News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brandon H. Schnetzka, 40, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg. The indictment charges Schnetzka with one count of Impersonating an Officer or Employee of the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: MOOSE, WY - Nearly to 200 Jackson Hole Middle School 7th grade students joined Grand Teton National Park, Trout Unlimited, Teton Science Schools and Wyoming Game and Fish biologists at the Gros Ventre Campground on September 24 and 25 to participate in Adopt-a-Trout Field Days.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Organization of American States Revitalization and Reform Act of 2013, legislation introduced by Chairman Menendez in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, passed Congress and is set to become law with the President’s signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Following a two-week jury trial, the 10th person charged in a Las Vegas mortgage fraud scheme that caused approximately $15 million in losses to the lenders and financial institutions, was convicted today of conspiracy and fraud charges, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Walt Green announced that ADRIAN K. THOMPSON, age 35, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge James J. Brady to serve 84 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release after imprisonment. The sentence...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Dominican Republic’s Dirección General de Aduanas (DGA) signed a letter of intent Thursday to establish a trade transparency unit in Santo Domingo to exchange information and promote the detection of trade-based money laundering and commercial fraud violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Eric Jensen, age 37, and Ryan Jensen, age 33, brothers who owned and operated Jensen Farms, located in Granada, Colorado, presented themselves to U.S. Marshals in Denver today, where taken into custody on federal charges brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with the Food and Drug Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Camilo Torres-Martinez, aka Fritanga (41, Colombia), yesterday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import into the United States five kilograms or more of cocaine; conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five kilograms or...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Byron Thomas Warnes, age 60, of Silverthorne, Colorado, was charged by an Information in Denver yesterday, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2013, for attempting to interfere with the administration of IRS laws, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd announced. Warnes waived his right to be indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Boyd Wallace Higginbotham, Jr. (55) to life in federal prison for murdering fellow inmate Steven Pritchard. A federal jury found Higginbotham guilty of first degree murder following a trial that concluded on Aug. 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ramon Ignacio Rosa-Santos, 32, of Philadelphia, was charged today in an Indictment with passport fraud and falsely claiming to be a United States citizen, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the Indictment, Rosa-Santos, an alien and a native and citizen of...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after it was revealed that the Obama Administration is delaying the launch of the small business health insurance exchanges, because of security concerns...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: On Sept. 17, 2013, a federal grand jury sitting in East St. Louis indicted Roderick L. Taylor, 22, and Charmonequette Reynolds, 21, with Interference with Commerce by Robbery, which is a violation of the Hobbs Act, as well as with a charge of Use of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA- United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced today that the last of three Iowa restaurant owners and operators was sentenced for harboring illegal aliens and for filing false statements on the restaurant’s tax returns by not listing the illegal aliens as employees.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senators Tom Carper, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Senator Chris Coons (both D-Del.) commended the passage of the Congressional Award Program Reauthorization Act of 2013 (S.1348). The Senate passed the measure unanimously.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced an information was filed against Keith A. Prather, age 25, of Toledo. The charge relates to the failure to register as a sex offender under the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Charles H. Morrison III, 25, of Columbus, Ohio and James Allen Banks, 23, of Marion, Ohio have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to burglarizing...
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, praised the Senate passage of the House-amended Organization of American States Revitalization and Reform Act of 2013 -- legislation intended to reform and modernize the OAS while strengthening U.S. ties to the regional body.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Superintendent John J. Donahue announces that the Friends of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the National Park Service will sponsor Butterflies of the World, a Family Fun Day program, on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. until noon. The program...
