News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that Lee Michael Spoonhunter, an enrolled Northern Arapaho Tribal member, appeared in federal court on June 6, 2013, for an arraignment. Mr. Spoonhunter appeared with counsel and pled not guilty to the indictment charging assault resulting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 35-year-old New Boston, Texas woman has been arrested for a federal violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales and FBI Special Agent in Charge Diego Rodriguez.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: On Saturday, June 15, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. the public is invited to re-create history and participate in a commemorative march along the historic trace road that General Washington's Continental Army used to march out of Valley Forge 235 years ago. The program begins at Artillery Park (tour stop #7)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Tomas Roque, a former reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6, has entered a plea of guilty to one violation of the Hobbs Act, or extortion under color of official right, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jody Albert Hunt, age 35, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on June 4, 2013 and pled guilty to Possession and Sale of a Stolen Firearm and Tampering with a Witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 50-year-old former resident of Luzerne County was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison Thursday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy for failing to update his sex offender registration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on June 5, 2013, in Billings, after a federal district court trial before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, SONNY LIONEL CRAZYMULE, a 34-year-old resident of Lame Deer, was found guilty of aiding and abetting assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Sentencing is set for Sept. 13, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Matthew James Addy, 34, of Lancaster, Penn., was sentenced today to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for running a $3.4 million Ponzi scheme that involved the fake purchase and resale of wholesale jewelry and loose precious stones. Addy was also ordered to pay $2,741,321 in restitution to his victims and to forfeit to the government hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and J.D. Patterson, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), announced arrests of defendants Marco Cruz, 47...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - On Thursday evening Glacier National Park Rangers rescued a stranded visitor from Upper McDonald Creek.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: OWENSBORO, Ky. - A Daviess County, Kentucky man pleaded guilty today, in United States District Court, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr. to charges of accessing a protected computer to obtain something of value with the intent to defraud, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today charging Edwin Malo-Vergara, 50; Aurelio Ruben-Bulgin, 25; and Jose Junez-Ramirez Sr., 46, all of Stockton, with drug trafficking, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 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 Attempted Sexual Abuse of a Minor and Abusive Sexual Contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joel Rodriguez, 37, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon to robbing a business engaged in interstate commerce under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Rodriguez will be sentenced to ten years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Shavar Davis, 30, of Denver, Colo., has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his involvement in a murder-for-hire and drug conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Davis pleaded guilty in August 2012 to a superseding indictment which charged him with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Miller Jerrell Griffin, who uses a street name of “Click Down," was sentenced this morning in federal court to 22 years imprisonment on charges of kidnapping, using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and conspiracy to use and carry a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: Dear Dr. Kim: As strong supporters of the World Bank’s mission to eradicate poverty, we write regarding three inter-related aspects of the Bank’s work to reduce poverty by fostering growth: the Bank’s annual Doing Business assessments, its Open Aid Partnerships, and its efforts to fight corruption.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: New Bedford, MA -New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park is offering free fun in the sun as part of National Get Outdoors Day. Get a head start to a healthier, happier you with yoga in the park or “burn while you learn" by taking a guided or self-guided walking tour of the historic district on Saturday, June 15. This event had been scheduled for June 8, and was postponed to a rain date of Saturday, June 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: Doris Rotondi, 86, and her daughter Joy Taylor 55, both of Colwyn, Pennsylvania, were charged today by Indictment with conspiracy to commit passport fraud and making, uttering and possessing counterfeit checks, false statements in United States passport applications, passport mutilation, theft of government property, and failure to disclose income to the Social Security Administration, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
