News from March 2013
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the death of Hugo Chavez:
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - At approximately 3:15 p.m. on Monday, March 4, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received notification from the Arizona Department of Public Safety that a man might be on his way to the park with the intent of harming himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Six men pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from the operation of a ring that produced and sold false identification documents in the Columbia Heights area of Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and John P. Torres, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington, D.C. field office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Instant Tax Service Manager Also Ordered to Pay $1,665,000 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ernest Brian Tucker, 59, of Corrales, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 97 months in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for his child pornography conviction. Tucker will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence. Tucker’s sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich, II, of Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) in El Paso, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 4, 2013, Harry McCabe, Sr., 52, of Woodsprings, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg to a cumulative sentence of 166 months imprisonment. McCabe was found guilty by a federal jury on Nov. 29, 2012, of one count of assault with a dangerous weapon, one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury, and two counts of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: A two-count indictment was filed charging a Cleveland woman with crimes related to the misuse of more than $6,000 in federal financial aid, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: The Rio Grande Natural Area Commission will meet Thursday, March 14 from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Bureau of Land Management Front Range District office, 3028 East Main St., Cañon City, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man has been charged with bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today that a man from Colombia, charged in an international cocaine conspiracy in 2010, made his initial appearance in federal court today after he was ordered to be extradited to the United States from Colombia.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Few substances are tracked more closely and stored more carefully than the nuclear waste produced at power plants and elsewhere. So the properties of the large cylindrical containers used to hold material such as spent fuel rods must be known to a high accuracy. But it is very difficult to determine...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Part of $30 Billion Impact Which Supports 252,000 Jobs Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: MONROE, La.: The U.S. Attorney’s Office has informed United States District Judge Donald E. Walter that it consents to a new trial in United States v. Robert “Red" Stevens and Arthur Gilmore, Jr., two former Monroe City Councilmen indicted for racketeering and extortion. Thereafter, the Court continued...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Dwayne Jamal Hubbard, 24, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Anna J. Brown to 168 months in prison, to be followed by a five-year term of supervised release. The federal charges were filed in May 2012 after an investigation led by the FBI’s Child Exploitation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man was charged in federal court in connection to crimes committed while in his official capacity as a Watertown police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Don Brooks, age 19, and Antoine Brooks, age 21, both residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, were charged in a 9-count superseding indictment. In addition to the charges brought in the original indictment, the charges in the superseding indictment include discharging a firearm in furtherance...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
Release: The House Agriculture Committee held a hearing today to review the state of the rural economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men, and the import-export company they allegedly used to move millions of dollars linked to illegal activity from the United States to Mexico, are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon after being indicted on federal charges of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is changing the way it broadcasts time signals that synchronize radio-controlled "atomic" clocks and watches to official U.S. time in ways that will enable new radio-controlled timepieces to be significantly more robust and reliable.
