News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Wayne Glymph, age 46, of Fort Washington, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute phencyclidine (PCP), cocaine base and heroin; and being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Janell Shaw, also known as Janelle Kara Shaw, 22, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison for assaulting a Deputy United States Marshal, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Michael Hughes, U.S. Marshal for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: On March 22, 2013, Mitchell R. Owens, 32, of Herrin, IL, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Heriberto Martinez (a.k.a. “Boxer") And Carlos Ortega (a.k.a. “Silencio") Participated In The Murder Of 4 Individuals On Queens And Long Island As Part Of Their Membership In The Gang.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Congaree National Park is seeking your help to design a new Junior Ranger patch. The winning design will be embroidered on a patch, which will be given to young visitors who complete the park's Junior Ranger program books. Congaree has Junior Ranger books for three age groups available at the Harry Hampton Visitor Center and on the park's website:ages 6 and under, ages 7-10, and ages 11 and up.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding Budget resolution amendment votes on Keystone XL Pipeline and a Carbon Tax...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man has been convicted in federal court of illegally possessing firearms.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Mister Bee Potato Chip Company, of Parkersburg, W.Va., for failure to pay for produce.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: In early 2012, a major road construction project began on the lower section of Bear Lake Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. Much work was completed in 2012, however much remains to be done. Bear Lake Road is one of the most popular scenic roads in Rocky Mountain National Park and provides year-round visitor access to a variety of wonderful recreational opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JARED BREWTON was sentenced in White Plains federal court to 41 months in prison for his participation in a fraudulent tax refund scheme involving identity theft, subscribing to false and fraudulent...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his intention to leave the Commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a former youth minister and Half Back Media owner Eric Michael Manuel, 23, of Lafayette was sentenced to 27 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity. Manuel also is required to complete 15 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Former El Paso County Judge Dolores Briones, 61, was sentenced this morning in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to embezzle federal program funds, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales for the District of New Mexico and Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan of the El Paso Division of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Fernando Grijalva-Marquez, 30, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Greenville, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court on March 22, 2013, to a total of 27 months in prison, the sentence to run consecutive (in addition) to his current sentence, on an indictment charging him...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Fraud Extended to United Kingdom, Spain, Lebanon, France and the United Arab Emirates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 40-year-old man was sentenced for running a prostitution operation in the Twin Cities that exploited underage and young women. United States District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced Arthur James Chappell, no known address, to 336 months in federal...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: ASHFORD, WA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that just over one million visitors to Mount Rainier National Park spent $33M in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported approximately 450 jobs in the local area, not including the 100-110 permanent and 180-200 seasonal staff working directly for the park and another 450-500 commercial concessions service employees working in or near the park.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement on the third anniversary of the enactment of the Affordable Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier this week in federal court, a 23-year-old felon from St. Paul was indicted for possessing a nine-millimeter, semi-automatic pistol. On March 19, 2013, Virgil Lee Kirkwood was charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Artist Photographer Mary Keithan will be showing color nature photographs at the Ernest F. Coe Visitors Center Gallery during the month of April 2013. The exhibition is the result of photographs taken in 2012 while pursuing her passion under the auspices of the Artist-in-Residency-in-the- Everglades (AIRlE) program at Everglades National Park.
