News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - A jury convicted a Utica, New York resident of federal drug felony charges following a four day jury trial, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio, 55-year-old Victor Zamarron, a former civilian contractor at Brooks Army Medical Center, was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison followed by 50 years of supervised release for downloading child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Defendant Laundered Tens of Thousands of Dollars of Supposed Drug Trafficking Proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) railed against the shortcomings of ObamaCare and said the House-passed bill to fund the government through December 15 and defund the President’s signature domestic legislation was a strong first step towards getting rid of the misguided law.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) reacted to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA). The bi-annual...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The effect of climate change on some trees harvested for paper and wood may not be quite as severe as expected, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Auburn, Ala.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. -Christopher Leone, owner of Leone Family Chiropractic, 1019 S. 6th Street, Springfield, Ill., today waived indictment and pleaded guilty to submitting fraudulent bills for services to private insurance companies and the Medicare program. Leone appeared today before U.S. Magistrate...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: (NEW YORK) - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Aaron Ford, the Special Agent in Charge of the Newark Office of the Federal Bureau of (FBI), Raymond W. Kelly, ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is sponsoring a clean-up day to focus on the O&W Road in the park on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013. The roadbed follows the former rail line of the Oneida & Western (O&W), a short coal and goods hauling railroad that ran between Oneida and Jamestown...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Peter I. Hendy, II, 33, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend’s four-year-old son, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A federal jury sitting in Victoria has convicted Romanian national Doru Gabriel Trifu, 28, on all 33 counts as charged in an Internet fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdicts late yesterday following a four-day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Butte County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the National Park Service is continuing the search for one of the two missing day-hikers from the Craters of the Moon National Monument near Arco, Idaho. One of the missing hikers was found Wednesday afternoon by an Army National Guard helicopter.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Sept. 26, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, SERGIO ALEJANDRO LOPEZ, a 37-year-old resident of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced to a term of.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) reacted to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA). The bi-annual...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: A man who fired a shotgun out of a car window in Calmar, Iowa, pled guilty in federal court in Cedar Rapids on Sept. 25, 2013, to unlawfully possessing the shotgun and a rifle.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Defendant Sentenced to Time Served. ALBANY, NEW YORK-IGNACIO HERNANDEZ-LOPEZ, age 39, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty and was sentenced today in United States District Court in Albany before United States District Court Judge Mae A. D’Agostino to one count of re-entry by a previously removed alien...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MARKIS R. ALLEN, 21, of Greenville, North Carolinato 120 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Nixa, Mo., contractor who was hired to repair tornado damage at the Joplin residence of an elderly couple pleaded guilty in federal court today to a fraud scheme in which he stole more than $73,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Jaime Meza-Gonzalez, 47, and Saul Arellano-Alvarado, 41, both of Idaho Falls, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to federal drug charges, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Meza-Gonzalez pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, aiding and abetting; Arellano-Alvarado pleaded guilty to distributing five grams or more of methamphetamine.
