News from March 2013

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: Trent Martin Was Arrested In Hong Kong Pursuant To A Request From The United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MICHAEL UNDERHILL, 42, of Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to 108 months of imprisonment for distributing narcotics and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior narcotics conviction.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: A sure sign of spring in Denali National Park and Preserve is the opening of the park road beyond park headquarters. Park visitors will be able to drive as far as the Mountain Vista Trailhead, a rest area east of the Savage River Campground, beginning at noon on Sunday, March 31, weather permitting.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: Congressman John Lewis was named a "Hero of History" by National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, for his role as a catalyst in the American Civil Rights movement and as a leader of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights. A brief ceremony was held in Congressman Lewis' office in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana-The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: Frank Dwayne Randolph a/k/a Tubbs, 48, of Pulaski, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury in San Jose indicted Ali Kashani, of San Jose, and Yang Zhao, of El Cerrito, Wednesday with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. Mr. Kashani was also indicted for money laundering.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Carl Murphy, Jr., age 32, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg charging him with two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: Your browser does not support the audio element.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: Help Celebrate the Completion of a Grant-Funded, Five-Year Trail Project!.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Mary Bennett, of Wetumpka, Narendrakumar Patel of Millbrook, of and Eugenia Burks, of Montgomery, were sentenced for their roles in an identity theft and tax fraud scheme. Bennett was sentenced today to 75 months in prison, Patel was sentenced yesterday to 24 months in prison, and...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Madison County man to 30 years and five months in prison for his lead role in a North Alabama marijuana-trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and Madison-Morgan County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force Commander Dewayne McCarver.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged three people as part of a conspiracy to fraudulently take money from funds established to pay claims from individuals and businesses harmed by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Brian Julian Gallardo, 22, of Sherman, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 71 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in December 2012 to one count of possession with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Jhi Michael Reynolds (27, St. Petersburg) to 15 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute in excess of 28 grams of cocaine base. Reynolds pleaded guilty on November 8, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher Young, 18, of Washington, D.C., has pled guilty to a charge of armed robbery stemming from an attack earlier this year in which he stole a dog from a woman at gunpoint, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: A Fairmont City man pled guilty on March 29, 2013, in federal court to being a member of a large cocaine distribution organization, the United States for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Antonio O. Escobar, 27, pled guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess With the Intent to Distribute Cocaine. He also admitted the Forfeiture Allegation contained in the Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Angel Andrew Gomez-Garcia, 41, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawfully reentering the United States after being deported following his conviction for aggravated sexual battery.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: Agrees to Pay Full Restitution of $103,511.76.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2013
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will reopen the Grandview Ridge and Animas City Mountain areas and the City of Durango will reopen Twin Buttes open space for public access on Monday, April 1.