News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced the guilty plea of Elias Gonzalez in a Nuestra Familia racketeering case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two men have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: St. Thomas Man Arrested and Charged with Using Internet to Coerce and Entice Three Minor Girls St. Thomas, USVI - Tony Jefferson Browne, 30, of St. Thomas was arrested today and charged with using the Internet to coerce and entice three female minors to engage in sexual activity, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 36-year-old St. Cloud man was indicted for robbing the TCF Bank located at 1001 Fourth Street in St. Cloud. Fehd El Mehdi Kourima was specifically charged with one count of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A four-day jury trial has been scheduled for August for two individuals charged in connection with three smoke shop robberies in West Valley City and Midvale in May.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - REGINA EVANS and her husband, RONALD EVANS, the former police chief and the former inspector general, respectively, of suburban Country Club Hills, were each charged today with three counts of filing false federal income tax returns for allegedly failing to report all of their income during calendar years 2007-09. They were charged in a felony information filed today in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: On June 7, 2013, Michael O'Brien, age 25, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was found deceased near the Homer Wilson Ranch in Big Bend National Park. Mr. O'Brien had a permit for conducting geology research in the Sierra Quemada during the period of June 3 through 6. On the morning of June 7, he was determined to be overdue and a search was initiated by park rangers. Cause of death is yet to be determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Nine federal defendants and a one state defendant were arrested today, on charges related to a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine and phencyclidine (PCP), in the Riverdale area of Prince George’s County, Maryland. More than 160 law enforcement officers, led by the Bureau...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), in a letter sent today to Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, rejected the top Democrat investigator’s public statements that the Committee should end its investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative political groups.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, PAUL JOSEPH SCHMURA, JR., 49, of Burgaw, North Carolina, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James C. Fox to 121 months imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Developer, Architect And Current Owner Agree To Enhance Accessibility; Developer And Architect Agree To Pay Civil Penalties And Contribute To An Aggrieved Persons Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 11, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individuals were arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - John Morris, 64, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a prison term of nine years and seven months on a charge of bank robbery while armed, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that federal charges were filed Monday in Harrisburg against a Northampton, Pennsylvania man for having drugs and drug paraphernalia on a federal installation in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: A Criminal Complaint Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former correctional officer at the United States Penitentiary-Lewisburg was sentenced today in Williamsport by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 12 months’ probation for the theft of government property. The Court ordered restitution in the amount of $1,545.76, which represented the cost of the materials.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: DOLORES, Colo.- James Peshlakai, a Navajo elder, storyteller, teacher and artist who successfully bridges cultural gaps, will share his insights at 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 30 at the Anasazi Heritage Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining effective ways to identify, prevent, and intervene in cases involving sex trafficking and the exploitation of children and youth in America...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: ReSean Ridgel, a 25-year old East St. Louis, Illinois resident, was sentenced in the United States District Court on June 10, 2013, to 46 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Nicholas P. Allman, 22, of Kamiah, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of involuntary manslaughter, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
