News from December 2013
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are stepping up their efforts to help fight deadly swine viruses that are prevalent in other countries and pose a threat to the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) took to the Senate Floor to urge his colleagues to confirm the Nomination of Jeh Johnson to be the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - STUART ALAN MEAD (61, of Brant Lake New York) was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2013 by Senior United States District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn to 1 year of incarceration, 2 years of supervised release, 200 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine for evading federal income tax...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Cancer Clinic Purchased Unapproved Drugs For Three Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Kimberly Y. Drummond, age 47, of Middletown, Delaware, pled guilty to one count of embezzlement from a federally insured financial institution. Drummond, who will be sentenced on April 3, 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Seven individuals from central Massachusetts were charged today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for operating a million dollar marijuana conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Friday Russell John Thaxton, 48, of Morrisville, was presented in United States District Court for arraignment on an indictment charging him with pharmacy robbery. Thaxton entered a not guilty plea. United States Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy granted the government=s motion to detain Thaxton pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Dec. 12, 2013, Scott Lavertue, 45, of Vershire, Vermont, was sentenced to five years of probation, including a four-month period of home confinement, and restitution in the amount of $24,637.29.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Francis Hamblin, 30, of Fort Ann, New York, entered a not guilty plea to a one-count indictment charging that he used counterfeit currency to purchase an ATV in Enosburg, Vermont. Hamblin was ordered detained, without bail, pending trial by Magistrate-Judge John Conroy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Denver - Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Luke Franey of the Denver Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), today announced the activation of the ATF National Response Team (NRT) to join the investigation of the Dec. 14th, commercial building fire, at 801 South Cherry, ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: The National Park Service and the Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) are seeking applicants for two research fellowships that are available to individuals wishing to conduct research in Denali National Park and Preserve and other arctic and subarctic Alaska national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, Andersonville National Historic Site will again hold its Night Museum event. This Night Museum event will be the first program in observance of the 150th anniversary of the Andersonville prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Joseph C. M. Krist, 41, has been convicted of bank robbery and using a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The Corpus Christi federal jury convicted Krist following a two-day trial and less than three hours of deliberation.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today introduced H. Res. 447, “Supporting the Democratic and European Aspirations of the People of Ukraine, and Their Right to Choose Their Own Future Free of Intimidation and Fear." The resolution...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that three Southcentral men plead guilty and were sentenced for violating the Lacey Act in the illegal hunting, take and transport of two bull moose shot in Denali National Park in September, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NICHOLAS CALAMARAS, 30, of New Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. A Wichita man who owned a business that sold scooters has pleaded guilty to tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2013
News Release: A Toledo man was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine for his role in the illegal removal and disposal of asbestos-containing material, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
