News published on Federal Newswire in March 2013

News from March 2013


BLM Issues Two Lease Modifications for West Elk Mine in Gunnison County

News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management in Colorado issued two lease modifications totaling 1,721 acres for the West Elk Mine to extend mining operations up to three years and recover roughly 10.1 million tons of coal.


Ehrlich Pleads Guilty To Obstruction Of Justice

News Release: Albany, New York - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent-in- Charge Andrew Vale of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announce that David A. Ehrlich, 38, of Cohoes, a former lawyer, pled guilty yesterday to obstruction of justice, as charged in Count 1 of the Indictment filed Dec. 12, 2012. Ehrlich’s guilty plea was entered in an appearance before Chief United States District Judge Gary L. Sharpe in Albany.


Airplane Mechanic Admits Roles In Conspiracy To Falsify Inspections

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joel Stout, 32, of Elizabethtown, PA, pleaded guilty today to participating in a fraud conspiracy involving the unauthorized certification of inspections of aircraft at the Flying Tigers, Inc., a former airplane mechanical repair business in Marietta, PA. Stout’s father, Jay Stout, the...


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gregory Warren Second, 22, a member and resident of the Mescalero Apache Nation, pled guilty this afternoon to sexually abusing a minor under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services.


News Release: A former Toledo medical doctor was sentenced to five years in prison after previously pleading guilty to crimes related to the dispensation of 1,300 pills of Oxycodone and fraudulently billing Medicaid for more than $78,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.


Schuykill County Man Indicted For Producing And Possessing Child Pornography

News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton returned an indictment today charging a Schuykill County man with the production and possession of child pornography.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Reliance, South Dakota man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on March 25, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.


Justice Department Transfers West Dallas Properties To Dallas Area Habitat For Humanity For Demolition And Development

News Release: Properties Were Forfeited Following Successful Prosecution of the Gator Boyz Drug Trafficking and Criminal Street Gang.


News Release: BOSTON - A Medford man was sentenced today for possessing child pornography.


Ringleader Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison in Identity Theft Fraud Scheme Involving over 250 Individual Victims

News Release: Stole the Identities of Doctors Who Applied for Fellowships at Johns Hopkins Hospital Where His Girlfriend Worked.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former manager of the Missouri State University bookstore pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $1.1 million by pocketing the money from the school’s textbook buyback program.


News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - JOE DON JOHNSON, 43, from Midwest City, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve 118 months in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with a Ponzi scheme involving securities fraud, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.


National strategy will help safeguard fish, wildlife and plants in a changing climate

News Release: Fish, wildlife, and plant resources provide important benefits and services to Americans every day, including jobs, income, food, clean water and air, building materials, storm protection, tourism and recreation. For example, hunting, fishing and other wildlife-related recreation contribute an estimated...


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Rae Jean Araujo Cota, a/k/a Rae Jean Slides Off, age 36, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on March 22, 2013 and pled guilty to the Superseding Information that charged her with two counts of Assault...


Mission Man Indicted For Sexual Abuse

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse.


Moore Man Who Stole Veteran Grave Markers From Tribal Cemetary To Sell For Salvage Will Serve Prison Time

News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announced that JASON P. PARAS, 33, of Moore, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve four months in prison for the theft of two grave markers from a Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Intertribal Cemetery. Paras was charged on the federal court’s Indian country misdemeanor docket on Sept. 20, 2012, and pled guilty on Oct. 18, 2012.


News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Freshco Foodservice Inc., of Portland, Ore., for failure to pay for produce.


Chairman Carper Statement on Appointment of Julia Pierson as new U.S. Secret Service Director

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement on President Obama’s appointment of Julia Pierson to be Director of the U.S. Secret Service...


North Carolina Women Sentenced For Dealing Meth In East Texas

News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two North Carolina women have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.


Secretary Vilsack Launches USDA "StrikeForce" Initiative to Boost Rural Economic Growth and Opportunity

News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina, March 26, 2013-Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will launch its "StrikeForce" initiative in 10 additional states, including South Carolina. The primary goal of the StrikeForce initiative is to increase partnership with...