News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A fourth man charged in relation to a murder-for-hire conspiracy has been handed a significant federal sentence, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Samuel Walker, 29, of Sharon, Miss., was convicted in November 2012 along with Calvin Epps, following a seven-day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Tusayan/Grand Canyon, AZ - The Halfway Fire remains 100 percent contained and is exhibiting minimal fire behavior. Overnight, no growth or creeping of the fire occurred. Crews will be continuing mop-up work throughout the day and tomorrow. Updated mapping has confirmed the fire is approximately 250 acres in size.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: FBI Says Luis Delagarza is the “Mesh Mask Bandit".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an indispensable tool for diagnosing, treating, and understanding a host of medical conditions, and the technology is evolving rapidly.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Terrell Patton, 21, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 11 years of incarceration on a charge of voluntary manslaughter while armed stemming from a slaying in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. (LEXINGTON, Ky.)- - The owner of pill mills in Georgetown, Ky., and Dry Ridge, Ky., which illegally dispensed prescription drugs to thousands of patients, was found guilty on all 21 counts of drug trafficking, money laundering, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MANOKUS FIELDS, also known as “Fresh," 30, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 97 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for selling crack cocaine. On March 1, 2013, a jury found FIELDS guilty of conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack cocaine").
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Frederick Singletary, 42, of Parkville, Md., pled guilty today to federal charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession 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 DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a staff report entitled, “The Fight to Preserve Religious Liberty: Obamacare’s Assault on a Founding Touchstone of the United States of America." The report outlines the current status of pending litigation related to requirements...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - This week, U.S. District Judge Michael P. McCuskey sentenced Frank P. Sutton, 26, of Danville, Ill., to 151 months (12years, 7 months) in prison for robbing a Danville bank last year. At sentencing, on Tuesday, June 18, Sutton was also ordered to pay restitution to the bank in the amount of $1,340.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: FRUITA, CO - Colorado National Monument will host two listening session in early July designed to foster input from the public about the types of visitor uses, events or activities people want to have at the monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Steven Williams, 47, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 27 years in prison for the June 2012 slaying of Hae Soon Lim, the owner of a Northeast Washington delicatessen, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on June 20, 2013, in Great Falls, after a federal district court trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, LELAND NEIL LAPIER, JR., a 28-year-old resident of Great Falls, was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sentencing is set for Sept. 24, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Natchez, Miss - Stephanie Odoms, 44, of Hermanville, Howard Jackson, 52, of Hermanville, and Shandy Davis, 37, of Port Gibson, were sentenced to federal prison on charges related to a tax fraud conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Gabriel L. Grchan, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation New Orleans Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: The Department of Interior and Biscayne National Park are applauding the recent action of the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board in voting to adopt the water reservation for the Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands (BBCW) Project, Phase 1, which benefits Biscayne National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. DETROIT - An indictment was unsealed today charging Dr. Hussein “Sam" Awada, 43, and Dr. Luis Collazo, 53, with the illegal distribution of prescription drugs and health care fraud, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a staff report entitled, “The Fight to Preserve Religious Liberty: Obamacare’s Assault on a Founding Touchstone of the United States of America." The report outlines the current status of pending litigation related to requirements...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a State of Washington resident was indicted by the federal grand jury in Anchorage, Alaska, for making false records under federal fish and wildlife laws, and making false material statements to a federal government agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Elvy Gomez, 39, of Providence, a former employee of Bank of America, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to embezzling more than $95,000 from stolen federal tax checks. Gomez admitted to the court that he used his position at the bank to access a dormant checking account...
