News from August 2013
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) generated over $33.9 million for leasing rights on parcels offered at the BLM's quarterly federal oil and gas lease auction held Aug. 6, in Cheyenne. Almost half of the bid and rental receipts go to the State of Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Carmella Martinez, 42, and her husband Paul G. Martinez, 44, both of Arroyo Seco, N.M., each pleaded guilty this morning to conspiracy to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and to commit theft of government property. The guilty pleas were announced by U.S. Attorney...
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We appreciate your Administration’s continued efforts to implement the strategy to defeat the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as outlined in the bipartisan Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act (P.L. 111-172). We believe it is important that the United...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) giving conditional approval to Lake Charles Exports LLC to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Louisiana to countries not covered by free trade agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on August 7, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom, DAVID RUSSELL HARGROVE, a 33-year-old resident of Livingston, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Little Rock District Office (DEA), and Kirk R. Lane, Chief of Police for the Benton Police Department (BPD), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA- Donald Terry Dubose, aka “Terry Dubose," 65, of Panama City Beach, Florida; Elwood Ladon West, aka “Woody West," 39 of Monroeville, Alabama; and Frank Alfred Baker, 61, of Marianna, Florida, have been charged by a Federal Grand Jury with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MUJAHID MUHAMMED, also known as “Doughboy," 28, of New Haven, pleaded guilty before Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack cocaine").
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a White River, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Burglary and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced ANTHONY EARL RIVERS, 25, of Mount Olive, to 46 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release upon conviction for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g) and 924.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five Newark residents are charged as players in a conspiracy to sell heroin and prescription pills out of a retail store in the city, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on the Department of Energy’s approval of a license to Lake Charles Exports to ship up to 2 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas (LNG) a day to nations with which the United States does not have free trade agreements:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man charged with Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding has pled guilty to the charges and was sentenced on August 5, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
Release: Washington, DC, August 6, 2013 -Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program leads to improved food security, particularly among low-income children, according to the findings of Measuring the Effect of SNAP Participation on Food Security released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Mr. Kenneth E. Henderson, age 49, of Tifton, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty, on July 29, 2013, to one count of receipt of child pornography before the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ryan Ellis, a/k/a" Dude", “Calvin", “Piles", 34, formerly of Greenbush, Maine; Alan J. Ketchen, a/k/a “AJ", “Hobbes", 40, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Plainfield, N.J., woman admitted today to playing a role in three armed robberies of banks in Somerset and Middlesex, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Laquan Smith was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for the armed robbery of eight businesses and for possession of a stolen firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Mr. Jonathan Moody, age 25, of Nashville, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty on July 31, 2013, to two counts of counterfeiting involving United States currency. The guilty plea was entered before the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Lorena Torres-Flores, 39, a Mexican national formerly living in Jerome, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to one count of making a false statement in an application for a passport, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
