News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Antonio Abraham Cruz-Cruz, age 26, a Mexican citizen residing in Adelphi, Maryland; and Henry Ramos Agustin, age 37, a Guatemalan citizen residing in Cambridge, Maryland, on charges relating to the sale and transfer of fraudulent identification...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Patchogue, NY - Fire Island National Seashore issued a statement on Saturday regarding the status of the breach on Fire Island at Old Inlet, where water has flowed freely between the ocean and the bay since Oct. 29, 2012 as a result of Hurricane Sandy. "The National Park Service will support the decision...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Juan De Dios Rodriguez, a 34-year-old Mexican National has been handed a 60-month-term of federal imprisonment for transporting an illegal alien, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that our nation's Wounded Warriors will be allowed expedited screening as they travel through our nation's airports. Starting immediately, Wounded Warriors, when scheduled in advance with TSA, will be escorted through the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in Fergus Falls, a 49-year-old man from the central Minnesota community of Garfield was sentenced for constructing a road through land he knew was a federally protected wetland basin. United States Magistrate Judge Leo I. Brisbois sentenced James Bosek to two...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, NH - James Nelson Lund, 37, of Tilton & Berlin, NH, and formerly of Vassalboro, ME, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 21 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Business owners forced laborers to work for free while collecting unemployment insurance. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Kevin Romando Johnson, 39, of Lansing, was sentenced to four years in prison; his mother...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on March 27, 2013, Justin Linder, 25, Twin Buttes, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. Linder pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 15, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: A man who robbed a bank in Sioux City, Iowa pled guilty March 27, 2013, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Michael P. Boyer, age 47 of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on March 27, 2013, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 12 months and one day in prison by United States District Senior Judge Lyle E. Strom, for failing to register as a sex offender. After his release from prison, Boyer will be required to serve a five year term of supervised release and be registered as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with Summit County, Ohio, and related parties, which if approved by the court, will resolve a sex discrimination lawsuit in which the United States intervened in June 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: ALICIA A. G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and CNMI, announced that a verdict was reached on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, after a two-week jury trial in the criminal case of U.S. v. Jae Chul Shin, Criminal Case No. 12-00041.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Nine defendants were sentenced over the last two days for their roles in illegally distributing controlled substances to customers who bought the drugs from illicit Internet pharmacies, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano announced. The defendants were also collectively ordered to forfeit more than $94 million in illegal proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Come take a walk on the virtual wild side and explore one of the most popular hikes available at Grand Teton National Park. A new web-based, interactive program takes viewers on an 'eHike' around String Lake, one of the six glacial lakes that grace the foot of the Teton Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Alano Christobo Blanco, 46, of Newport News, Va., was sentenced today to 235 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for his participation in a complex drug trafficking organization operating between New York, California, and the Virginia Peninsula.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - James Brown, 50, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Pocatello to one count of possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Brown was charged by information on Feb. 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two Anchorage residents were sentenced on five counts of wire fraud and one count of filing a false income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Oneil Marlon Martin, a/k/a David Lawrence Motta (33, Sarasota) to 66 months in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Martin to forfeit two firearms and assorted ammunition which were used, or intended to be used, to facilitate the offenses. Martin pleaded guilty on Jan. 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Blue Springs husband and wife and 13 Kansas City, Mo., residents are among 20 defendants who have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in an $814,000 conspiracy to distribute PCP, cocaine and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: In Del Rio, 62-year-old Jose Luis Aguilar of Eagle Pass, TX, faces up to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty this morning to aiding and abetting bulk cash smuggling announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
