News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: Colombian Attorney Allegedly Paid Bribes To Colombian Official To Steal Confidential U.S. Law Enforcement Information, Then Sold Information To Narcotics Trafficker.
By USDA Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: (SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) - - The Drug Enforcement Administration with the support of the Puerto Rico Police Department “Oficina de Información Criminal de San Juan" directed by the Lieutenant Ivan Bahr, and in coordination with the U.S. Marshals Service, Puerto Rico, arrested Julio Marquez-Alejandro also known as "Chino Montero" a "Top Ten Most Wanted" fugitive since February 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 26-year-old Longview, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted an immigration attorney and four of his clients in connection with a conspiracy to bribe an immigration official in order to obtain lawful permanent residence, employment authorization documents and green cards. The defendants are.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pierre, South Dakota man convicted of Possession of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on May 20, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH. Pa. - A resident of Tarentum, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 151 months imprisonment on his conviction of federal drug and firearms offenses, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARVIN WOOTEN, also known as “Smash," 43, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by United States District Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a southwestern Connecticut narcotics trafficking ring.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: BUSHKILL, PA: Superintendent John J. Donahue announced today that work will begin next week on U. S. Route 209 through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Work will consist of pavement patching, crack sealing, and a slurry seal application between mile markers 17 and 21, at the north end...
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: The American composer, Aaron Copland, once said, “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.".
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: The terrible devastation from tornadoes in Oklahoma is only the latest reminder that the federal government must be prepared to help American families affected by natural disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: TNEWARK, N.J. - An internal medicine specialist who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was convicted today by a federal jury in New Jersey for his role in a conspiracy that put tens of thousands of prescription pills on the streets for resale, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Lower Burrell, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics, firearms and money laundering laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A supervisor of the Adams County, Ill., probation department’s drug court program, John Grotts, 59, of Ursa, Ill., has been charged in federal court by criminal complaint with maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr., announced that CYNTHIA D. WINDHAM, age 49, currently of Henderson, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson to a term of imprisonment of thirty (30) months. WINDHAM was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $217,347.91 and serve a two-year term of supervised release following her release from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: JOEL RAYMOND POLASKI, age 49, a resident of Thibodaux, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Helen G. Berrigan to possession of stolen mail, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: On Friday, May 24, work will resume on rehabilitation of 10 miles of Stevens Canyon Road in Mount Rainier National Park according to park Superintendent Randy King and officials from the Federal Highway Administration's Western Federal Lands Highway Division. This will be the second and final season of road rehabilitation effort that began last summer by Tucci and Sons, Inc., of Tacoma that was awarded the contract for $8,910,093.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - A Cincinnati man who previously admitted to participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin was sentenced to 162 months in federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) committed the federal government - and ultimately the taxpayers - to a $350 million building it proposed to walk away from and let taxpayers pick up the tab.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Patrick C. Harris, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Randall C. Coleman announced the sentencing of two Crittenden County men on a charge of conspiracy to commit election fraud.
