News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Loera, 44, a political consultant and former resident of Albuquerque, N.M., was arrested Friday in Los Angeles, Calif., by the FBI. Loera’s arrest was based on an indictment alleging child pornography charges that was filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the District of...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes: What We Know and What We Want to Know.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The former president of the Las Vegas chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and five years of supervised release, for his guilty plea to conspiracy to possess 10 kilograms of cocaine with the intent to distribute, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found Meriden Police Officer EVAN COSSETTE, 26, guilty of one count of using unreasonable...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSEPH KRIZ, 50, of Wilton, was sentenced on Friday, May 31, by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a Fairfield County mortgage fraud scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced that on May 23, 2013, Cecelia Gayle Shakespeare, aka Cecelia Gayle Ferris, a 28-year-old Northern Arapaho Tribal Member, was charged in an indictment with two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in violation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in a mortgage fraud case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Four Civil War cannons will return to public display at Fort Moultrie on Monday, June 10th after undergoing conservation treatment. Weighing about 15,000 pounds each, they will be lifted onto their new bases by the heavy crane of Parker Rigging Company. Once in place, this will complete the rehabilitation of Fort Moultrie’s Cannon Row.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Keaton Bell, age 24, of Hotchkiss, Colorado, pled guilty late last week before Senior U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to one count of possession of stolen firearms and ammunition, and to one count of possession of machine gun the United States Attorney’s Office, the Eagle County Sheriff’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: “Senator Lautenberg’s passion for public service and his commitment to making life better for everyone have inspired so many of us. From his service in WWII to his extraordinary tenure as our U.S. Senator, he exemplified everything that is great about this country. He was my friend, and I will miss him.".

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that an Atlanta man pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington to distribution of crack cocaine. Jaron Dontae Reed also known as “Ron Ron," 24, stopped by the Smokin’ Aces store that was located in Huntington and sold crack cocaine to...

By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - National Park Service (NPS) biologists found spawning translocated endangered humpback chub (Gila cypha) in Havasu Creek during a recent fisheries monitoring trip that occurred between May 6 and May 15. This is the first time evidence of humpback chub reproduction has been found...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Louis Saunsoci, age 34 of South Sioux City, Nebraska, was sentenced for failing to register as a sex offender. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Saunsoci to 21 months in prison. After his release from prison Saunsoci will begin a 5 year term of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Jury Verdict Returned Thursday June 27, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - On June 5, 2013, Gabriel Tenorio, 30, will appear in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy M. Koenig, on a federal complaint filed on Friday, May 31, 2013, that charges him with robbing a branch of FirstBank Southwest (FBSW) in Amarillo, Texas, last month. Tenorio is currently in custody on state charges. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - William W. Lowery, IV, 44, of Tappahannock, Va., was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment today for violating the Lacey Act by trafficking in illegally-harvested striped bass. After serving his sentence, Lowery will be placed on supervised release for one year. Lowery is prohibited from...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2013
News Release: The search continues for a 28 year-old male subject who failed to surface after diving off a 25-foot-high bluff on theBuffaloRiverFriday afternoon. After an intense effort Friday evening, search efforts were pared down on Saturday due to flood conditions which brought turbid and debris-laden water through...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2013
News Release: A lightning ignited wildfire was discovered in the far western portion of Denali National Park and Preserve on Saturday, June 1. As of June 2, the North Swift Fork fire was 920 acres, 30 percent active and burning in tussock and brush. A small portion of the fire was active in a spruce forest. The fire...

By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2013
News Release: Individual Last Seen on the Afternoon of June 1.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) revealed new testimony from IRS employees in Cincinnati involved with the IRS’s political targeting today on CNN’s State of the Union.