News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - J. Keith McCray, a criminal investigator with the Macon County Sheriff’s Office was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama for violating the rights of a man he unlawfully seized and assaulted, announce George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) endorsement of an agreement between the Department of Defense...
By State Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: New York - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the Afghan Loya Jirga’s decision to approve the U.S.-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: VAN BUREN MO:On November 9th and 10th, Ozark National Scenic Riverways hosted its first Wounded Warrior Mobility Impaired Hunt for a special group of the nation's population. Five hunters who submitted applications from around the state were selected to participate in the managed deer hunt and had the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, announces the kick-off of another year for the United States Attorney Office’s school outreach program to reduce gun violence. The effort, part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative to reduce...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RONALD UY pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to assisting Illya Trincher, a leader of an international sportsbook with ties to Russian-American organized crime, with structuring financial transactions.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s seasonal road wildlife closures on specific roads in the Grand Junction Field Office begin Dec. 1 to reduce stress on wintering wildlife and prevent road damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today that they have moved to intervene in National Federation of the Blind et al v. HRB Digital LLC et al, a private lawsuit alleging disability discrimination by HRB Digital LLC and HRB Tax Group Inc., subsidiaries of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Kyle Stevens, a/k/a Cappo, age 23, of Remington, Maryland, today to 32 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for discharging a gun, thereby killing Keith Ray, a/k/a Keithy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Last week, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging four alleged members of a methamphetamine trafficking organization operating out of Curry County, N.M. The indictment was unsealed after the arrests of Michael Montoya, 35, and Dianna Hernandez-Trujillo, 22, of Clovis, N.M....
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Two men from the South Texas area have pleaded guilty to trafficking approximately five kilograms of methamphetamine in Houston in May 2013, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Roberto Carlos Garza, 23, and Alexander Chavez, 34, both of Rio Grande City, each pleaded guilty earlier today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of methamphetamine before U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Mexican National Felipe Oviedo-Cerda, aka Felipe Telles-Sanchez or Mario Trevino-Leal, 55, has been ordered to prison for illegally re-entering the country, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury in McAllen convicted Oviedo-Cerda on Aug. 27, 2013, following a two-day trial and approximately two hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a nine-count indictment charging Kenneth White, 37, of Buffalo, N.Y., with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and sex trafficking of a minor...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: ERIE, PA. - An Erie resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal laws related to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: Missing hiker, Ann Lory, was found alive this morning, at approximately 11:30 a.m., in Yosemite National Park. She was located by a family member working with Search and Rescue crews in the search area. Lory sustained injuries and has been transported to a local hospital for medical attention.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Terry Ulysses Morris, 50, of Lithonia, Ga., was sentenced Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to 45 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing stolen U.S. mail. He pleaded guilty July 30, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Emeka Daniel Orji, 43, of Richmond, has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution following his conviction for conspiracy to commit and committing health care fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Orji pleaded guilty July 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
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