News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. -United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced that four men have been charged in a superseding indictment returned today by a Federal Grand Jury in Tulsa. The superseding indictment is the result of a two-year investigation conducted by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) into the “107 Hoover Crips" street gang and its criminal activities of drug dealing, extortion, and violence, including shootings.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today on Mike Froman’s nomination to be U.S. trade representative (USTR), Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) urged him to aggressively pursue an ambitious trade agenda that will boost U.S. exports and create U.S. jobs. Senator Baucus noted that Froman has...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALISHA FRASER, 27, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Thomas P. Smith in Hartford to one count of passing counterfeit U.S. currency at a store in North Haven.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today the release of the 2013 Operations Plan for the Klamath Project. The plan is based upon the expected hydrologic conditions from the June 1 Natural Resource Conservation Service inflow forecast and current reservoir elevations.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee Chairwoman Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) highlighted a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: On June 6, 2013, at about 9:45 am, a body was discovered in Point Reyes National Seashore near Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the area of the Platform Bridge Road. The body appears to be a female in her late 20s or early 30s. The National Park Service has asked the Marin County Sheriff’s Office to lead...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding a Federal Law Enforcement Officer was sentenced on June 3, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Darryl A. Stuckey, age 48, formerly of Fort Washington, Maryland today to two years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for corruptly obstructing the Internal Revenue Code and fraudulently concealing assets in a bankruptcy proceeding. Judge Titus also ordered Stuckey to pay restitution of $300,632.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Rain Joakim-Anwa Davis, aka Jeri Lynn Hardin, 50, has been handed a 33-month federal sentence following her conviction on two counts of wire fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Davis pleaded guilty Jan. 22, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Beginning Saturday, June 8, Monocacy National Battlefield will provide a new opportunity for kids and their families to visit the park and explore nature. The park, in partnership with the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, has established a new TRACK TRAIL at Worthington Farm. The family friendly trail...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man from Kansas City, Kan., has been indicted on drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced the filing of indictments returned by a federal grand jury in Scranton on May 21 and June 4, 2013, charging a total of 23 persons with offenses related to trafficking in controlled substances, including heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Naveed Sheikh, age 32, of Baltimore, today to 87 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to and infringing copyrights by illegally reproducing and distributing over 1,000 copyrighted commercial software programs. Judge Bennett entered an order requiring Sheikh to forfeit $4 million, the total value of the infringed software programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 24-year-old Reading man pleaded guilty Wednesday before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to participating in a cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy in 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A North Las Vegas man was sentenced today to four years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $64,921 to the IRS, for his guilty pleas to filing multiple false tax returns in the names of others, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Beginning Monday, June 10, hikers using the southern portion of the popular Jenny Lake trail to Hidden Falls and Cascade Canyon will need to take an upper trail segment beyond Moose Ponds junction. This reroute will be in place for two to four weeks while significant restoration work is done along the more often used shoreline trail.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Acting Superintendent Tom VandenBerg announced two changes today in 'whale waters' regulations designed to protect humpback whales from collision and disturbance. First, a vessel speed limit of 13 knots through the water will be implemented in the waters 1 nautical...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement during a Senate Finance Committee hearing considering the nomination of Michael Froman to serve as U.S. Trade Representative...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Robert Gregory Bruce, aka Greg Bruce, 46, appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to an Information charging one count of mail fraud and aiding abetting, stemming from a fraud scheme he ran while he served as a Vice President of University...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Joshua Rojas, a/k/a Joshua Ramos, 19, of Woonsocket, and Victor Burgos, a/k/a Fat Boy, 20, of Providence, have been charged in federal court in Providence with witness tampering in connection with a joint Woonsocket Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation into the alleged trafficking of Fentanyl Acetyl analogue, a Schedule 1 controlled substance.
