News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EARL BANKS, also known as “E.J.," 22, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Needham woman was sentenced today for defrauding a financial advisory client in connection with a bogus securities investment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that a Charleston man pleaded guilty in federal court for failing to register as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA"). Samuel Bailey Jr., 52, of Charleston, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John Carlin, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ"), announced that MANSSOR ARBABSIAR, a/k/a “Mansour Arbabsiar," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Trussville man in connection with a scheme to collect millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service on false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On May 22, 2013, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned multiple indictments against 12 defendants charged with carjacking and firearms offenses, announced today Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. This is the second...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on May 29, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individual was arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Illinois prison guard living in Arkansas was arrested on federal charges for allegedly illegally selling eight firearms, including five assault rifles, to an individual he knew was a convicted felon because they met when the individual was an inmate and they later remained in contact.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to one count of wire fraud. WILLIAM DORN, 24, who was charged in a superseding indictment along with three other men, admitted that between March 2011 and January 2012 he defrauded large retail chain stores by fraudulently acquiring tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise and returning the items for cash.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Marcus Tunstall, 39, formerly of St. Louis, Illinois, who was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, was sentenced to two years in prison and five years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: For Robbery of Senior Citizen. -Defendant Accosted the Victim in Broad Daylight in Northwest Washington-. WASHINGTON - Reggie Gordon, 29, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 40-month prison term on a charge of robbery for an attack against a senior citizen that took place earlier this year in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: ZUHAIR AMEER HAMED, age 40, and JIHAD HATEM HAMAD, age 27, both residents of Gretna, Louisiana, were charged today with Conspiracy to Bribe an Agent of Local Government in Connection with a Program Receiving Federal Funds in a one-count Bill of Information, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. Mr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Sean R. Berry, Cedar Rapids Police Department Captains Steve O’Konek, Bernie Walther and Tom Jouker, and Cedar Rapids Police Department Lieutenant Craig Furnish announced today the sentencing of Lucas Robinson, age 24, from Cedar Rapids. Robinson was sentenced to 42 years in federal prison for one count of sexual exploitation of children, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - On Tuesday, a federal judge in Las Cruces, N.M., sentenced Basilio Flores, 29, of Carlsbad, N.M., to 78 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Flores’s sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Thomas G. Atteberry, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, and Bridgeport Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett, Jr., announced that MORRIS A. ROBERTS, 42, of Bridgeport, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with delivering a modified hand grenade concealed in a coffee cup to the Bridgeport Police Department in February.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Johnny Davis Antonio, Jr., 22, of Sells, Ariz., was sentenced on May 29, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgensonto 120 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. Antonio pleaded guilty on March 21, 2013, to second degree murder, aiding and abetting.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - While there is controversy between archaeologists regarding the existence of rock art more than 10,000 years old depicting mammoths, that doesn’t prevent Joe Pachak from sharing his rock art discoveries with the public. His lecture is a part of the Four Corners Summer Lecture Series at the Anasazi Heritage Center on Sunday, June 2 at 1 p.m. Museum admission is free throughout the day.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Luchetti, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. Judge Richard J. Arcara to a charge of receipt of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Pacific Northwest Region will partner with the Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD) to develop a Plan of Study for the Willamette River Basin Study aimed at finding collaborative solutions to future water needs in Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - Two former police officers with the Police of Puerto Rico were convicted of attempting to extort a commonwealth defendant and soliciting bribe payments of $50,000, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez of the District of Puerto Rico.
