News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. During the government shutdown, press releases for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Louisiana, were limited. Today, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announces the following results from...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY- Women's Rights National Historical Park is re-opened to visitors.The park has been closed since October 1 due to the lapse in Congressional appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Oct. 17, 2013, Devere L. Abair, Jr., 48, of West Frankfort, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court for accessing child pornography images online and for failure to register as a convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON Devon Holmes, 30, also known as “Jamaica," of Washington D.C., was sentenced today to 24 years in prison for the August 2011 slaying of a man in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Lawrence Wilson, 24, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 194 months in prison for his role in a large scale drug organization responsible for transporting multiple kilograms of cocaine and hundreds of pounds of marijuana to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Wilson’s brother, Michael, ran the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 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 that Hernandez Banks, 23, of Palm Beach, was convicted yesterday on all three counts of receipt, distribution and possession of child pornography, after a six day trial before U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Congaree National Park re-opened to visitors yesterday. Visitors can access facilities, public areas and roads immediately. CongareeNational Park has been closed since October 1 due to the lapse in Congressional appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom will speak in Parsons on Thursday, Oct. 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - EVELYN SILAS, Florissant, MO, pled guilty to 13 counts of tax and fraud charges. Silas appeared before United States District Judge Catherine Perry. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 14, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Marcus Patterson Carey, 28, of Canton, Ohio, was sentenced on October 8, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi, to 30 years in prison for second degree murder and 20 years in prison for attempted second degree murder with both sentences to be served concurrently. He was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release. Carey pleaded guilty on June 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Oct. 18, 2013, Nathan Wayne Smith, a 47 year-old resident of Lexington, Missouri, was found guilty in federal court of robbing the Great Western Bank of Hamburg, Iowa, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. The trial was presided over by United States District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Michael Bowman, age 61, of Baltimore, today to 33 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to use personal identifying information of individual bank accounts holders to defraud banks. Bowman also paid restitution of $35,283.70.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Hagåtña, Guam - War in the Pacific National Historical Park (NHP) re-opens to visitors on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013. Visitors can access public areas and roads immediately while facilities and other public services are brought back online. War in the Pacific NHP has been closed since October 2 due to the lapse in Congressional appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: TROY, NEW YORK - RICHARD S. ELY, 27, of Troy, New York, entered a guilty plea yesterday before the Honorable Mae A. D’Agostino to an indictment charging him with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Joseph Anarumo, Special Agent in...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Big Bend National Park Reopens to Visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Evie Bowin Herrin, 58, of Kirbyville, Texas, and her daughter Amelia Darci Crew, 31, of Cleveland, Texas, were sentenced on...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a federal grand jury recently returned indictments against Tina M. Baalman (age: 28), Jason D. Schultz (age: 36), and Jessica M. Gilbert (age: 24) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, as well as Jessica Weinhart (nee Hensen)...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Richard Mark Abbott, 62, of Chesterfield, Va., was sentenced today to a 2 ½-year prison term on a federal charge of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - William Spriggs, 25, was sentenced today to 38 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder and other charges stemming from a violent rivalry between two street crews in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.
