News from August 2013
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Park rangers at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park are interpreting the history of the famous Volcano House sm, one step at a time. A new, one-hour, ranger-guided walk takes visitors on a fun, anecdote-filled journey through the various incarnations of the Volcano House, which "officially" began in 1846 as a grass house on the rim of Kīlauea Caldera.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jocelyn Samuels, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division and Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced today that former North Carolina Department of Correction’s Division of Community Corrections Probation Officer Willie...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: Old Fall River Road reopened today at 5:00 p.m. Damage caused from severe weather on Wednesday and additional heavy rains last night kept the road closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Arizona. Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. BASHAS’ INC. TO PAY RESTITUTION FOR MEAT MISLABELING. PHOENIX - John S. Leonardo, United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, announced today that Bashas’ Inc. (“Bashas’"), a family-owned Arizona corporation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Marco Antonio Echeverria, 25, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below in connection with the Obama administration's updated recommendations on the safe handling and storage of ammonium nitrate, as well as emergency planning procedures.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: FOREMAN, RENATA R., age 33, a resident of New Orleans, was charged in a three count bill of information filed today with theft of government funds, mail fraud and identity theft related to her scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Education, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas- Rigoberto Torres, 39, a legal permanent resident from New Jersey, has been ordered to federal prison as a result of his conviction of possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Torres pleaded guilty May 13, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Yesterday, a federal grand jury in San Francisco returned an indictment charging Kevin Tyrone Buford with one count of aiding and abetting armed bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a grand jury has handed down a two count indictment charging Peter Viera, 20, of Tonawanda, N.Y., with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to import, methylone, a Schedule I controlled substance. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: This morning, Friday, Aug. 30, park rangers received a cell phone call that a 53-year-old man was suffering distress at a backcountry campsite near the North Inlet Trail. Due to a poor cell phone connection the initial information was unclear. A member of the man's hiking group hiked out 7 miles to...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Superintendent Patrick M. Kenney announces that permits for temporary duck blinds will be available at the Harkers Island Visitor Center beginning Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., and thereafter Monday through Friday, except holidays.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Dana Sue Hales, 41, has entered a plea of guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, possessing stolen mail and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Bernard Butler, acting special agent in charge, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Rigoberto Torres, 39, a legal permanent resident from New Jersey, has been ordered to federal prison as a result of his conviction of possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Torres pleaded guilty May 13, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: A former office manager at the defunct health care provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN) was sentenced today in Miami to serve 68 months in prison for her role in a fraud scheme that resulted in more than $63 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Florida Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas-Jose Francisco Madrigal, 43, of Plainview, Texas, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography. Madrigal, who is on bond, faces a statutory penalty of not less than 15 years or more than 30 years in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Freeman Lewis, also known as “Free," 31, of New Haven, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
