News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Homestead, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: TUSKEGEE, AL-To celebrate the importance of historic preservation, the National Park Service will offer Tuskegee University campus tours on May 17, 18, 24 & 25 at 10:30 a.m.The focus will be on those buildings constructed in the early years of Tuskegee Institute during the Booker T. Washington administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was charged yesterday with making extortionate.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. sentenced Joel Torres (41, Apopka) to 40 months in federal prison for money laundering and failing to file IRS Forms 8300 (a report required for cash purchases over $10,000). A federal jury found Torres guilty On Dec. 3, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that three members of the Pennsylvania branch of the Almighty Renegade Gangsta (“ARG") Bloods gang who were involved in the distribution of heroin, crack cocaine and marijuana in Columbia, Northumberland, and Luzerne Counties pleaded guilty today in federal court in Williamsport before U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two former employees at the Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany (MCLB-Albany) have pleaded guilty to receiving bribes related to a scheme to funnel freight hauling business to a local transportation company resulting in the loss of millions of dollars to the United States government, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: TUSKEGEE, AL - Join the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) and become an important member of a cadre of dedicated individuals who work and play in the national parks. As a member of the Youth Conservation Corps you will personally have a role in protecting the nation's precious resources.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Clarence Donya Hicks was arraigned today on a federal indictment charging him with using stolen identities to file false federal income tax returns, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. The indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: DETROIT, MI - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced today the settlement of its lawsuit against the Golden Corral restaurant in Westland, Michigan, which alleged that the owners and operators of the Golden Corral violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying service to a mother and her minor children based on the appearance of the children’s skin due to a genetic skin disorder.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on their assessment of the results of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) reader...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The Justice Department announced today that Oregon developer David Montagne and others affiliated with him have agreed to pay $80,000 and remove accessibility barriers at Gateway Village, a 275 unit apartment complex in Salem, Oregon, to settle a lawsuit alleging that they had violated the Fair Housing Act by building the complex with steps and other features that made it inaccessible to persons with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: A marijuana user who unlawfully possessed a gun with an obliterated serial number was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Duane Crithfield (65) and Stephen Donaldson, Sr. (67) with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Esgar Escamella Estrella, 29, of Morristown, Tenn., was sentenced on May 7, 2013, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 84 months in federal prison for his convictions of participation in a cocaine conspiracy and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense in Morristown, Tenn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Penn Hills man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Justice Department announced that former Sheriff of Wilcox County, Ga., Stacy Bloodsworth was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting an inmate inside the Wilcox County Jail and for conspiring to cover up the assault. Four other people have also been sentenced for their...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Rahway, N.J., man who was the vice principal at Carteret High School admitted today that he possessed child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Investigation And Indictment Alleges Complex Interstate Conspiracy Which.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Robert Starcher traded six stolen firearms for an SUV.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Officials with Homeland Security Agencies Allegedly Took Payments of up to $10,000.
