News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office and DEA announce nearly 2.5 tons collected, surpassing previous record amount from April.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Dear Senator Durbin: I applaud your decision to hold a hearing on “the civil rights implications when racial profiling and ‘stand your ground’ laws mix."[1]. Over the last year, the Trayvon Martin shooting and the acquittal of his admitted killer have reignited a national conversation about the significant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway sentenced David Lahn (60, Orlando) yesterday to 8 years in federal prison for distributing and attempting to distribute child pornography. Lahn is also required to register as a sex offender and to serve a 20-year term of supervision, following his release from prison. The court also ordered Lahn to forfeit his computer equipment. Lahn pleaded guilty on June 26, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rosabelle Ben, 58, a member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon to being an accessory to the sexual abuse of a minor. Under the terms of her plea agreement, Rosabelle Ben will be sentenced to a federal prison term within the range...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Napier illegally mailed package containing oxycodone tablets, arrested by undercover officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that John Charles Stevenson (45, Rincon, Georgia) pleaded guilty to receiving videos and images depicting child pornography. Stevenson faces a mandatory minimum penalty of not less than 5 years and up to 20 years in federal prison and a potential life term of supervised release. Stevenson has been in custody since his arrest. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, announced today that after undergoing a six-week curriculum taught by Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) officers, over 75 fifth grade students at P.C. Lujan Elementary School will be receiving their certificates of completion on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, at 9:00 A.M., in the school's cafeteria.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida -Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II today sentenced Freddie L. Mitchell, II to 37 months in federal prison for conspiracy to file a false tax claim with the government. Mitchell pleaded guilty to the offense on March 8, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Remembering Camp Sherman: A Commemoration of Chillicothe's Contribution to World War I. Date: November 9- 10, 2013. Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, daily. Location: Mound City Group Visitor Center. "Camp Sherman: In Retrospect" is an audiotape and slide show presentation that was first produced in 1982 from oral...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Ray Hatton III, 31, of Lafayette, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to 121 months in prison and a lifetime...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 32-year-old former Lehighton resident pleaded guilty today to receiving and distributing child pornography before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) reiterated the need for concrete, structural reforms to the nation’s entitlement programs a means of reducing the debt and urged his colleagues to join him in supporting S. J. Res. 26, a resolution to disapprove of the President’s exercise of authority to suspend the debt limit. The Senate is slated to vote on the measure later today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: President Eisenhower got along famously with his mother-in-law, Elivera Carlson Doud. Mrs. Doud was so close to her daughter, Mamie, and her son-in-law, that she had her own room in both the White House and at the Gettysburg farm. She would regularly spend several months away from her Denver home dividing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Oct. 29, 2013, Michael E. Mays, 53, of Centralia, IL, pled guilty to a two-count indictment charging that he engaged in a scheme to commit health care fraud and that he made false statements...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Today, John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, joined former Judiciary Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wisc.) and 79 other members of the House in introducing H.R. 3361, the USA FREEDOM Act: United and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Napier illegally mailed package containing oxycodone tablets, arrested by undercover officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Thomas S. Kantzos, 45, of Fort Worth, Texas, a former officer with the Arlington Police Department (APD), appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver and pleaded guilty to an Indictment charging exceeding access to a protected computer, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement after the Senate approved the nomination of Richard Griffin to serve as General Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Griffin’s nomination was cleared by the Senate HELP Committee in September.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on “EPA’s Regulatory Threat to Affordable, Reliable Energy: The Perspective of Coal Communities." Today’s hearing featured witnesses from communities particularly reliant on coal...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Annapolis, MD -- The National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office announces the appointment of 23 members to the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail Advisory Council.Members of the Council, appointed by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, will consult with the Secretary and the National Park Service on matters related to the trail, including trail development, public access, recreation opportunities, and educational programs along the trail route.
