News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Defendant Who Transported Illegal Alien Sentenced to Two Years Supervised Release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Nov. 25, 2013, Francisco Javier Astorga-Velarde, 23, and Jose Pedro Soto-Valdez, 24, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton to 12 years imprisonment. The third co-defendant, Noel Galindez-Marmolejo, 33, received a sentence of 10 years. All three defendants are citizens of Mexico and pleaded guilty in August 2013 to using a firearm during a crime of violence which, in this case, was hostage taking.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Dear Attorney General Holder: There has been growing concern about the effect that state “stand your ground" laws have on the safety of our communities and on Americans’ civil rights. “Stand your ground" laws expand the situations in which lethal force can be used by civilians in response to perceived...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Defendant Alleged to Have Received and Possessed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months in jail and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $422,740.87 on his conviction of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Alamogordo, NM. The public is invited to join in a special holiday open house at White Sands National Monument on Friday, December 6, 2013 from 5pm to 8pm. In what will be a spectacular holiday display for that night only, 500 luminarias will cast a warm glow on the historic adobe visitor center at...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHAN SNAPE, 37, of Enfield, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a previous federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A husband and wife who worked as real estate agents in southern Nevada have pleaded guilty to bank fraud charges in connection with several residential short sale transactions that resulted in over $350,000 in losses to Wells Fargo and Freddie Mac, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: In Waco this afternoon, 42-year-old Michael Harrison Mathews of Cedar Hill, TX, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for robbing a Hillsboro, TX, bank earlier this year and for being a career criminal 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: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHAN SNAPE, 37, of Enfield, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Paullina, Iowa, man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 25, 2013, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JAMES CLARK, 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. Clark...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on the Obama Administration’s efforts to double energy productivity by 2030 and help communities save on energy bills, the Energy Department today awarded nearly $4 million to 13 states to increase statewide energy savings and boost the energy efficiency of public institutions...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Nicholas Lee Blair, 31, appeared yesterday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cumming and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging one count of production of child pornography. Blair, who is in custody, faces a statutory penalty of not less than 15 years or more than 30 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: A man who provided a gun to a felon was sentenced Nov. 25, 2013, to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Ulises Sandoval, 26, of Dallas, appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade and pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography and one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography. Sandoval, who is in custody, faces a statutory sentence of not less than...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: All 35 Charged Members And Associates Of The Gang Have Been Convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Joshua S. Putter (48, Needham, Massachusetts) with destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of twenty years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Dec. 2, 2013. The committee will convene three hearings, including comprehensive reviews of the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as well as an examination of how the president’s health care law affects Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
