News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A woman from Ottawa, Kan., has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for her role in a drug trafficking ring tied to the death of a man who died from taking a mixture of prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michele M. Leonhart, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), today...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Joseph G. Caronna, 48, of Cordova, TN, was sentenced today to 85 months in federal prison on four counts related to defrauding clients of his investment and insurance business, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation, restitution of $27,926 and 50 hours of community service and a $100 special assessment on his conviction of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - DANIEL WAYNE AUSMUS, 44, from Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti to serve 78 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, mail fraud, and submitting false claims to the United States, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -A Huntington felon stopped by police following a May 2012 traffic violation pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegal firearm possession charges. Sterlyn Avery Hewlett, 30, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Officers with the Huntington Police Department conducted a traffic stop of the defendant’s vehicle on May 12, 2012. During the traffic stop, police found a loaded Glock 9-millimeter pistol inside of Hewlett’s vehicle.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: You can celebrate National Trails Day, June 1, on the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail (SBHT) at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). National Trails Day encourages all Americans to get outside to celebrate the importance of natural places where you can recreate, breathe some fresh...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 60-year-old Spurger, Texas, woman has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota man was indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Shawntell Rush Was A Long Time Gang Member Who Often Possessed Handguns In Connection With His Gang Activity.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: On June 8 and 9, the National Park Service at the Eisenhower National Historic Site will commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France. It was the most crucial decision Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower made during World War II. At a meeting with his staff...
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Over 46 million residential structures in the United States are in areas at risk of wildfires. A new publication* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) identifies a set of research needs aimed at preventing or managing this growing threat to about 70,000 communities located in the so-called wildland-urban interface (WUI).
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Physicists John Kitching and Svenja Knappe of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will receive 2014 Rank Prizes in optoelectronics "for the creation and demonstration of the first chip-scale atomic clock."
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Teriel Young, 32, of Quincy, Florida, wassentenced to serve 188 months in federal prison today on multiple charges of distributing cocaine and crack cocaine. Young was also sentenced to six years of supervised release and $400 of special monetary assessments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Edward and Robert Gutierrez have each entered guilty pleas to filing a false income tax refund claim, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 19 law clerks from 10 different law schools have joined the Buffalo and Rochester Offices of the United States Attorney's Office for the summer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Shukri Temirov, 37, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Information with four counts of bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Two Perry County, Illinois, residents were indicted by a federal grand jury on May 21, 2013, and charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA -- The former police chief of the Pennington Gap, Virginia Police Department, who pleaded guilty in January to felony charges related to his involvement in the distribution of prescription pain killers and the burglary of a pharmacy, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Big Stone Gap.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and other federal officials today announced the extradition of ALFONSO PORTILLO, the former President of Guatemala, who is charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars he embezzled from the Government of Guatemala through bank accounts located in the United States. Portillo arrived in the Southern District of New York last Friday and will be presented today before U.S. District Judge Robert P. Patterson.
