News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - At a sentencing hearing held this morning in federal court in Fort Worth, an Arlington, Texas, man, Shani Shehu, 42, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to a two-year term of probation and fined $10,000, following his guilty plea in April 2013 to an information charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Juan Jesus Chavez-Salazar, 26, of Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced on July 23, 2013, to 168 months in prison for conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, he will be placed on supervised release for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Michael M. Rucker (34, St. Petersburg) to twenty years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school and being a convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. The court also ordered Rucker to forfeit firearms and ammunition involved in the commission of the offenses. Rucker was found guilty by a jury on Feb. 14, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A five-count federal returned on Wednesday and unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Providence charges Henry A. Fellela, Jr., 55, of Johnston, with obtaining the identity of a Smithfield resident and using that person’s identity and credit card to purchase more than $3,000 worth...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Marblemount, WA - July 26, 2013 - North Cascades National Park Complex had two fires reported from thunderstorms on Tuesday, July 17, 2013. Personnel have been managing these fires since the last update.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On July 25, 2013, a grand jury returned two additional drug conspiracy indictments stemming from the same investigation that resulted in charges against numerous members of an Anchorage based rap group back in August of 2012. That indictment alleged a conspiracy to distribute over...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Motorists traveling on East Beach Road along the north shore of Lake Crescent may encounter delays of up to 15 minutes as crews resurface two short segments of road on Tuesday, July 30. Work is scheduled to begin at 8: 00 a.m. and continue until approximately 3:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Mexican Nationals Gabriel Miramontes, 36, Carlos Garza-Salazar, 31, Jose Gonzalez-Lopez, 27, and Librado Zuniga-Polanco, 30, have been ordered to prison following their convictions in relation to a marijuana trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The men pleaded guilty on Feb. 7, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Burglary and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 29, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday and continuing into Wednesday, the full committee has scheduled a markup of the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act and the FCC...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Martin Moreno, 52, of Farmington, N.M., pleaded guilty earlier today to drug trafficking and firearms charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Moreno will be sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. The guilty plea was announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Staff at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park eagerly heralds the third annual “Within the Shadows of Cumberland Gap Heritage Walk" being held Saturday, August 3rd, 2013. Each year, some of the lesser-known people in the Gap’s history - from geologists to politicians, from scalp buyers to ancestors...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 25, 2013, Keevin J. Hanes, age 26, was sentenced by United States District Judge James E. Gritzner to 161 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute, 280 grams or more of cocaine base, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Hanes was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release following the imprisonment, and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Antoine Dyson, 42, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a four-year prison term on charges stemming from a Capitol Hill robbery and a theft from an automobile in a downtown parking lot, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Rodney Termini, 47 of Ogelsby, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to sending threatening communications, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley, III, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Monroeville, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months in prison and three years supervised release on his conviction of failure to pay taxes associated with his businesses, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: A federal indictment made public today in New Jersey charges five men with conspiring in a worldwide hacking and data breach scheme that targeted major corporate networks, stole more than 160 million credit card numbers and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. It is the largest such scheme ever prosecuted in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: A former health care clinic director and licensed clinical psychologist at defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN) was sentenced today in Miami to serve 135 months in prison for her central role in a fraud scheme that resulted in more than $63 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Florida Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder today welcomed the confirmation by the U.S. Senate of Tony West as the Department of Justice’s Associate Attorney General.
