News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joanne Beers, age 58, of Monroeton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to a two-year term of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Beers was also ordered to pay $96,185.68 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - David Marrero, a federal inmate in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for tax fraud committed while in prison, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck. Twenty-four months of the sentence imposed will run concurrent with Marrero’s current 10 year federal sentence, and 22 months will run consecutive to his 10 year sentence. Marrero pleaded guilty in December 2012 to filing false claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Samuel Oaks, age 61, of Rootstown, Ohio, with improperly stored high explosives, possession of an unregistered firearm, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Killed Infant Child During Rage Over Crying.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Loaded Firearm, Crack Cocaine Found Stashed Among Children’s Toys.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Kenny Martinez, 25, Richard Thomas Moore, 28, both of Philadelphia, and Fernando Martinez, 33, of Ponce, Puerto Rico, are charged in a one-count indictment, filed today, with conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jess Raymond Young, age 36, of Rosebud, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on March 21, 2013 and pled guilty to Assault on a Federal Officer. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 20 years' imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment, filed today, charges eight people, including two federal prison inmates, with conspiracy to distribute 500 grams of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that federal inmates Jose Cardenas-Covarrubias and Donaciano Contreras-Monje, imprisoned at FCI McKean, initiated the sale of large amounts of methamphetamine to two law enforcement officers posing as Philadelphia drug dealers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three Pittsburgh-area residents were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on March 26, 2013, on charges of violating federal drug and firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced that Kelly Prigmore was indicted on two counts of making and subscribing false federal income tax returns for the years 2006 and 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a year-long undercover investigation resulted in 10 arrests in the Marksville and Alexandria areas on distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. -A Mercer County, N.J., woman today admitted she conspired with Joseph “JoJo" Giorgianni, Charles Hall III and others to illegally distribute oxycodone pain pills, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Michael Henderson pleaded guilty today to obstructing a pending civil rights investigation by tampering with a witness while employed as a Murray County Sheriff’s Captain.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Effective March 1, 2013, Andersonville National Historic Site was required by "sequestration" (a series of automatic, across-the-board permanent spending cuts) to reduce its annual budget by five percent.The park, including Andersonville National Cemetery, must absorb that cut in the remaining seven months of this fiscal year that ends September 30.The federal law imposing sequestration requires that each park take this cut.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: ABILENE, Texas -Kenneth Mark McWilliams, 54, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to 20 years in federal prison for throwing Molotov cocktails onto the roof of a convenience store in Abilene, that resulted in personal injury to his ex-wife when she ran out of the building and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 62-year-old Diboll, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to theft of federal funds in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Thomas Cramer, 43, of Brighton, N.Y., pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of minors before U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a mandatory minimum 10 years in prison, a maximum penalty of life, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of President Obama’s strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible development of the nation’s energy resources, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department’s final plan for encouraging research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and tar sands resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Wroper Kosel, age 25, of Bismarck, North Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on March 26, 2013 and pled guilty to Conversion of Farm Service Agency Mortgaged Property. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 5 years of custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; 3 years of supervised release, and a $100 assessment. Restitution may also be ordered.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Audi Pineda, 39, of Pawtucket, a career offender, was sentenced on Wednesday in U.S. District Court to 120 months in federal prison, having been convicted by federal court jury on Oct. 18, 2012, of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone, and possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone.
