News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: A Collinsville man pled guilty on July 22, 2013, to Production of Child Pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2251(a), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Martin L. Evanick, a/k/a "Vlad," 31, Collinsville...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are exploring options for using invasive trees to develop fuel.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The National Park Service invites the public to the 20th annual Native American Heritage Days on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Michael John Ebenhoeh, 53, of Mountain Home, was sentenced to 48 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession and access with intent to view sexually explicit images of minors. Ebenhoeh appeared this morning before the Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise. He pleaded guilty to the charge on April 18, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: A Romanian citizen who traveled to Seattle in April 2013 in an attempt to scam participants in internet auctions pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. DANIEL MUNTEANU, 29, was arrested May 1, 2013 at Seattle-Tacoma International...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: Maggie Tyler 912-882-4336 ext. 257. Cumberland Island National Seashore Begins Work on Docks to Provide Easier Public Access. St. Marys, GA. - The National Park Service will soon begin a project to upgrade the National Seashore’s dock facilities including the St. Marys and Dungeness docks improving access...
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel released the following statement on the European Union’s decision to place Hezbollah’s military wing on its terrorist list...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, July 24 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will mark up the Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 2637). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Five Larimer County residents were arrested late last week for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with intent to manufacture and distribute, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: Dr. Mahmoud Yassin, 61, of Robinson, IL, was sentenced in federal district court in Benton for Obstructing a Criminal Health Care Fraud Investigator, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Dr. Yassin was sentenced to serve 3 years of probation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A San Clemente man who owned and operated a string of nine illegal marijuana stores that generated at least $25 million in profits was sentenced today to 262 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to an Internet sex crime that took place while he was in the Kansas Sexual Predator Treatment Program at Larned State Hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Mercury Ambulance Service, Inc. (MAS), d/b/a Rural/Metro, has voluntarily reached an agreement today, with the United States of America, to pay $40,000 to settle allegations that it violated the federal Controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif.) - Three marijuana cultivators in Fresno County pleaded guilty and one was sentenced today for their involvement in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation operations in Fresno County, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of a Joplin, Mo., business pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a mail fraud conspiracy and to money laundering related to the sale of K2, the slang term for synthetic cannabinoid products.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: NEW HAVEN, 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 two men involved in New Haven-area drug trafficking were sentenced today by Senior United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - - Multiple indictments have been partially unsealed following the arrest and appearances of several area residents for numerous drug and money laundering charges, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The enforcement actions took place in the Laredo, Houston and Dallas areas on Friday, July 19, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2013
News Release: Olympic National Park rangers responded to two unrelated incidents involving visitor deaths yesterday, Saturday July 20.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “On July 21-22, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin will travel to Monterey, Calif. to host the first Five Country Ministerial meeting with international counterparts ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of an Information in U.S. District Court in Scranton today charging Bernard C. Nolter, Jr., age 45, of Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, with falsification of financial records.
