News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County has been sentenced in federal court to one year and a day of incarceration on his conviction of making and passing counterfeit money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced a new bipartisan version of his legislation to combat rampant seafood fraud, a nationwide epidemic that cheats fishermen and consumers, while posing health risks to pregnant mothers and others. The legislation responds to studies showing most recently...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Charges of social security fraud against a Newburyport man were unsealed today in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang and longtime leader of the Puente-13 criminal street gang was sentenced on March 6, 2013, to life in federal prison after being convicted last year on federal racketeering charges that included a brutal stabbing designed to deter victims from cooperating with law enforcement and plotting to murder members of a rival gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal grand jury has handed down a superseding indictment in the case involving the former task force dubbed the “Panama Unit," United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
News Release: RICHLAND - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, in conjunction with the United States Department of Justice's Civil Division, announced today that Colorado-based CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc. (CHG) and its parent company, CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. (CH2M Hill)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida- United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of an indictment charging Jose Miguel Figueroa (41, Fort Myers) with three separate bank robberies in Lee County, Florida. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each bank robbery. The indictment also notifies Figueroa that the United States intends to forfeit the proceeds of each of the three offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, a 26-year-old Robbinsdale man was sentenced for conspiring to distribute approximately 249 grams of cocaine. United States District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson sentenced Brian Funtaneous Mack to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. He was indicted on July 23, 2012, along with McCelendon Miller, age 26, and Kelly Suzette Chase, age 28, both of Burnsville.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Two individuals - charged in a federal felony criminal complaint with sex trafficking a child, by force, fraud or coercion - made their initial appearance in federal court Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 1st, 2012, a federal grand jury returned two separate indictments against 83 individuals as a result of two investigations led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD), announced today by United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Wilbert T. Hughes, Jr., age 39, of Youngstown, Ohio, with one count of possession with the intent to distribute 28 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine base (crack) and one count of felon in possession of ammunition, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Raul Mendoza, age 48, Julia Castillo-Caraveo, age 28, both of Denver, Colorado, and Isidro Noe Mendoza-Ortiz, age 25, of Thornton, Colorado were arrested this morning for structuring and money laundering, the United States Attorney’s Office, IRS Criminal Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Agency...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: It has been 500 years since Ponce de Leon discovered himself in Florida, and this month's iteration of Biscayne National Park's Family Fun Fest will focus on highlights of each of the past five centuries reflected in the park's 10,000 year history. The free event, dubbed 500 Years in the Sunshine State...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. John Mica (FL-07), the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, will conduct a field hearing in Miami, Fla. on Friday, March 8th to continue his examination of underperforming or vacant properties owned by the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, three federal detainees were indicted for assaulting two correctional officers at the Sherburne County Jail. Ira Lee Goodwin, age 26, Michael Scott Luedtke, age 25, and Edward McCabe Robinson, age 28, were specifically charged with one count of conspiracy to assault persons assisting federal law enforcement officers and two counts of assault upon a person assisting federal law enforcement officers.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Living History volunteers will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the forming of the St. Louis Corps of Artillerists who helped defend the Mississippi Valley from the British during the War of 1812 with a reenactment of the Corps' stories on the Gateway Arch grounds. the FREE event will feature hourly 18th century musket and cannon drills and firing demonstrations.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: In many areas of science and technology, American researchers arguably remain the best in the world; however, our margin of leadership is neitheras wide nor as clear cut as it has been in the past.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, March 5, 2013 – USDA today released the following statement correcting inaccurate reporting on sequester related emails regarding the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS): "Several reports today have misrepresented a USDA effort to explain the impacts of budget cuts to an employee ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama's commitment to honoring a nation-to-nation relationship with Indian Country, four cabinet-level departments today joined the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in releasing an action plan to strengthen the protection of Indian sacred sites and provide greater ...
