News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Chong pleaded guilty today to a charge involving the failure to disclose the existence of foreign bank accounts on his tax returns, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge José M. Martínez announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Braden was the only defendant of 42 indicted to go to trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: JASPER - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Kurtis Head, age 33, of Jasper, has been charged with twelve counts of receiving child pornography. Hogsett said the filing of formal charges comes as his office has launched Operation Community Watch, a new effort which aims to reduce the abuse of Hoosier children through innovative investigative techniques and aggressive prosecution.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Drivers traveling from Hana through Kīpahulu (Highways 360/31) may experience brief delays on Monday, September 9 through Tuesday, September 10 when traffic will be reduced to one lane. Delays are expected to be no more than 15 minutes. To improve pedestrian safety, highway traffic in the Kīpahulu section...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Terry Green, 60, of Memphis, TN, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes to 33 months in prison for tax fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Investigation Yields Seizures of Cocaine, Crack, Heroin, and Weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Philip Chaohui HE, aka Philip Hope, who was residing in Oakland, California, pled guilty Sept. 3, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act and to Smuggle Goods from the United States, United States Attorney John Walsh...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Randy Patrie, age 40, from Charles City, Iowa, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Patrie was convicted of being a felon in possession of 22 firearms and two sawed-off shotguns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the September 2013 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Octavio Orizaba, 38, a legal permanent resident from Illinois, has entered a guilty plea to attempting to smuggle more than $2 million to Mexico, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. This was the largest unreported currency seizure that has been intercepted through Laredo thus far this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Jason Antti, who traveled to Georgia to have a sexual encounter with a fictitious 11-year-old and 14-year-old girl has been sentenced on charges of child enticement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement that he will address the American people on Tuesday regarding a strike on Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Tasleem Ekun, age 36, of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, today to two years in prison followed by one year of supervised release for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two defendants were arraigned this week in Anchorage on charges involving a drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Alvin Pennue, 32, of Indianapolis, Ind., was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison for passing altered United States currency on two occasions and for inducing a victim to transport $5,000 from Massachusetts to Rhode Island as part of a Black Money scam, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Brian S. Deck, Acting Resident Agent in Charge of the Providence Office of the United States Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were arrested for transporting cocaine on a sailboat bound for Montreal.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, 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 (ATF), Miami Field Office, and Alysa D.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: Lee H. Grinston, 27, of East St. Louis, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 63 months in federal prison on September 6, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
