News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Three residents of Johnstown, Pa., and a resident of Philadelphia, Pa., have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: “Today I am very pleased to welcome Dr. David Weil as the nominee to administer the Wage and Hour Division at the Department of Labor. The Wage and Hour Division oversees some of the most fundamental protections for American workers: it ensures that people are paid fairly in accordance with our minimum...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The 2014 Southeast Utah Group (Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments) Annual Pass is now available for purchase ($25).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Richard John Medina aka “El Guero," 40, of Laredo, has entered a plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of multiple firearms and grenades, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES -- A former detective with the San Luis Obispo Police Department has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for extorting sources he cultivated while working on a narcotics task force.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This afternoon at 1 p.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing at which Secretary of State John Kerry will testify before the Committee to answer questions about the interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program finalized recently between Iran, the United States, and other leading nations. The hearing is entitled “The Iran Nuclear Deal: Does it Further U.S. National Security? ".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Crystal M. Washington, aka Crystal Bureau, 53, has been convicted on three counts as charged by a federal jury sitting in Houston, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Washington was employed as a parole officer at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) office located on Hamilton Street in Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Kingston resident was indicted by a federal grand jury today for trafficking in illegal drugs and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on December 9, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, MICHAEL DWAINE FREEMAN, a 64-year-old resident of Anaconda, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney, Kenyen Brown announces that Delaine Williams, a 27 year old Satsuma resident was sentenced today for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme conducted at the Midtown Mortgage brokerage house. Williams falsified documents on a mortgage loan application so that it would be approved.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service and the Theodore Roosevelt Nature and History Association announced the win ner of the second Annual "Picture Yourself in Theodore Roosevelt National Park" Photo Contest on Saturday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 9, 2013, U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton sentenced Abel Doncel de la Torre-Gonzalez, 34, of Mexico D.F., Ed. De Mexico, MX, to seven years in prison for his role in a hostage taking. De la Torre was the last of three hostage takers sentenced to prison in this matter. Espiridion...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) generated $1,979,581 during its quarterly oil and gas competitive lease sale held in Reno on Dec. 10, selling 54 parcels that comprised 93,816 acres. The sale high bid of $135,044 for a 2,548-acre parcel at $53 per acre was made by Housing Int., LLC., of Belvedere...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Miguel Angel Chavarria-Martinez, 28, a Honduran national illegally in the United States, has entered a guilty plea to eluding and high speed flight from a Border Patrol (BP) checkpoint, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - In preparation for the opening of the National Park Service Visitor Information Center located in the Beaufort Town Hall, Cape Lookout National Seashore would like to announce volunteer opportunities at this new gateway to the national seashore.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The famed journalist Grantland Rice once wrote, “You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.".
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The 2014 Southeast Utah Group (Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments) Annual Pass is now available for purchase ($25).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office, announce that Lionell Sanders, a/k/a “Pistol," a/k/a “Briscoe," 19, of Miami, pled guilty yesterday...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to possessing with the intent to distribute crack cocaine, to illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. ERIC...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Three men from the northern Nevada area have been sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for their guilty pleas to child pornography crimes, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
