News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Carbon County man pleaded guilty on October 9, before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, to the charge of being an unlawful user of controlled substances in possession of firearms.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Ronnie Fire Cloud, age 38, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, was convicted of Attempted Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Abusive Sexual Contact as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. Fire Cloud was found not guilty of Aggravated Sexual Abuse by Force.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A man who transported a 16-year-old girl from Sacramento, Calif., to Reno, Nev. in July 2010 for the purposes of prostitution, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and lifetime supervised release, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Roy Wood, Chief of Interpretation for Katmai National Park & Preserve has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Alaska Region Freeman Tilden Award for his partnership with the Annenberg Foundation’s explore.org to bring the bears of Brooks Camp to the world through the installation and operation of several webcams.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that the former founder and chairman of the board of The Legacy Network, an insurance brokerage agency in Rexburg, Idaho, and his son were sentenced this afternoon in United States District Court in Pocatello.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Billy J. Avery, 82, of Virginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty today to violating the asbestos National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollution (NESHAP), in violation of the Clean Air Act.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY-- Noemi "Ami" Ghazala has been selected as the new superintendent of Women's Rights National Historical Park (NHP). She replaces Tammy Duchense, who recently was named superintendent of Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park in Hawai'i.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office, and Deryl Loar, Sheriff, Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, announce the sentencing of Omar Edgar Outten, 30, of Vero Beach, Florida. Outten was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez to 75 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Oct. 22, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, DOUGLAS VANCE CROOKED ARM, age 36, and KENNETH G. SHANE, age 45, residents of Crow Agency, were sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Fitzgerald Anthony Hudson, 53, formerly of Western New York, who was convicted of health care fraud for lying about his qualifications to practice medicine, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years supervised release by Chief U.S. District Chief Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $227,548.35.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Oct. 21, 2013, Diego DeLeon Chavez, 26, of Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 97 months of incarceration and five years of supervised release. Chavez pleaded guilty on July 25, 2013, to conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens, resulting in death, after two Guatemalan nationals whom Chavez’s operation was transporting were killed in a rollover crash.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Suwanee, Ga., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of laundering of monetary instruments, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in a case in which an Overland Park bank was robbed by a man with a hatchet, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released its Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework (PDF) to help critical infrastructure owners and operators reduce cybersecurity risks in industries such as power generation, transportation and telecommunications.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: - Indictment includes wire fraud, mail fraud and major fraud against the United States.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST MEP) has a new website where users can find a collection of reports and studies on manufacturing policy and practice.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Prescription Take-Back Day will be held this Saturday, Oct. 26, at locations throughout the State, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Clay Morris, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge for Alabama.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man has pleaded guilty to federal charges arising from an armed robbery and a carjacking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Bellevue Resident And Brother From Thailand Face Up To Five Years In Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Four South King County Properties To Be Sold By Marshals Service.