News from September 2013
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Rangers continue to investigate the disappearance of day hiker Bryan Lee Johnston of Seattle, Washington, who was reported overdue on Wednesday, August 28. An intensive search of the Lake Ozette area and adjacent Pacific Coast shoreline has failed to uncover any clues to Johnston's whereabouts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA- Monique Yvette Kimble, 39, of Midway, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 24 months in prison for preparing and filing fraudulent tax returns and for identity theft. The sentences were announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that on September 5, 2013, Bruce Lamell, 39, of Barre, Vermont, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for possessing firearms stolen from R&L Archery, a sporting goods store located in Barre, Vermont. United States District Judge William K. Sessions III, sitting in Burlington, also ordered Lamell to serve a term of three years of supervised release following Lamell’s prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that following a two-day trial before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William W. Caldwell in Harrisburg, Jerome Mario Britton, age 34, was convicted late Wednesday on one-count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. and Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester has returned a 19-count superseding indictment charging Daveanan Sookdeo, Kevin Cyster, Jonathan...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding a report released today by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) that analyzes Australia's carbon tax and its failure to meet established goals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brian R. Crowell and Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that Marvin L. Korn MD of 88 West Garden Road, Larchmont, New York was arraigned today on a Felony Complaint charging him with three counts of Criminal Sale of a Prescription for a Controlled Substance, class “C" Felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Dawn Davis, age 44, of Mount Vernon, has been charged by federal indictment with multiple counts related to an alleged methamphetamine conspiracy across the tristate area. Hogsett said these charges come as the U.S. Attorney’s Office continues efforts to combat the manufacture and sale of methamphetamine in southwestern Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Yolanda Nowlin, 42, has been convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, four counts of health care fraud, conspiracy to commit kickback fraud and aiding and abetting Social Security fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The verdicts were returned late yesterday afternoon following seven days of trial and less than three hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: KEITH JOSEPH MCGEE, age 29, of Gretna, Louisiana, was charged today in a three-count Indictment by a federal grand jury for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney Dana J. Boente. MCGEE was charged with one count of attempting to coerce a minor to produce...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Jermaine Heylinger, 41, of Jamaica, New York, was charged today by Indictment with one count of escape, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), regarding coordination with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to give public support of controversial regulations that may lead to closure of electric generating facilities and could negatively impact grid reliability.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Leicester man was sentenced today for various child pornography crimes.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: The "Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective" report was published today by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. (Full report offsite link ).
By DOL Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Ed Markey (D-MA) warned against the dangers of electronic cigarettes after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released new data showing that use of these products has more than doubled among middle and high school students since the 2011-2012 school year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: A felon who unlawfully possessed two firearms was convicted by a jury today after a two-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jonathan Weir, 45, a former bank employee, was sentenced today to 41 months in prison on a federal mail fraud charge stemming from his embezzlement of more than $2 million from client accounts, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: LEWISTON, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Lewiston Orchards Irrigation District (LOID) to jointly fund the design and construction of the Lewiston Orchards Pilot Water Exchange Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jorge O. Laurido, 54, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to four counts of assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Felon Had Explosives And A Dozen Firearms In Shed And Storage Locker.
