News published on Federal Newswire in October 2013

News from October 2013


News Release: LAKE MOHAVE WATER LEVELS TO DROP DURING BOR RAZORBACK SUCKER HARVEST.


Spokane Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Meth In Idaho

News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Charles Edward Gibson, 43, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Coeur d’Alene to 240 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Rosanna Malouf Petersen of the Eastern District of Washington also ordered Gibson to forfeit $35,000. He pleaded guilty to the charge on June 25, 2013.


News Release: ATLANTA - Otis Henry has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking over 700,000 pills of BZP, a drug similar to ecstasy.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Carlito Bailey, 22, and Rickey Watkins, 22, both of Washington D.C., were found guilty by a jury on Oct. 11, 2013 of charges stemming from a shooting in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.


News Release: DENVER -- Eric Jensen, age 37, and Ryan Jensen, age 33, brothers who owned and operated Jensen Farms, located in Granada, Colorado, pled guilty this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty to all six counts of the government’s Information which charged them with introduction of adulterated...


Ten Charged After Investigation Into Danbury-Area Home Invasion Drug Robberies

News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England, Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Danbury Police Chief Alan D. Baker today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport has...


News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Vintondale, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to probation and ordered to pay a fine in the amount of $2,500, on his conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on today’s Committee meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.


Mail-order Diabetic Supply Company And Its Owners Resolve Allegations Of Civil And Criminal Fraud Arising From Kickback Payments

News Release: The owners of Kansas-based Global Medical Direct, LLC and Global Medical Inc., Robert Shea and Mark Franz, have agreed to pay $7 million to resolve allegations against them in connection with a scheme to submit false claims to the federal Medicare and Tricare healthcare programs, announced United States...


News Release: WASHINGTON - Jon C. Cooper, 64, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty on Oct. 9, 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of tax evasion related to his failure to report over $448,000 in income he received in 2006.


News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Voices of Civil Rights on Friday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after a bipartisan Committee meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Including Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), 15 Committee Members attended the meeting in the Rayburn House Office Building.


Allan Harvey Elected ASME Fellow

News Release: Allan Harvey, a chemical engineer in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Material Measurement Laboratory, has been elected as a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).


NIST Physicists 'Entangle' Microscopic Drum's Beat with Electrical Signals

News Release: Extending evidence of quantum behavior farther into the large-scale world of everyday life, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "entangled"-linked the properties of-a microscopic mechanical drum with electrical signals.


Huntsville Resident Convicted Of Distributing Child Pornography

News Release: HOUSTON - Reed Christopher LeBlanc, 20, a former resident of Huntsville, has entered a plea of guilty to distribution of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England, and Danbury Police Chief Alan D. Baker today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport has returned a superseding...


Mail-Order Diabetic Supply Company And Its Owners Resolve Allegatiions Of Civil And Criminal Fraud

News Release: The following is a joint release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.


News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed on Oct. 10, charging Gerald Timek, age 28, of Duryea, Pennsylvania, with distribution of cocaine.


Pittsburgh Man Facing Charges Related To The Sexual Exploitation Of Minors

News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of receipt, distribution, and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announces that Jeffrey Justison, age 44, of Elkton, Maryland, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews to six months incarceration, followed by six months house arrest, for failure to collect, and pay over to the IRS, federal income taxes from his employees.