defendant Also Ordered to Forfeit Vehicle, More Than $200,000 Cash and Jewelry. DALLAS - Omar Guerrero Acosta, aka “Pilas," 30, of Dallas, was sentenced late last week by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an inmate at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners Springfield, Mo., has pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that John George Sessine (53, Lake City) has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Jacksonville on child pornography charges. Sessine is charged with three counts of receiving child pornography. On each of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced three Lakeland residents to federal prison terms for various firearm and drug violations. Phillip Thomas (28) was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for transferring an unregistered short barreled shotgun and aiding and abetting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man with two prior drug trafficking convictions under different names was sentenced today to almost twenty-two years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a discussion draft of legislation to establish an Advanced Energy Trust Fund, which would significantly boost domestic energy research and be funded exclusively with revenues from energy production on federal lands that are currently off-limits to development. Comments are due by Friday, Sept. 6, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Christopher Earl Pratt, 42, of Portage, Michigan was sentenced today to 87 months (7 years and 3 months) in federal prison for defrauding his former employer, Village Market Food Centers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today. In addition to the prison term, Chief U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - April Johnston, a former corrections officer, was sentenced today to three months in jail and six months of home detention for accepting money to bring contraband into a District of Columbia correctional facility, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney, William J. Hochul, Jr., announced that Mark Logan, 63, of Southlake, Texas, pleaded guilty to presenting false information to customs officers and sentenced to pay a $5,000 fine by U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Two defendants who were arrested in May after they allegedly attempted to rob a bank in Richmond, Ill., during which a third suspect was fatally shot, will be arraigned on federal charges tomorrow in U.S. District in Chicago. The defendants, AARON RUSSELL and ROBERTO FAVELA, who were initially charged in Federal Court in Rockford, were indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Chicago, moving the case to the Federal Court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on July 25, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, a 37-year-old resident of Browning, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jose Alejandro Carrillo, 24, of Matamoros, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of obstructing boarding, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Rear Admiral Kevin S. Cook, Eighth Coast Guard District Commander. Castillo, who has been in custody since his arrest, pleaded guilty on April 24, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two of the stars of the Bravo television show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey" were charged today in a conspiracy to defraud lenders and illegally obtain mortgages and other loans as well as allegedly hiding assets and income during a bankruptcy case, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
