News from June 2013

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 26, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom, TERRY LYNN BRAINE, a 47-year-old resident of Ashland, pled guilty to domestic assault by a habitual offender. Sentencing has been set for Sept. 25, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Wendell Brown, 51, of Warrenton, Va., was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for distribution of child pornography, 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 26, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: National Park Service News Release. - June 26, 2013. Merrith Baughman 402-223-3514. Celebrate America's Heritage with July 4th Living History Activities at. Homestead National Monument of America. On July 4, 2013, from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. visit the Heritage and Education Centers at Homestead National Monument...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Joseph Moss has been sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison and ordered to pay a $3000 fine and $51,150 in restitution following his guilty plea in January 2013 to one count of income tax evasion, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Four Pittsburgh residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearm and narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Rigoberto Torres-Perez, 30, of Dubois, Idaho, and a Mexican national, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Pocatello for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: A Cleveland Heights man was sentenced to 30 years in priso for seven counts bank robberies and attempting an eighth last year said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: LONDON - A 46 year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in a United Kingdom prison for numerous sexual offenses against children, following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Devon and Cornwall Police in the United Kingdom and the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Lee Coleman, Jr., 40, of Antioch, Tennessee was indicted by a federal grand jury today, announced David Rivera, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The indictment charges Coleman with wire fraud, mail fraud, credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft arising from his operation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Marshall Bradford, 68, of Athens, Georgia, was sentenced today before the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia in Macon, Georgia.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 18 individuals, including the operator of three locations of Kash Tobacco & Novelties in Austin as well as the owner of the Best Foods #2 convenience store and Hang Ten Smoke Shop in San Antonio, for their roles in synthetic cannabinoid distribution...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre today sentenced a former Birmingham real estate lawyer to two years in prison for wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that exceeded $1 million, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement ("DEA"), and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced today a settlement of a civil forfeiture and money laundering lawsuit brought by the United States against the Lebanese Canadian ("LCB") and its assets. The Government’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that David Vazquez (35, Puerto Rico) today pleaded guilty to making false statements to a financial institution. Vazquez faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Four Richland County, IL, men were recently sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine related charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - James Wade Campbell, 32, of Elizabethton, Tenn., was sentenced on June 26, 2013, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 240 months in federal prison. Following the prison sentence he will be subject to eight years of supervised release, under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office. There is no parole in the federal system.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: In some standardized tests, the graders add in a penalty factor for wrong answers to discourage students from randomly guessing. It turns out that there's a lesson here for advanced communications as well. In some experimental communications schemes where information is carried by light pulses containing one or even less than one photon on average, it's better not to guess if you're not sure.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Glacier National Park Rangers are investigating an incident in which a 64-year old man from Washington State died along the Going-to-the-Sun Road near the Rim Rock area, about a mile west of Logan Pass.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Allegations of selling motor vehicle safety inspection licenses and equipment for profit.