News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The owner of a meat distribution company was sentenced today to four months in prison and four months of house arrest for evading taxes related to income diverted from his companies for his personal use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Two former officers with the Houston Police Department (HPD) have been convicted of conspiracy to violate the Hobbs Act, also known as extortion under color of official right, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Emerson Canizales, 27, of Kingwood, and Michael Miceli, 27, of Humble, were arrested in January 2013 and pleaded guilty just a short time ago before U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota man was indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting a woman, fracturing bones in her neck and nose.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Superintendent Pat Kenney announced today the closure of the beach on the very west end of Shackleford Banks along Beaufort Inlet to swimming. “No Swimming" signs along the beach will mark the closed area. Strong currents have made this closure necessary for visitor safety. Ocean and sound beaches away from the inlet remain open to swimming.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Due to the continued extreme fire danger, extended weather forecast and current level of fire activity in the State of Colorado, park officials are reminding visitors of existing regulations pertaining to the use of fires that are always in place within Rocky Mountain National Park, along with a new...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal jury convicted Hope K. Kantete today for her role as the leader of a ring that was responsible for shipping dozens of stolen and carjacked luxury cars and SUVs worth more than $1 million from New Jersey to Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The chief executive officer of a Virginia-based security contracting firm was sentenced today to serve 48 months in prison for serving as a figurehead owner of a front company created to obtain more than $31 million intended for disadvantaged small businesses through the Small Business...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: The public is invited to join park rangers and volunteers for programs at Congaree National Park in July. All programs are free and begin at the Harry Hampton Visitor Center. Remember that summer weather has arrived at Congaree. Please check the forecast before heading out. Visitors are encouraged to bring water, sunscreen and bug spray on all summer programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Reehahlio Carroll, 21, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Navajo, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 40 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his second degree murder conviction. Carroll also was ordered to pay $8,992.25 in restitution. Carroll’s...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: On June 26, 2013, Michael A. Lovell, 37, of Shawneetown, IL, plead guilty in United States District Court in Benton to a three-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine-making materials, and being a felon in possession of ammunition, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Due to heavy rainfallon Thursday and Friday, the Delaware River level as measured at Montague, New Jersey is currently 6.82 feet. It is predicted to rise to 12.5 feet by 2 am on Saturday, June 29, which is several vertical feet higher than normal for this time of the year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Allison C. Lerner, Inspector General, National Science Foundation (NSF), and Ronald Verrochio, Postal Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Miami Division, announced that Alexander Lorin Davis, 40...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Calvin Epps, 29, of Hopkins, S.C., has been ordered to prison in a drug conspiracy that has also resulted in the conviction of others in a conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Epps, 29, of Hopkins, S.C., was convicted in November...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Two Brockton men were indicted yesterday, charged with a federal firearms violation. The indictment resulted from federal, state and local authorities’ efforts to reduce violence and drug trafficking in the Brockton area by identifying and investigating individuals involved in these criminal activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: 92 defendants have been charged to date in Operation Sledgehammer I-VI.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the following statement after the announcement that Steve Linick has been nominated to be the State Department Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On June 27, 2013, Anthony Boyd Conklin, age 36, formerly from Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 240 months of imprisonment, after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Conklin was also ordered to serve ten years of supervised release and pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, June 28, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS -Todd L. Smith, 50, of Columbus was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to eight years of imprisonment, consisting of seven years in federal prison followed...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: he park visitor that died Wednesday, June 26, in Glacier National Park, has been identified as 64-year old Charles Fred Huseman from Packwood, Washington. Huseman died from bodily trauma sustained in a fall in the Rim Rock area, about a mile west of Logan Pass.
