News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: MAY 20 (HOUSTON) - - Four men have been charged with conspiracy to possess and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Roberto Carlos Garza, 23, and Alexander Chavez, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: A Minnesota man who interfered with a federal prosecutor while engaged in his official duties was sentenced on May 16, 2013, in federal court in Davenport.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Frank Alan Klukosky, age 43, of Laurel, Maryland, today to 20 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for producing child pornography. Chief Judge Chasanow also ordered that upon his release from prison Klukosky...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: Defendants Smuggled Victims As Young As 14 Years Old From Mexico To NYC, Forced Them Into Prostitution.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee Chairwoman Claire McCaskill (D-MO), and Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member Ron Johnson (R-WI) introduced S. 986, a bill...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed late today charges a 32-year-old Duluth man with the sex trafficking of a child for approximately seven months last year. The indictment, which was filed on May 7, 2013, charges Markeace Arque Canty with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Jose Armando Bran, also known as “Pantro," 30, of Richmond, Va., was convicted today by a federal jury on murder and maiming in aid of racketeering, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A retired Chicago police officer was sentenced today to 18 years in federal prison for his lengthy participation in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that involved the distribution of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, murder, violent kidnappings, robberies, home invasions, and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: Defendant Rodney Watts Helped Mastermind $21 Million Bank Fraud.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, slammed the State Department for failing to list Vietnam as a “Country of Particular Concern" in its Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Royce issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and William M. Cowan, Congressman Edward Markey, United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, and U.S. Marshal John Gibbons recognized Woburn Police Officer Mark Gibbons with the Congressional Badge of Bravery award during a ceremony at the U.S. Federal Courthouse today. Officer Gibbons was honored for his heroic acts following a jewelry store robbery in Woburn on Sept. 6, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Veta Thompson, 40, of New Iberia, La., was sentenced on May 17, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote, to 26 months in prison with one year supervised release for filing claims with the IRS and receiving tax refunds she was not owed. Judge Foote also ordered her to pay $77,349.09 in restitution to the IRS.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at Monday's committee hearing, "Advocating for American Jacob Ostreicher’s Freedom After Two Years in Bolivian Detention.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jonathan Matthew Sandoval, 26, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to being a felon in possession of ammunition. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Sandoval will be sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Sandoval’s guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Thomas G. Atteberry, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, physical education teacher Rigel Colón-Cruzado was arrested for Coercion and Enticement of a minor following an investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF), announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On May 17, 2013, Colin Peter Thompson, age 21, of Ames, Iowa, and Lee Marvin Weekly, age 21, of Clarence, Iowa, were sentenced to 3 months and 18 months imprisonment, respectively, for conspiring to distribute marijuana, for disposing of a firearm to a drug user, and for possessing a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - The U.S. Department of Energy recently joined with the U.S. Embassy in Prague and the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Industry and Trade to complete the transfer of 75 kilograms of fluoride salt from the Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to the Czech Nuclear Research...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On May 17, 2013, Mauriosantana Paul Cowan, age 40, was sentenced to 300 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose also sentenced Salinas to ten years of supervised release following the imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former stock broker was sentenced to prison today for his role in an extensive pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma, Special Agent in Charge James E. Finch of the FBI's Oklahoma City Division and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Chief Richard Weber.
