News from March 2013
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee event...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Owned Nightclub Using Korean Nationals To Work As Prostitutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man the U.S. government has identified as a narcotics kingpin and top lieutenant in the Sinaloa Cartel has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Ronald L. Simons, 58, of Vestal, New York, was sentenced today to one year probation and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine by United States Magistrate Judge Christian F. Hummel, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Special-Agent-in-Charge Toni M. Weirauch of the Internal Revenue...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) release of two documents prepared by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) concerning the replacement of steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear plant.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: In recognition of Women's History Month, the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House will host a Junior Ranger program highlighting the efforts of Dr. Dorothy Irene Height as a civil rights leader the day before her birthday March 23, 2013. This event is tailored to this year's Black History Month Theme, "At...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: On February 7, 2013, Detrin C. Spraggins, a 46-year old East St. Louis, Illinois, man pled guilty in United States Federal District Court, in East St. Louis, to Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A jury convicted Tevita Tolutau, age 23, of Salt Lake City, of robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence Thursday afternoon following a four-day trial in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. Tolutau was charged in connection with a Sept. 25, 2008, robbery of a Riverton Walmart store.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Joseph Augustus Reed, 36, of Fairhope, was sentenced in federal court yesterday for his role in the distribution of crack cocaine there. Reed entered a guilty plea to the charge of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in May of 2012. He was sentenced on March 7, 2013, by...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Stephen L. Carraway, 50, of Cahokia, IL, was sentenced to a total term of imprisonment of 36 months in prison, a $2,000 fine and two years of supervised release for the offenses of Conspiracy to Defraud the City of East St. Louis’ Demolition Program and Engaging in a Monetary Transaction over $10,000...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today found the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lied about former Region 8 Administrator James Martin's use of a non-official email account to conduct official business.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Torrell Page, 21, was sentenced today to five years in prison on charges stemming from a robbery in which he and a 17-year-old accomplice targeted seven men in a courtyard in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On March 7, 2013, former Pima County Sheriff’s Deputy Francisco Jimenez, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to five years in prison for conspiring to commit offenses against the United States, namely, theft of government money and attempted possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Daniel C. Alexander, Chief, Boca Raton Police Department, announced yesterday that Senior United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana- The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Harold Moody, 47, of Providence, was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Guy N. Thomas, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) Boston Field Office, and Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Antowaun Lynch, 29, of Washington, D.C., has pled guilty to federal drug and weapons offenses stemming from a search last fall in which he was caught by police with a gun and phencyclidine (PCP), U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: San Francisco, CA- Wondering what "that" project is? Have questions about a plan you heard about or saw on the web? Want to get more INVOLVED in the management of your national parks? Come to an Open House! In San Francisco this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 from 4:30 to 6:30.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Christopher C. Harris, age 46, of St. George, Utah, with wire fraud, money laundering, and failure to file a federal tax return in connection with a scheme to defraud individuals and companies who were trying to purchase large quantities of cement.
