News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Last week in federal court, a 27-year-old Blackduck man was indicted in connection with the Oct. 23, 2012, death of a young woman in Redby, Minnesota. On March 19, 2013, Dustin Michael Johnson was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced March 14, 2013, to more than six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: (PROVIDENCE, R.I.) - - Abel Perez, 31, of Cranston, was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in federal prison for trafficking heroin, being a felon in possession of a firearm and for use of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, announced John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former real estate developer who attempted to convert hotels in Chicago, Miami Beach, Fla., and elsewhere into condominium-hotels was arraigned today on federal tax evasion charges following his extradition from Italy. The defendant, DAVID R. FALOR, who was a principal in The Falor Companies...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Samuel P. Wadsworth, 41, a resident of Houston County, Alabama, was sentenced to federal prison for a federal felony conviction for failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joseph Schmidt, 30, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, a fine of $5,000,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Christopher J. Bernards, age 32, of Cincinnati, Ohio appeared before U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier on March 22, 2013 and pled guilty to an Indictment that charged him with Failure to Pay Legal Child Support. The maximum penalty upon conviction...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Richard Johnson, age 49, was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 13, 2013 for Sexual Abuse of a Minor. Johnson appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on March 20, 2013 and pled not guilty to the Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Dyrell Robert Swinson, 20, of Tacoma, Washington, was sentenced this morning in United States District Court to 57 months in federal prison for his role in a child sex trafficking case, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Swinson to be supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Robert Lee Jones, age 26, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, today to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute phencyclidine (PCP), possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine; being a felon in possession of a firearm; and conspiracy to use and carry a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: A man who made a false statement to a U.S. Postal Inspector conducting a fraud investigation was sentenced today to more than one year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Defendant Attempted To Travel To Pakistan To Join A Violent Jihadist Group.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmalee, South Dakota man convicted of Assault on a Federal Officer was sentenced on March 18, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, United States District Court. Richard Wolf Guts, a/k/a Gabriel Broken Leg, age 27, was sentenced to time served and 2 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $100 to the Victim Assistance Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Sentence Includes Mandatory Consecutive Sentence For.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry accepting their proposal for a meeting to discuss the requests Warren and Cummings have made for documents relating to mortgage servicer abuses identified as part of the Independent Foreclosure Review.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 51-year-old Minneapolis felon was sentenced for possessing a.40-caliber pistol. United States District Court Judge Ann D. Montgomery sentenced Ronnie James Woods to 180 months in federal prison on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Woods was indicted on June 19, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Perhamn, Minnesota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Married couple James R. Dixon and Sharon C. Dixon have each been ordered to prison for committing separate tax crimes in two separately-filed, but related cases, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation. Both entered guilty pleas on their respective cases in October 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Ryan Gene Hansen, 31, from Algona, Iowa, has been charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The charges are contained in a complaint filed on March 18, 2013, in United States District Court in Sioux City.
