News from November 2013
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Due to improvements to park roads and parking lots, the reopening of the Long Pine Key Campground will be delayed due to paving work. It was previously announced that it would reopen on Nov. 15, however that is now being delayed until mid-December. In the interim, those desiring to camp will be able to utilize the Flamingo Campground instead.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Georges Marius Hyatt, 47, of Moriarty, N.M., was sentenced earlier today to 14 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his bank robbery conviction and for violating the terms of his supervised release on prior convictions. Hyatt also was ordered to pay restitution to the banks that were the victims of his criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Kansas City, Mo., men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing firearms following a high-speed car chase that ended with a collision that killed an employee of the Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, 31-year-old Texas Mexican Mafia member Eliseo Sanchez, III, of Crystal City was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for conspiring to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute plus an additional 24 months in federal prison for violating supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that BENJAMIN CHOUCHANE, a former sales broker, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud. CHOUCHANE - along with Marek...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Defendant falsely represented himself as a naturopathic doctor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Montgomery, AL - Kevin Jackson of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to serve 102 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release, along with an order to pay $150,840.49 in restitution, for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George L. Beck Jr. Jackson had previously pled guilty to access device fraud and to aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials remind park visitors to exercise caution as they view and photograph wildlife to best protect both the animals and themselves. Park Rangers have recently received numerous reports of increased interactions between visitors and wildlife such as bears, white-tailed deer, and elk.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Shaun Linko opened fire on a Lynn Street residence in Parkersburg.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: The Energy Department today announced the opening of the application periods for six regional competitions that are part of the 2014 U.S. Department of Energy National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition. The competition aims to inspires university teams and promote entrepreneurship in clean energy technologies that will boost American competitiveness, bring cutting-edge clean energy solutions to the market, and strengthen our economic prosperity.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: A team of researchers at NIST's Antenna Metrology Lab in Boulder, CO has devised a first-of-its-kind system - combining a precision 3-meter industrial robot arm with a metrology-grade laser tracker and other apparatus - that can measure an antenna's performance from every point in a spherical area around it, determine its position to within 25 micrometers (RMS) while it is moving, and do it all repeatably.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Friends of Acadia and Acadia National Park invite artists and graphic designers nationwide to design a logo celebrating the park's 100th anniversary in the year 2016. The winning entry in the Acadia National Park Centennial Celebration Logo Contest will receive a prize of $3,000 and their design will appear on publications, merchandise, online, and elsewhere throughout the centennial celebration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced that on Nov. 13, 2013, Tahlene Shaw Serawop, a 25-year-old Ute Tribal Member, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal to 21 months imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Antovany Acosta, also known as "Tony," 33, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 150 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota, sitting in Minneapolis, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation, and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Any sentence is determined by a federal district judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Local Prosecutors, Investigators Among A Small Number Of Nationwide Winners.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Today, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV) issued the following statements after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) named the members selected to serve on the House-Senate conference committee tasked with resolving the differences between the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (H.R. 3080) and the Senate’s version of the water resources legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New Jersey Division announced special agents of the DEA and FBI arrested a pharmacist early this morning in Jersey City, N.J., on federal charges alleging he assembled equipment for an illegal drug lab.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas jewelry store owner was sentenced today to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $196,000 in restitution for purchasing and selling luxury jewelry that he knew was stolen, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOSEPH LOMBARDO, the founder and managing director of Prim Capital Corporation (“Prim"), pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to mail fraud and conspiracy to obstruct a grand jury investigation in...
