News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced xavier deshawn lymas, 24, jessie gomez, 26, and LIONEL BERNARD NEWMAN, 23, all of Fayetteville. LYUMAS received 200 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Antonio Barnes, 21, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 25-year prison term for his role in a shootout in which two people were killed, including a 15-year-old bystander, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced. The gunfire took place in 2009 while young children were walking home from school in the Clay Terrace area.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in three days of historic, "real-time" walks on Sept. 18, 19, and 20, 2013, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Union and Confederate soldiers found themselves locked in a deadly...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gordon Chavez, 35, a former probation officer with the New Mexico Department of Corrections Division of Probation and Parole, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to charges related to the sexual assault of a probationer whom he supervised. Chavez pleaded guilty to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A superseding indictment filed Aug. 21, 2013, was unsealed today charging Joseph Torres, 31, Bertin Sanchez, 29, Euddy Izquierdo, 31, and Frank Felix-Herrera, 49, all of Philadelphia, with membership in a conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: A Venice, Illinois, man was sentenced to a prison term in federal district court on Aug. 30, 2013, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B Three members of a Dodge City street gang have been sentenced in a federal racketeering case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced John Martin Spaulding (22, Jacksonville) to 38 years in federal prison for two counts of armed robbery and two counts of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. He pleaded guilty on April 24, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Michael Pearlingi, age 44, of Key West, Florida, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Aug. 27, 2013, and pled guilty to Count I of the Indictment that charged him with Conspiracy to Distribute and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Victoria Wallace, a/k/a “Prune the Goon," 20, of Memphis, TN, was sentenced Friday to 216 months in federal prison for her role in a child sex trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. -- Four people in Wichita have pleaded guilty in a mortgage fraud case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is hosting its fourth annual "Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity Education Workshop" September 17-19, 2013, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) laboratories in Gaithersburg, Md.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Prince J. Bell, 27, of Newport News, Va., pleaded guilty today to robbery and possession of a firearm related to the robbery of a Shell Gas Station in Newport News.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: Three male Canadian climbers sustained multiple injuries from a fall into a crevasse while descending from the summit at 11,200’ on the Emmons Glacier on Sunday, September 1. The incident was reported to Mount Rainier National Park at approximately4 a.m.by another climbing team ascending the routethat came upon the team that had fallen onto a ledge approx. 30 feet below the lip of the crevasse.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Chad Two Hearts, age 39, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, has been convicted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child as a result of a two-day federal jury trial held in Pierre, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former Kansas man was ordered Tuesday to pay $54,926 in back taxes and placed on federal probation for three years for tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2013
News Release: Lake Clark National Park & Preserve operates a salmon counting tower on the Newhalen River below Six Mile Lake. Salmon escapement counts assist the park in meeting our congressionally mandated purpose to protect the watershed for the perpetuation of the red salmon fishery of Bristol Bay. 230,844 sockeye...
By State Newswire | Sep 2, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, September 4, he will convene a hearing to discuss the Obama Administration’s response to the crisis in Syria, including the President’s request for an Authorization for Use of Military Force.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 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 about the proposed resolution for the use of military force in Syria...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 2, 2013
News Release: SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned a Hojo currency plate, looted from the Deoksu Palace in Seoul during the Korean War, to the government of South Korea during a repatriation ceremony. The Hojo currency plate, which dates back to 1893 during the Joseon Dynasty...
