News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that on April 16, 2013, a federal Grand Jury in Alaska returned a 36-count indictment against 11 individuals for their involvement in a drug conspiracy involving the distribution of heroin and methamphetamine in Alaska and the Eastern District of California, along with money laundering, and conspiracy to launder proceeds of the unlawful distribution of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: - Agrees to forfeit more than $3.6 million dollars in assets including 10,824,192 assorted tobacco products.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Crest Hill man who is barred from possessing firearms because he is a convicted felon and his sister in Missouri were indicted on federal charges for allegedly conspiring to have her illegally purchase at least five firearms in Missouri and ship them to him in Illinois. RICHARD CARRINO...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: MARVIN ELCID MONTES-CERRATO, age 36, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U. S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente. MONTES was sentenced to approximately five months imprisonment. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Duval...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: SEATTLE - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) Sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this past Saturday collected 50 percent more pills than the previous one, demonstrating the American 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: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Victoria Brown, age 19, of Mission, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on May 1, 2013, and pled guilty to Second Degree Burglary. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 15 years in custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; 3 years of supervised release; and a $100 assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Seven people in Wichita have been charged in a federal mortgage fraud case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wessington Springs, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on May 1, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Jonathan Tyrrell, age 54, was sentenced to 12 months and one day of imprisonment to be followed by 18 months of supervised release, a $2,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Ronald W. Carr, 38, of Newport News, Va., pleaded guilty today to twenty-eight counts of robbery without a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly escaping from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons while at the Community Alternatives of the Black Hills on April 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Bombard, 24, of Saranac Lake, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa, to receipt of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum penalty of 20 years and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dominick J. Muracco, Jr., age 60, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, pled guilty in federal court in Wilkes-Barre before Senior U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo to attempted income tax evasion regarding his 2008 federal income tax return. Sentencing was scheduled for Aug. 15, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID KINNEY, 54, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme and for making false statements to federal law enforcement.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced significant cuts to catch allocations. These cuts will adversely impact Massachusetts fishermen and local economies in the bay state.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Robert Lee Pernell, 42, of Richmond, Va., was convicted today by a federal jury of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, attempt to interfere with commerce by robbery and use, carry, brandish and discharge a firearm in furtherance of the attempted robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANCOIS SOUROU AHISSOU, a citizen of Togo, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to participating in a conspiracy to import narcotics into the United States. AHISSOU was arrested in Monrovia, Liberia, in coordination with Liberian authorities in February 2011 and transferred to the custody of the United States. He pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TODD NEWMAN, a former portfolio manager at Diamondback Capital Management, LLC (“Diamondback"), was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 54 months in prison for crimes stemming from his involvement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: A Criminal Complaint Is An Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS - - Following a 13-day jury trial, a home builder was convicted by a jury today of embezzlement crimes for converting, misappropriating and stealing from a federal housing grant program during 2004, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Aliquippa, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation and six months home detention on his conviction of conspiracy to use counterfeit credit cards, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
