News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Allegedly Used Club For AA Meetings And Drug Distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Shakeel Jeffcoat, age 28, of Wilmington, Delaware, with one count of passing counterfeit currency and one count of possessing counterfeit currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Court Judge Richard Voorhees sentenced today Elisa Annette Baker, 44, of Hickory, N.C., to serve 120 months in prison for conspiracy with intent to distribute prescription drugs, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Baker was also ordered to serve three years under court supervision once she serves her prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Earlier today, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General released a report entitled “Review of the Operations of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division." The report examines the Voting Section’s enforcement of federal voting rights laws from 2001 to 2012. Following the release of the report, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued this statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Jesse Ray Delgado, 47, of Boise, Idaho, and Dennis James, 47, of San Pablo, California, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The defendants were charged in two separate cases.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., unveiled a discussion draft of Freedom of Information Act Reform legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Kevin Ray Apple, age 38, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Chief District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken on March 8, 2013 and pled guilty to Assaulting a Federal Officer. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 20 years of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: SEATTLE - -The owner of a South Seattle non-profit “club" that hosted Alcoholics Anonymous meetings was arrested last night for illegal distribution of oxycodone. The investigation revealed that the Nomadian Community Resource (NCRC) on South Orcas Street in Seattle was a hub for prescription drug dealing. Michael Martin Shepard, 64, was arrested last night and will appear this afternoon at 2:30 in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A45-year-old Lufkin, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A Wayzata-based company has entered into an agreement with the federal government to settle allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act by filling a wetland near the Elk River outside of Sauk Rapids without complying with the terms of a permit issued by the United States Army Corps of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joshua Stewart, 24, of Webster, N.Y., who was convicted of enticing a minor to perform sexual acts, was sentenced to 87 months in prison and 20 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on March 12, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, the following individuals were arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: This afternoon, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) participated in a bipartisan Gun Trafficking Forum put on by Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Congressman Scott Rigell (R-Va.), and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.). Following the forum, Rep. Conyers issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: A one-count information was filed today against Troy Czukoski, 42, of Exton, PA, charging that on Oct. 18, 2012, he possessed more than 150 but less than 300 images of children engaging in sexually explicit conduct, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. At the time of the investigation, Czukoski was serving as Principal of the Springton Lake Middle School in the Rose Tree Media School District in Delaware County.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Kīlauea Volcano's summit eruption within Halema'uma'u Crater marks its fifth year of continuous activity on Tuesday, March 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 37-year-old man from Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced today to 14 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to federal charges of transportation 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 Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Contact: Superintendent. Kimberly, Oregon - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 148,002 visitors to John Day Fossil Beds National Monumentspent $7,303,000in communities surrounding the park.This spending supported 91 jobs in the local area, including Grant and Wheeler Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Tulsa, Oklahoma - United States Attorney Danny C. Williams, Sr., announced today that six people were sentenced Monday and Tuesday following their guilty pleas to human-trafficking-related charges, including sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, and coercion and enticement to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
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