News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Randy Patrie, age 40, from Charles City, Iowa, has been charged with committing four firearms offenses: 1) stealing firearms from a licensed firearms dealer; 2) possession of stolen firearms; 3) possession of firearms as a felon and an Armed Career Criminal; and 4) possession of sawed-off shotguns. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed on July 23, 2013, in the United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On July 22, 2013, Terry Harris Lee, 66, of Peach Springs, Ariz., an enrolled member of the Hualapai Nation Indian Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 180 months in federal prison, followed by a term of lifetime supervised release. Lee pleaded guilty on May 2, 2013 to sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Albanian national who was living in Clifton, N.J., was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for robbing two TD Bank branches while armed with a gun in late 2011, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Coalition for the 21st Century Postal Service today endorsed H.R. 2748, the Postal Reform Act of 2013. The legislation, introduced by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., along with Postal Subcommittee Chairman Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., will be considered at a Committee business meeting tomorrow.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have demonstrated a new design for an instrument, a "instrumented nanoscale indenter," that makes sensitive measurements of the mechanical properties of thin films-ranging from auto body coatings...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Paul Robert Gunter (64, Odessa, Florida; originally of London) to 25 years in federal prison, Simon Andrew Odoni (56, originally of Hertfordshire, UK) to 13 years, 4 months in federal prison, and Richard Sinclair Pope (55, originally...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: MOOSE, WY - Avalanche Canyon was the site of the latest rescue in Grand Teton National Park. Five park rangers performed one of the more physically taxing ground based rescues in the last several years during the afternoon and evening of Monday, July 22.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: When Detroit filed Chapter 9 bankruptcy last week, Americans were once again reminded of the public pension debt that has plagued municipalities, towns and cities across the nation. A mismanaged budget coupled with a tough economy has left America’s Motor City unable to dig out from an $18 billion hole, with nearly four billion of that promised to public employees in the retiree health and pension commitments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: ROGER BRENT CHURCHWELL, age 58, of Vero Beach, Florida, was charged in a one-count bill of information today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Officer Awarded Contracts to Freight Shipper in Return for Cash and Plane Tickets.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ban dental clinics from participating in the Medicaid program if the dental clinics circumvent state laws designed to ensure only licensed dentists own dental practices as part of an effort to prevent substandard care.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new standard reference material (SRM), the first such measurement tool to enable hospitals to link important tissue density measurements made by CAT scans to international standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Celia Alchemy Savage pleaded guilty in federal district court to making and possessing two pipe bombs found at her residence that were not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Registry, as is required by federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: A Leroy Township man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for fraud that occured during his employment as a project manager with The Fowler Company which cost the company nearly $1 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Excelsior Springs, Mo., man who called law enforcement officers to his home is among three residents charged in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two shipping firms based in Germany and Cyprus were sentenced today to a $10.4 million monetary penalty for felony obstruction of justice charges and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships related to the deliberate concealment of vessel pollution from four ships that visited ports...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Juan Jesus Chavez-Salazar, 26, of Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced today by Chief District Judge Ann Aiken to 168 months in prison for conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, defendant will be on supervised release for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Matthew Lewis Colston, 30, of Livingston County was indicted by a federal grand jury in Flint on charges of manufacturing child pornography, use of a facility in interstate commerce to entice a minor, and transfer of obscene matter to a minor, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Robert D. Foley III, FBI Special Agent in Charge and Kriste Kibbey Etue, Director of the Michigan State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Daniel Joseph Dalton, 37, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Pocatello for possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. An initial appearance has not been set.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, the Subcommittee on Health approved an advanced legislative framework to transform the Medicare physician payment system. The bill repeals the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) system and replaces it with a fair, stable, and simplified system of payments. Instead of...
