News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Texas man has pleaded guilty to holding a dog fight at his home, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Donovan Eric Williams, 24, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Whippoorwill, Ariz., pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with assaulting a federal officer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and Director John Billison of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With public participation at an all-time high after six prior events in three years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take Back Day at thousands of sites across America on Saturday the 26th. These...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Mary Gibson Scott, superintendent of Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, was recognized for her exemplary leadership in addressing environmental issues and concerns during the annual George B. Hartzog, Jr. Environmental Awards Program ceremony at Clemson University.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A 24-year-old man who had 196 grams of cocaine and nearly $70,000 in cash hidden at his Charleston residence in February 2012 was sentenced today to two and a half years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Gabriel J. Gonzalez previously pleaded guilty in June to possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Gonzalez’s sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Defendant Already Serving A Life Sentence For Attempted Murder In Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: On Oct. 17, 2013, Rachel S. Holt, 40, Sparta, Illinois, pled guilty to three methamphetamine-related offenses, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: The Sarg’s Mini Mart and Seoul Foods Robberies Investigations have been completed. Sioux City Police Chief Doug Young and United States Attorney’s Office Sioux City Branch Chief Tim Duax reported the results of the investigation at a press conference held at the Sioux City Police Department on Friday Oct. 18, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that John Stanley Clabaugh, Jr., 69, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, to 6 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for failing to pay over withholding and FICA taxes. After prison, Clabaugh will serve 3 years of supervised release, with an additional 6 months of home confinement. Judge Gerrard also ordered that Clabaugh pay restitution in the amount of $135,109.92.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: 92 defendants have been charged to date in Operation Sledgehammer I-VI.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Tourism Creates $37.6 Million in Local Economic Benefit.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: The National Weather Service has issued a beach hazards statement for sneaker waves, strong rip currents, and large surf, which is in effect through Tuesday afternoon, from Sonoma County south to Monterey County.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former part-owner and underwriter for New York-based litigation funding company The Law Funder LLC was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for participating in a kickback scheme that defrauded his former business partners of $869,492, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the extraditions of four defendants charged with international narcotics trafficking...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Pacific West Regional Director Christine Lehnertz announced that after a highly competitive process, Rainier Guest Services has been selected to be awarded a new concession contract to operate lodging, food and beverage, retail and other commercial services within the Longmire, Paradise, and Sunrise areas of Mount Rainier National Park.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) protects the United States by promoting homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration. To accomplish this mission, ICE's Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas- Carlos Cortinas, 40, and Mark Anthony Stokes, 35, of Three Rivers, have entered pleas of guilty to sexual exploitation of a child, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Today, Special Agent in Charge Daniel R. Salter, of the Dallas Field Division’s Drug Enforcement (DEA), announces the local component of the 7th nationwide prescription drug “Take-Back" initiative that seeks to prevent increased pill abuse and theft. The DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kearney, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for producing and possessing child pornography. Austin D. Hurtado, 20, of Kearney, was sentenced by U.S. Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joseph Clifford Reel, 32, of Kettering, Ohio, pled guilty on Oct. 4, 2013 to a federal charge stemming from an incident in which he rigged his Jeep to travel, unattended, toward the White House, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Kathy A. Michalko, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office of the U.S. Secret Service.
