News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport has returned an indictment charging Ralph Crozier, 61, an attorney based in Seymour, with federal money laundering offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 24, 2013. Beginning on Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Health will continue its review of the Medicare benefit design, while the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will examine...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a special 90 minute program in Lookout Valley at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 30, 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Tomorrow House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) will deliver the weekly Republican address. During the address, Chairman Kline will urge President Obama to demonstrate leadership in the student loan interest rate debate, and encourage the Senate to take action on the long-term, market-based solution students and families need.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Daris A. Quinn, a/k/a “DQ," 25, Belleville, IL, was arraigned today, June 21, 2013, on a four-count Indictment charging, in Count 1, Distribution of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Patrick C. Harris, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Randall C. Coleman announced the sentencing of former State Representative Hudson Hallum, age 31, and his father, Kent Hallum...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 42-year-old Fridley man pleaded guilty to robbing two Twin Cities’ shoe stores in early January. Peter Christopher Nunn specifically pleaded guilty to two counts of interference with commerce by robbery, pursuant to the Hobbs Act. Nunn, who was indicted on February 5, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Maurice Colbert, age 59, of Baltimore, Maryland on charges of armed bank robbery, forcing a bank employee at gunpoint to accompany him around that bank, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, June 26, he will convene a hearing on reforming the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an agency that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton referred to as “defunct"...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: MOOSE, WY - Thursday, June 20 became another rigorous day for park rangers at Grand Teton National Park. Numerous rangers responded to a cardiac arrest incident in Buffalo Valley, while other rangers handled two back-to-back rescue missions in the Tetons; one resulted in a fatality.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Port Alsworth, Alaska - The Kristin Creek Fire continues to burn in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve and has grown from 5 acres, as reported on June 18, to 635 acres as of June 21 at approximately 3:00 p.m. The fire is currently staffed by four helitack firefighters who conducted structure protection...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A former legislative aide to an Illinois state representative, Lloyd Kelly, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Springfield next week for an initial pretrial conference related to an indictment that charges Kelly with a single count of mail fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today sent a letter to Jared Blumenfeld, Region 9 Administrator of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Release No.: 2013-45. Contacts: Christie Vanover, National Park Service, 702-283-2344. SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING CHICAGO MAN. BOULDER CITY, Nev. - The National Park Service and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department continued searching June 21 for a Chicago man who went missing at Lake Mead June...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AMAURY P’DILLA, also known as “Audi," 32, of New York, N.Y., was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today demanded China end its unjustified and unscientific bans on U.S. beef and pork exports and called for a thorough review of the Shuangu Group’s planned acquisition of Smithfield Foods.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area announces a 45-minute, ranger-led interpretive program about Big South Fork's largest mammal: American Black Bear. Please come and enjoy an evening outdoors with Ranger Debby Zimmerman at the campfire circle to learn more about a myriad of bear-related...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raymond Berger, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arrested today by agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on an indictment charging him with enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. Berger made his initial appearance in federal court this morning and is temporarily detained pending his arraignment and a detention hearing, both of which are scheduled for June 24, 2013.
