News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn - Joseph Banner, 34, of Erwin, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 170 months in prison, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge. Banner pleaded guilty to a federal indictment which was filed in September 2012, charging Banner and 20 others with Conspiracy to Manufacture Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned an indictment today charging KEVIN J. DUNBAR, 44, of Manchester, and OVES ST. ORBIN WRIGHT, 56, of Massapequa, N.Y., with marijuana trafficking offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Republicans today introduced two legislative proposals that would protect workers’ right to secret ballot union elections and roll back the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) micro-union Specialty Healthcare decision. The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions will discuss both proposals during a hearing scheduled for June 26.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: New York’s departments of State and Environmental Conservation and the Scenic Hudson Land Trust, the largest environmental group focused on the Hudson River Valley, joined in the purchase.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to 51 months imprisonment followed by 20 years supervised release on his conviction of possessing child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTIANO HENRIQUE De PAULA, also known as “Christiano DePaula," “Christian DePaula," and “Christiano Decamargo," 27, a citizen of Brazil, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 15 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after he was deported.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Philadelphia - On Friday, June 14, at noon, four members of the Spirit of Liberty Sky Diving Team will sky dive onto Independence Mall, across from Independence Hall.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Zachary Aaron Staley, age 30, of Hanover, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 20 years in prison for distributing heroin that resulted in two deaths. Judge Rambo further ordered that Staley pay $19,024.75 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing in response to your letter on June 11, 2013, regarding your recent objection to releasing the full transcripts of Committee staff interviews with IRS employees. Specifically, I am writing to seek clarification of your position and to request that you identify the specific...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Orlando - U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Michael F. Callahan (63, Palm Bay) to 21 years and eight months in federal prison for receipt of child pornography. The court also ordered him to forfeit the computer he used to commit the offense. As part of Callahan's sentence, he was ordered to serve a life term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender, following his release from prison. Callahan pleaded guilty on Jan. 24, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Robert Jade Lopez-Parker, 40, most recently a resident of Abilene, Texas, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to 46 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE B Spencer Larry Parson, 25, and Amber Sasha-Rashawn Simmons, 23, both of Tampa, were sentenced to 57 months in federal prison following their guilty pleas to conspiring to defraud the United States in the filing of false tax returns. Parson and Simmons also pled guilty to two counts of wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: A Cleveland man was found guilty of trying to use explosives to destroy a bridge in Northeast Ohio, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tenya Lester-Gonzales, 37, a member and resident of the Mescalero Apache Nation, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to a felony information alleging an assault with a dangerous weapon charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: A Defendant Is Presumed Innocent Unless Convicted Through Due Process Of Law.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska - A new wildfire was spotted by State of Alaska Division of Forestry (DOF) fire staff June 11 in northeastern Wrangell-St. Elias NP. The Bruin Creek fire is 73 miles southeast of Slana, 22 miles northeast of Chisana, 28 miles west of Beaver Creek, Canada and 16 miles southwest of the Chisana River Fire. At 2 acres, the fire was inactive except for a few smokes. Wrangell-St. Elias NP and DOF fire staff will monitor the fire closely.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Sheila Anderson-Cloude, a/k/a Sheila Anderson, age 33, of Nottingham, Maryland, and Tonia Patrice Lawson, age 42, of Baltimore, on charges related to a conspiracy to obtain fraudulent tax refunds, sometimes using the personal information of other individuals, without their knowledge or permission. The indictment was returned on June 11, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 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 Jose DeJesus, also known as “Flaco," 29, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Annual Barry Hance Award is Park's Highest Honor.
