News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly failing to register as a convicted sex offender between November 2012 and January 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Four additional defendants, who pleaded guilty to their respective roles in a major methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that they operated in Wichita Falls, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton issued the following statement in honor and recognition of his friend, Michigan colleague, and former Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Dingell, who today became the longest-serving Member of Congress in the history of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: The Lummi Nation’s Crime Victims Unit and Lummi Police Detective Kelley Long were recognized this week by U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan for their outstanding work with crime victims. The Lummi Victims of Crime Unit was established 23 years ago and has 14 staff members working to assist those who have...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Greg J. Campbell pled guilty to diverting over $1.8 million from client retirement accounts to finance his luxury home, cars and lifestyle.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - A Malian man convicted in U.S. federal court for providing material support to a Colombian narco-terrorist group was deported and turned over to Malian authorities Wednesday by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Phoenix.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on June 7, 2013, Phoenix Martinez, 19, Cannonball, N.D., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of arson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released the fourth in a series of white papers examining a number of issues emerging with the current system. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) are leading this effort to review the law and its implementation and are soliciting input from interested stakeholders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Tommy Dean Turner was sentenced yesterday to 36 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $365,626 in restitution following his guilty plea in February 2013 to one count of conspiracy to file false claims. His co-conspirator, Shaunthina Daniel Rushing, who pleaded guilty to the same offense, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 19, 2013. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Batesland, South Dakota man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on June 3, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Jerry Samuel Joseph, 33, who has also been known as “Gerry Jeudy," “Jeremiah Pericles," and “Jay," was arrested this morning in Brooklyn, New York, on charges arising from a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. Joseph was a Tallahassee resident until approximately 2009.
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, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Davis pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Octavius Miller, 32, of Niagara Falls, New York, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge William M. Skretny to 7 years imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for his conviction of Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base (crack).
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today issued the statement below following the announcement by Southern California Edison of the permanent closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - On June 5, 2013, a California man was sentenced in federal court to 10 years incarceration on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned a multi-count indictment charging Israel “Puck" Washington, 39, of Sacramento; Deyonte Spears, 25, of Oakland; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that William Thunder Hawk, age 19, of Porcupine, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on May 30, 2013 and pled guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: Inmate Larry Scott Intentionally Possessed Marijuana,.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: GIE PRESTON, age 38; BURNELL ALLEN, age 33; SONNY ALLEN, age 40; LIONEL ALLEN, age 19; EUGENE ALLEN, age 30; EMANUEL CASAME, age 25; and MARK RAYFIELD, age 25, all residents of New Orleans, were charged yesterday in a 16-count superseding indictment unsealed today. Defendant PRESTON had previously been...
