News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Glenn Anthony Thompson, age 45, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, and for possession of a gun in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville man was charged by a federal grand jury this week, with robbing four banks, in Jefferson County, Kentucky, during a two week period, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
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 faces at least 55 years in prison after being convicted in federal court of using firearms to rob two Springfield banks and a drugstore in November 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Weylin O. Rodriguez (29, Orlando) to life plus 5 years in federal prison for sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud and coercion; using a firearm in furtherance of a sex trafficking crime; transporting minors over state lines for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jesus Lopez Cabrera, of Haileah, Fla., has been convicted by a federal jury verdict after a three-day trial of conspiracy to transport and the transportation of undocumented persons, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The verdict was announced earlier today in U.S. District Judge Diana Saldaña’s court after less than two hours of deliberation.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - One year ago today, President Obama stood in front of a pile of steel pipes in Cushing, Oklahoma, and endorsed the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, calling for action to cut red tape and make the project a priority. But despite taking credit for this fraction of the pipeline’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Daishawn Goodson, a former corrections officer, was sentenced today to eight months home detention for accepting money to bring contraband into a District of Columbia correctional facility, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Remus Octavris Henning, 34, of Harrisburg, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to charges that he possessed crack cocaine with intent to distribute it and that he carried a loaded.45 caliber firearm during and in relation to that crime, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The offenses occurred on July 20, 2012, in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the married owner/director and chief executive officer of a Kansas City, Mo., medical clinic pleaded guilty in federal court today to health care fraud and filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ELLA VOSKRESENSKIY pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to defraud programs administered by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. (the “Claims Conference"), established...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - At approximately 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a satellite phone report from a private river trip that a woman's body had been found at river mile 165, which is located near Tuckup Canyon. Due to pending darkness, rangers were unable to fly to the scene until the following morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday afternoon a federal judge sentenced Abraham Sedillo, 26, of Albuquerque, N.M., to 51 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his federal armed robbery conviction. Sedillo also was ordered to make full restitution to the victim of the armed robbery. Sedillo’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: David Levy Also Convicted Of International Money Laundering Scheme.
By Commerce 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 DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- The Department of Energy today announced that approximately $40 million from its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will be made available for two new programs that will engage our country’s brightest scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to develop technologies that...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, March 22, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Darnell J. Harris, 25 and his sister Mariah Harris, 19, both of Canal Winchester, Ohio have been arrested based on charges in a federal indictment alleging...
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, today introduced an amendment to the Senate budget resolution to prohibit the regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. unless and until China, India and Russia implement similar reductions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA- Buddy Lamar Redden, 65, of Pensacola,was indicted today by the federal grand jury for six sales of firearms to convicted felons and for dealing in firearms without a license. The seven-count indictment was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Maria V. Constantinou (40, Orlando) with two counts of false use of a seal of a department of the United States of America. If convicted, Constantinou faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison on each count.
By EPA 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...
