News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Elijah Francis, 43, of the District of Columbia was charged today by Indictment with assaulting a federal corrections officer at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, on May 21, 2013, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: In Waco, 32-year-old Wendy Chudej (pronounced “Hoo-jay") faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to robbing a Waco bank in August 2013 announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge Armando Fernandez, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two Michigan residents were sentenced in U. S. District Court in Fairbanks for a 2009 unlawful taking of a grizzly bear during closed season, making false records to conceal the illegal kill, and transporting the bear parts out of Alaska.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today made the following statement on the Administration’s proposed changes to 501(c)(4) rules...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for pretending to be an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to defraud illegal aliens seeking to apply for legal status in the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: On Nov. 26, 2013, Ricardo Omar Hernandez, 37, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine between January of 2011 and Feb. 23, 2013. Hernandez was ordered to serve 10 years of supervised release following the prison term, and he was also ordered to forfeit $12,914 in cash to the United States of America. Hernandez was convicted by a federal jury on Aug. 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO -- James Clark, 23, of Saint Louis, Missouri entered his guilty plea today before the Honorable Catherine D. Perry. Clark pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A group of federal partners at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) teamed with industry and nonprofit organizations to warn consumers today to be wary of holiday shopping scams designed to dupe them into buying counterfeit products.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: (DETROIT) - Today, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), along with Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney John P. Kacavas announced Mark Webster, 23, formerly of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: In Waco this afternoon, former U.S. Army Sergeant David J. Adams, age 38, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and fined $1,000 for the aggravated sexual abuse of a child announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Nov. 26, 2013, Ismael Corrales Portillo, a 42 yearold resident of Phoenix, Arizona, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and one kilogram or more of heroin; possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine;...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Lyle Plentywounds, Sr., 58, of Pocatello, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to assaulting an officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Nov. 26, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, SEAN MICHAEL VAIRA, a 30-year-old resident of Billings, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sentencing has been set for March 13, 2014. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: A Dubuque man who sold cocaine from his residence near a playground was sentenced Nov. 25, 2013, to more than four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Defendant Also Filed Fraudulent Federal Tax Returns Seeking Over $200,000 In Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal jury late Monday convicted a Birmingham man in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine between Birmingham and Austin, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The final four people convicted in the large-scale racketeering case involving the McConnell Unit in Beeville have been ordered to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Houston.
