News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nielson McKensley, 49, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with aiding and abetting an armed robbery in Indian Country. Under the terms of his plea agreement, McKensley will be sentenced to a term of 46 to 57 months in prison.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service announced the results of its initial implementation of the White-tailed Deer Management Plan for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. As part of the plan, federal marksmen using non-lead ammunition and working under carefully controlled conditions...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Virginia. Monday, May 6, 2013. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - George Washington Crane, V, 47, of Leesburg, Va., was arrested on Friday, and made his initial appearance in court today, on charges of conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone resulting in the 2010...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: MICHAEL D. BRUMFIELD, age 45, a resident of Hammond, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count indictment filed May 3, 2013 for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, a Schedule II narcotic drug controlled substance, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. The defendant was arrested this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 1, 2013, and April 15, 2013, defendants Juan Jose Parra-Labrador, 24, Sergio Sarabia-Sarabia, 25, and Uriel Parra-Lerma, 25, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborgto 10 years in prison for their roles in holding 21 illegal aliens hostage in January 2012, after pleading...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: Today the Senate voted 69 to 27 to pass S. 336, the “Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013." This legislation would give states the option to require the collection of sales and use taxes already owed under state law by out-of-state businesses, rather than rely on consumers to remit those taxes to the states...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 49-year-old Minneapolis man, previously dubbed by law enforcement as “the man-in-black bank robber," pleaded guilty to five bank robberies that occurred in Minnesota between March 9, 2011, and Jan. 3, 2012. In entering his plea, Mark Edward...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Middle District of North Carolina. Monday, May 6, 2013. Medicaid fraud nets prison term, fine and restitution. GREENSBORO, N.C. - Sassan Bassiri, DDS, age 46, has been sentenced to five months in prison followed by five months home confinement, announced Ripley...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: DUBLIN, GA - A federal indictment has charged six defendants with a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. The indictment results from a joint investigation by the ATF and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO).
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - On Friday, May 3, a Pittsburgh man was sentenced in federal court to 24 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - John Venizelos, also known as “John V," “Big Man" and “John from Staten Island," an alleged associate of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, pled guilty earlier today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan M. Azrack at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to drug trafficking charges contained in a superseding indictment returned on April 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three men, all from Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to charges stemming from a gun battle in Northeast Washington in which two people were killed, including a 15-year-old innocent bystander, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Lynn Carol Williams, age 56, of Middle River, Maryland today to six months in prison, followed by six months of home detention with electronic monitoring as part of three years of supervised release, for wire fraud in connection with...
By State Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced today the Syria Stabilization Act of 2013, legislation that plans for a post-Assad Syria by providing humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people, while providing limited lethal and non-lethal weapons to vetted Syrian groups.
By Homeland Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE), Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee Chairwoman Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), and House Committee on Oversight and Government...
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: Paul Lewis from the University of Tennessee and Big South Fork astronomy volunteers will be at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area on Saturday, May 18, 2013, for two special astronomy programs. A telescope with a sun filter will be positioned in front of the Bandy Creek Visitor Center from...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. -A resident of Fairview, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal income tax laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Martin man convicted of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance was sentenced on April 16, 2013, by Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken. Grover Lee Horned Antelope, age 40, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment, 4 years' supervised release, and a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Four defendants who swindled investors out of millions of dollars in three separate Ponzi fraud schemes were each sentenced to federal prison terms between 5 and 10 years and ordered to pay full restitution to their victims. The cases demonstrate that federal law enforcement agencies continue...
By US DOT Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released Gina McCarthy's responses to questions he submitted for the record following her April 8 hearing. McCarthy who is nominated to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faces the Committee vote, the next step in her confirmation process, on Thursday.
