News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Defendant’s Organization Imported Hundreds Of Kilograms Of Heroin And Cocaine To The New York Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Owners Agree To Remedy Numerous Violations Of The ADA And Pay $10,000 Penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who mailed more than $38,000 worth of heroin to associates located in Huntington pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Zachery Jose Merritt, 30, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin before Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers in Huntington.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Region 5 News Release: 13-2070-CHI. Nov. 12, 2013. Contact: Scott Allen Rhonda Burke. Phone: 312-353-6976. Email: allen.scott@dol.gov burke.rhonda@dol.gov. HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Selfridge Air National Guard Base has been issued eight notices of unsafe or unhealthful working conditions by the U.S. Department...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Long-awaited construction is scheduled to take place next week on the popular Lost Valley hiking trail in Boxley Valley. Subject to heavy rains and a flash flood in 2011, this trail which is the most popular day use destination in Buffalo National River, will see the placement of trail aggregate on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Friday evening, November 8, 2013, Dolores Pagàn-Lozada, 54, was arrested at his place of residence after an HSI investigation, which stemmed from a referral by the Puerto Rico Police Department, revealed that he engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a 16-year-old female minor identified as Jane Doe, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Acadia National Park is seeking public input on a proposal to simplify the entrance fee structure. Currently the park charges a weekly entrance fee of $10 per vehicle in the shoulder seasons and $20 per vehicle in the peak season. The park staff is proposing to collect an entrance fee of $20 per vehicle...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: NOTICE: DOE has extended the public comment period on its Draft Environmental Assessment for Resumption of Transient Testing of Nuclear Fuels and Materials to Jan. 10, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tayah Edwards, 40, pleaded guilty this morning to a felony information charging him with assault resulting in serious bodily injury and domestic assault by a habitual offender. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Edwards will be sentenced to 70 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Nov. 12, 2013, United States District Court Judge Jennifer G. Zipps sentenced suspended Border Patrol Agents Dario Castillo, age 25, of Yuma, Ariz., and Ramon Zuniga, age 31, of San Luis, Ariz., to 24 months in prison, as a result of their convictions for civil rights offenses. Both were ordered to self-surrender for service of their sentence on or before Jan. 14, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, after 12 days of jury trial, three members of La ONU, Edwin Bernard Astacio-Espino aka Bernard, Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo aka Danny KX, Danny Vorki and Ramón Lanza-Vàzquez aka Ramoncito, were found guilty of drug trafficking and murder charges. Namely, violations to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Catarina Munos Robledo, 24, of Waelder, Texas, was sentenced on Friday, by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to 46 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in August 2013 to one count of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine), announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman who participated in an oxycodone and heroin distribution conspiracy pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Kimberly Gayle Hamlett, 39, pleaded guilty to distribution of oxycodone before Chief United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA - Linda Rose Gagnon, also known as Linda Gualtieri-Gagnon, age 59, a former resident of Orange, CA, was convicted today by a jury on three counts of Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. Ms. Gagnon’s trial occurred before the Hon. Andrew J. Guilford in the Ronald Reagan Courthouse of the Central District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: HONOLULU -A jury in United States District Court found Michelle Malufau, 47, of Laie, Oahu, guilty today of bankruptcy fraud related to the Chapter 7 bankruptcy that she filed in 2011. Specifically, after a four day trial and less than an hour of deliberation, the jury convicted Malufau of making false statements under penalty of perjury on documents filed in that 2011 bankruptcy, and also of testifying falsely under oath at a hearing in that same proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Gabriel N. Nervig (39, Millville, Utah) to 18 months in federal prison for bank fraud. The court also ordered Nervig to pay restitution to SunTrust in the amount of $155,000 and to serve a four-year term of supervised release, following his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Earl Francis Hart, 53, an inmate at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for assaulting a federal correctional officer in February 2013, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and United States Marshal Jamie A. Hainsworth.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Nov. 12, 2013, Travis A. Zielinski (age: 28) of Appleton was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. Zielinski had previously entered a guilty plea to a single count of Bank Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced that Mark Alan Saltzer, 46, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 360 months in prison, with credit for time served. Saltzer pleaded guilty in July 2013 to sexual exploitation of children by producing sexually explicit images...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: In El Paso, FBI agents arrested a former El Paso County Assistant District Attorney Antonio Reyes based on a federal grand jury indictment charging with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and the deprivation of honest services announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
