News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Donald George Cornelius, 30, of Russell, Massachusetts, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on April 29, 2013, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distributing marijuana. Cornelius was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 36 months of imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman convicted of Simple Assault and Child Abuse has pled guilty to the charges and was sentenced on April 29, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Rita Runs Above, age 35, was sentenced to 132 days in custody, with credit for time served; 6 months of supervised release; and $110 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Julian Luna-Nieto, 44, has been handed a significant federal sentence for methamphetamine trafficking as well as conspiring to tamper with witnesses by using intimidation and threats, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Luna-Nieto, a legal permanent resident from Houston, pleaded guilty Sept., 21, 2012, admitting he used intimidation and threats with the intent to influence and prevent testimony in an official proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: DANVILLE - Jean Claude Bridges pleaded guilty earlier this year to deliberately setting a church on fire and was sentenced this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Danville. Bridges was sentenced to serve two years in prison, two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $141,773.68 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: PIERRE WILBOURN, age 40, a resident of Kenner, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud relating to a fraudulent application he made or caused to be made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance during the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jesse Mae Pollard, 54, of Northport, Alabama, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Ball today pursuant to a criminal complaint charging her with kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Maverick County Precinct One Commissioner Eliaz Maldonado and Maverick County Probation Officer and general contractor Javier Gonzalez each face up to ten years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty this morning to a bribery charge in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on May 1, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Douglas LaRoche, age 44, was sentenced to 35 months of imprisonment, 5 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund. He also needs to register as a sex offender.
By State Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Tuesday, May 7, he will convene a hearing to examine innovative initiatives to combat human trafficking around the world. The hearing, entitled “Local and Private Sector Initiatives to Combat International Human Trafficking, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A woman who operated four medical clinics in Reseda and Northridge was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for distributing the powerful and widely abused prescription narcotic oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Matthew Boyd, Chief, Miami Gardens Police Department, announce today’s sentencing of Reginald Mitchell, 28, of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on May 2, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, TYLER LEVI SMITH, a 31-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. SMITH was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that a federal grand jury returned a five-count superseding indictment charging Elk Grove residents, Mitchell Chang, 45 and Kelly Liang, 35, with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Douglas W. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced that this past Saturday, DEA collected 60 percent more pills than the previous Take-Back event, demonstrating the public’s continued appreciation and need for the opportunity to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables and kitchen drawers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: NEW ENGLAND - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, as well as our community, public health and law enforcement partners, announced today the following prescription Take- Back Day results.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Gregory Loreng, 45, of Fanwood, N.J., has been sentenced to an eight-year prison term on charges of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 6th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, April 27, 2013. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 39 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - John Reid Clayton, age 29, of Stansbury Park, Utah, charged in a federal indictment returned in February with four counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City Wednesday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Michael Meneses with hacking into the computer network of a company that manufactures high-voltage power supplies, causing the company over $90,000 in damage. Meneses was arrested earlier today in Smithtown...
By State Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Tuesday, May 7, he will convene a hearing to examine innovative initiatives to combat human trafficking around the world. The hearing, entitled “Local and Private Sector Initiatives to Combat International Human Trafficking, " will begin at 10 a.m.
