News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - 10 men set for trial this week on charges related to the armed bank robberies of several area financial institutions, including one involving the shooting of an off-duty sergeant, have now been convicted, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: A long-term interagency program to monitor grizzly bear population trends in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem will continue at Glacier National Park this year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on May 30, 2013, Maureen Red Stone, 30, Cannonball, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Red Stone pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 18, 2012.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park recently recognized two members of the staff for outstanding performance. Park volunteer Norman Paul of Littlestown, Pa., received an award for his outstanding contributions to the care of artifacts and archival items in Gettysburg’s museum collections. D. Scott Hartwig...
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: The Hurricane Ridge Road will close for five hours each morning for up to eight days to allow the Olympic National Park road crew to complete annual ditch clearing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 23 years in federal prison for placing a backpack that he thought contained a powerful explosive device into a curbside trash container on a crowded street near Wrigley Field in September 2010. The defendant, SAMI SAMIR HASSOUN, pleaded guilty in April 2012...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Mills last week sentenced Patrick B. Wallace, 44, of Springfield, Ill., to 288 months (24 years) in prison for dealing crack cocaine in late 2011, to be followed by a consecutive 60 months (5 years) sentence for revocation of supervised release. At the time of the 2011 offense, Wallace remained under supervised release for a prior federal conviction, in 1994, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: For Possession of Child Pornography. WASHINGTON - Kevin Boteler, 56, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced today to two years in prison on a federal charge of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER DOBOSZ, 30, of Middletown, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally selling firearms. DOBOSZ was ordered to serve the first six months of his supervised release in home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Chief Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Vendel Alvin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Cheryll Randell, 51, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on May 29, 2013, for embezzling, stealing, and purloining goods and property of the United States. Randell was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received two years of probation, was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment and restitution in the amount of $15,775.00. This case was investigated by the U.S. Air Force Security Police.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: CATHY ROSS VINNETT, 46, and her daughter, LASHANDA RUTH VINNETT, 29, of Destrehan, Louisiana, were indicted today for conspiracy to defraud the United States and, specifically, the Internal Revenue Service, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA- Donyel James Fitts, 28, of Sneads, pled guilty yesterday in federal court to three criminal charges relating to the production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Vincent Hernandez, 31, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, possession of a firearm in furtherance of the drug conspiracy and being a felon in possession of a gun. Judge Motz enhanced Hernandez’s sentence upon finding that he has a prior felony conviction for a drug offense.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart today announced that MANSSOR ARBABSIAR, a/k/a “Mansour Arbabsiar," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison for participating in a plot to murder the SaudiArabian Ambassador to the U.S., while the Ambassador was in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Vincent Hernandez, age 31, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, possession of a firearm in furtherance of the drug conspiracy and being a felon in possession of a gun. Judge Motz enhanced Hernandez’s sentence upon finding that he has a prior felony conviction for a drug offense.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: SIRANUSH TULUMDZHYAN, age 28, of Van Nuys, California, pled guilty today before U. S. District Court Judge Eldon E. Fallon to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. Also pleading guilty today to health care fraud conspiracy was LA MEDICAL GROUP, INC., a Louisiana corporation that operated as a medical clinic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Huby Ramkissoon, age 37, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty today to the May 14, 2008 robbery of Dunay Jewelers, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, before Senior United States District Court Judge James M. Munley.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on May 30, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, ATHALIAH VENUS ALLISON, a 36-year-old resident of Belgrade, pled guilty to (2) counts of wire fraud and (1) count of aggravated identity theft. Sentencing has been set for Sept. 13, 2013. She is currently released on special conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: “Manssor Arbabsiar was an enemy among us - the key conduit for, and facilitator of, a nefarious international plot concocted by members of the Iranian military to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States and as many innocent bystanders as necessary to get the job done. And but for the vigilance...
