News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Jesse Lee Bell, age 39, of Randallstown, Maryland, today to one year in prison, followed by six months of community confinement, and three years of supervised release, for assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a former Alabama State Trooper to one year in prison for depriving a woman of her civil rights by coercing her to perform sex acts, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: A Sioux City couple who conspired to distribute methamphetamine were sentenced on March 27 and 28, 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Dr. Coburn released the following letter exchanged between New York City Police Department Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly regarding the use of federal Department of Homeland Security grants to pay overtime of local police officers, which would have been restricted under an amendment Dr. Coburn offered to the Continuing Resolution, H.R. 933.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marlo Garcia, also known as “Lupita," 24, was found guilty by a jury today of first-degree murder while armed and other charges in a shooting on Christmas Day 2009 that killed one man and wounded two others, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: TUCSON - On March 27, 2013, Curtis Michael Garcia, 33, of Sells, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 16-1/2 years in prison. Following incarceration, Garcia will be on lifetime supervision with sex offender conditions, including registering as a sex offender. Garcia, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, pleaded guilty on Aug. 31, 2012, to two counts of abusive sexual contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced today that a 26- year-old native and citizen of Mexico has been charged with Illegal Reentry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. BEAUMONT - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales welcomed Reverend William A. Lawson as the guest speaker at a special program commemorating the observance of African American (Black) History in Beaumont today. This year marks two important anniversaries in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: An Indiana man who defrauded Iowa investors and an Iowa business was sentenced on March 27, 2013, to more than eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An owner of a local retail food store has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud and food stamp fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Braintree man was convicted today of stealing credit cards from a mail-sorting facility and using them to commit fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 58-year-old Pasadena, Texas man has been found guilty of investment fraud charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Yonkers, New York, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Tupelo, MS - On March 1, 2013, the Natchez Trace Parkway was required to reduce its annual budget by five percent, in accordance with the sequestration provision of the Budget Control Act of 2011. The effects of this federal law require that each national park absorb this reduction within the remaining months of this fiscal year, which ends September 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- David Miner, formerly of Gatlinburg, Tenn., was convicted today by a federal jury in Knoxville, with one count of impeding or obstructing the administration of the Internal Revenue Laws and two counts of failing to file federal income tax returns. The Honorable Thomas Phillips, U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Everglades National Park has extended the deadline for applications to exhibit artwork in the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center Gallery. The park is especially seeking local amateur artists using a variety of media that focus on the natural and cultural beauty of the Everglades. The park...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited United Potato Distributors Inc., doing business as United Distributors Inc., of Los Angeles, Calif., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Weldon Emanuwell Gordon, age 35, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: The public is invited to join park rangers and volunteers for programs at Congaree National Park in April and May. All programs are free.
