News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - James D. Orr, 76, and Eugene A. Biegert, 69, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Thomas N. VerHage, 68, of Kentwood, Michigan were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to substantial fines following their guilty pleas to charges of the felony misbranding of drugs while working...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA - Nov. 15, 2013 - To re-open the government, Congress provided funds at Fiscal Year 2013 levels through January 15 - final funding for Fiscal Year 2014 will not be resolved before then. Given the continuing fiscal uncertainty, the National Park Service will exercise extreme caution in spending to ensure that available funding is directed to the highest resource priorities and serves the most visitors.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, November 19th at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN) will hold a hearing entitled, “Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs: Improving the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced thatScott William Wood, 31, of Zwolle, La., was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Maurice S. Hicks to 10 years in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Murdo, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on November 7, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A total of 31 individuals are now in custody following an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) operation yesterday, led by special agents of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and officers from the Stephenville Police Department, on conspiracy and drug trafficking charges outlined...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Kenneth Kuban Previously Admitted To Using Craigslist To Stalk An Ex-Girlfriend.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: The price of most hard-copy Pacific Northwest Recreation Series, Wilderness, Ranger District, and Special Area maps will increase Jan. 1, 2014, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management announced today. This is the first price increase for these maps in seven years. Meanwhile, purchasing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A former Watertown Police Officer was sentenced today for passing false prescriptions, using a stolen identify.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, today announced that three bipartisan health bills have been approved by Congress and now head to the President’s desk. The CHIMP Act Amendments of 2013 passed last night as part of a package that also included the...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., voted in favor of H.R.3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act. Chairman Issa issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: $3 Million. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Wendy Weikal-Beauchat, age 46, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering before U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III. According to United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - EHRICK PREIS was sentenced to 37 months in prison. On six occasions between December 2012 and March 2013 in St. Charles County, he distributed at total of 858 units of LSD to undercover law enforcement personnel in exchange for more than $6,000. During the transactions, Preis made statements...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced KURT ALLEN BENNETT, 41, of Fort Bragg, North Carolinato 36 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: RONALD BREAUX, age 66, of Raceland, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to 151 months in prison for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. Judge Brown also ordered the defendant to pay $1,750 to one of the victims whose images he downloaded. After his term of imprisonment BREAUX will be placed on supervised release for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that William Thomas Holland III, 31, of Norfolk, Va., was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg to 24 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony and for possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He pleaded guilty July 11, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Superintendent H. Lane Baker has announced the seasonal operating hours of the three National Park Service sites in Cochise County - Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, and Fort Bowie National Historic Site. New this year, all three park visitor centers will be open on Thanksgiving...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced that a federal jury in Jacksonville today has found Travis Rocky Dixon (35, Palatka) guilty of receiving and possessing videos of child pornography using the Internet. Dixon faces a minimum of 5 years, up to 20 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher Martin, 27, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 29 years in prison on charges stemming from the May 2010 murder of his mother and a subsequent attack on his brother, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Independence on Friday, Nov. 29, and Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013.
