News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Police Discover Felon in Possession of Five Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTWAIN YOPP, 31, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 50 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine and marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Preliminary DNA results from the mountain lion killed last month on the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills indicate the lion was traveling from the north and was on the verge of bringing new genetic material to the isolated population in the Santa Monica Mountains.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal grand jury has indicted IRA ROBERT SCHILLING, 42, a former resident of Moore, Oklahoma, for committing disaster benefits fraud and making false statements in connection with a claim for benefits following the May 2013 tornados in Moore, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: The National Park Service (NPS) is accepting applications for commercial use authorizations (CUA) to provide vehicle tours on the Denali National Park Road between mid-February and May 10th. This is a new winter commercial opportunity for the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: To Submit False Claims To The IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Company involved in scheme to bilk BrickStreet Mutual Insurance out of millions in insurance premiums also structured over $2 million in cash out of Bank of Mingo.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Tim "TC" Colyer, a 13 year veteran of the National Park Service, has been named chief ranger for Midwest Regional Office. Colyer is currently the chief ranger at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Tarran Arnel Brinson, 24, of Tulsa, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell for Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking of Children, Sex Trafficking of Children, Attempted Sex Trafficking of Children, Interstate Travel, and Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Michael Alford, age 31, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on Oct. 31, 2013, and pled guilty to Larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas P. DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller, Richard Condon, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for New York City’s Department of Education, and Brian M. Hickey, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Northeastern...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, along with Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane and Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an indictment today charging Matthew Baratucci, age 29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owners of Wei’s Super Buffet restaurant in Olathe have been charged with harboring undocumented workers who were in the United States unlawfully, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that defendant William Potts, Jr., a/k/a William Freeman, a/k/a Lieutenant Spartacus, was arrested by the FBI today at Miami International Airport on charges of air piracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Michael Destry Williams, age 49, of Pueblo, Colorado, was found guilty by a jury late yesterday for tax evasion, structuring, bank fraud, and interfering with IRS laws, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation Division (IRS CI) and Treasury Inspector General...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: A 65-count superseding indictment was filed today charging the former director of the Cleveland and Dayton VA Medical Centers with a scheme to enrich himself and his conspirators by working as a consultant for, and taking money from, a design firm pursuing more than $1 billion in VA contracts and sharing confidential information about VA construction projects while still employed by the VA, law enforcement officials said.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) advanced a bill today to help reduce waste and government inefficiency by consolidating the total number of federal data centers, and making those data centers more efficient. HSGAC Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) joined the effort as a cosponsor of the bill introduced last week by Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), and cosponsored by Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 43-year-old Tamaqua, Pennsylvania resident was sentenced to nearly seven months in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for his role in an Oxycontin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks County in 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The American people have again responded in droves to the most recent DEA-led National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday citizens turned in 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,683 take-back sites that were available in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Brian Kenny pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false U.S. Income Tax Return, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez announced.
