News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 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 the arrest of Hershel F. Smith, Jr., 80, of Ponte Vedra, Florida. Smith is charged with devising a scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Khusar Mobley was sentenced today to 147 months’ imprisonment, for conspiracy to commit robbery; assault on a federal officer; robbery; and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Agrees To Forfeit $1.5 Million Seized From Bank Accounts And Pay $250,000 Fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Michael Dale Irwin, age 27, of Rising Sun, Maryland, today to 210 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for the sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography. Judge Bennett also ordered that upon...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the new date for the close of the protest period for the Trest Rios Resource Management Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brendan Harry, 21, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 57 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on involuntary manslaughter and assault charges. Harry also was ordered to pay $2,052.13 in restitution to cover funeral and other expenses incurred by one victim’s family.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released a response from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), regarding closed-door settlement agreements between FWS, the Center for Biological Diversity, and WildEarth Guardians that will lead to the final listing determinations for more than 250 species over the next six years. The FWS continues to hide documents related to their settlement agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division and Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, announced today the indictment of a narcotics trafficker on drug and weapons charges stemming from the seizure of 31 kilograms of cocaine, $1.6 million in cash and two loaded semi-automatic pistols from an apartment in the Fieldston section of the Bronx.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: A helicopter search of the lava fields north and west of the Tree Molds Trail early Tuesday evening yielded the location of Dr. Jodean "Jo" Elliott-Blakeslee. Her body was located approximately one mile from the location where searchers earlier found the body of her hiking partner Amelia "Amy" Linkert. A final determination of cause of death is pending the investigation by the coroner and law enforcement personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Alaa K. Jaber (a/k/a “Ace"), 27, of Hazelwood, Missouri, Rami M. Abou Amra (a/k/a “Lucky"), 35, of Troy, Illinois, and Albraa K. Sabrah (a/k/a “Roy"), 25, of Bridgeton Missouri, were each indicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: HONOLULU -- A federal jury yesterday found Mahealani Ventura-Oliver, 44, and Pilialoha K. Teves, 52, both of Maui, guilty of conspiracy and mail fraud offenses arising out of their marketing of a debt elimination scheme between 2008 and 2009. The jury also found Ventura-Oliver guilty of conspiring to submit false tax returns, and of submitting a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Grand Jury Indictment Alleges Baccari And His Development Firm Paid A $50,000 Bribe.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico State Office is rescheduling the Jan. 22, 2014, Oil and Gas Lease Sale to Feb. 26, 2014. This sale could not occur originally on the scheduled date because the Federal Government Shutdown prevented the timely publication of the Oil and Gas Lease Sale...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced charges against nine individuals - Paul Wiseberg, Robert Kalaba, Gerald Wiseberg, Stephanie...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement after the House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 3080, the Water Resources and Reform Development Act (WRRDA). In May, the Senate passed S. 601, the bipartisan ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Defendant Represented Himself as a CPA to Assist Individuals and Businesses.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - After more than four decades with the National Park Service (NPS), John Benjamin has decided to hang up his “flat hat" for the last time. Benjamin, superintendent of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, thoroughly enjoyed his time here. “Working closely with the Carlsbad community was very rewarding and extremely vital to the support of the park. I will certainly miss the camaraderie I felt here," he said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: PETER GALVAN, 54, a resident of St. Tammany Parish, and the former St. Tammany Parish Coroner, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to steal government funds from the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for using a computer in his home to distribute images of child pornography, including images of infants, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
