Ex-prison camp guard convicted

ATLANTA — A man convicted of getting U.S. citizenship fraudulently after prosecutors said he failed to disclose he was a guard at a concentration camp during the Bosnian War has been sentenced to serve nearly five years in federal prison.

Mladen Mitrovic was found guilty in May of giving false answers on his naturalization application form. Mitrovic said on that application in 2002 he hadn’t ever persecuted anyone because of race, religion or national origin. Prosecutors said he beat prisoners at the camp.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg on Friday sentenced Mitrovic to serve four years and nine months in prison. She also granted prosecutors’ request to revoke his citizenship and said he would likely be deported after he serves his prison sentence. Mitrovic’s attorneys have said they’ll appeal.

Calif. judge transfer

A California judge who came under fire and was the subject of a recall campaign for his sentencing decisions in a Stanford University sexual assault case will be transferred after he asked to be removed from hearing criminal cases.

The judge, Aaron Persky, of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, will be moved to the civil division in San Jose, Calif., effective Sept. 6, according to an announcement late Thursday.

Road kill moose thieves

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Thieves coming across dead moose on Alaska roads are stealing the carcasses, making away with hundreds of pounds of meat that normally goes to a program run by state troopers that gives it to the needy and others willing to butcher the carcasses, officials said Wednesday.

Two moose killed recently by cars or trucks were set to be picked up by the trooper-sponsored program that alerts the Alaska Moose Federation so carcasses can be quickly delivered to recipients on a state troopers’ list of people who want them.

But federation drivers could not find the two dead moose in July and August when they went to roadkill sites between Anchorage and Denali National Park, said the federation’s director, Don Dyer.

Amtrak loan

WILMINGTON, Del. — Amtrak is receiving a $2.45 billion loan from the federal government to buy new trains, upgrade tracks and make platform improvements along the busy Northeast corridor, the largest such loan ever by the Department of Transportation, officials announced Friday.

Terms of the loan were not immediately available, but Amtrak said the money would be repaid through growth in revenues from Northeast Corridor operations.

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