News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Butte, on Oct. 25, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JOSHUA HAMPTON MURPHY, a 29-year-old resident of Flint, Michigan, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A leading member of a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy was sentenced yesterday after a multi-year FBI task force investigation into illegal activity in Boston’s Chinatown.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Oct. 25, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individuals were arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Florida man Craig Lee Workman, age 42, pleaded guilty before Judge William K. Sessions in federal court in Burlington yesterday to a fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Four individuals involved in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine were sentenced on Oct. 23, 2013, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Tim Smith, 29, of Erwin, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 92 months in prison. Crystal Williams, 40, of Erwin, Tenn., was...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico, which includes Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas, announces plans to hold rotational Oil and Gas Lease Sales for Federal mineral estate. Currently, BLM New Mexico offers for lease Federal mineral estate four times a year and is the only State that does not rotate...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Kamelia No Moccasin, a/k/a Kamelia Shoulders, age 29, of Parmelee, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Oct. 24, 2013, and pled guilty to Failure to Appear.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: A program about mysterious legends and stories of the Cumberland Plateau will take place at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Bandy Creek Interpretation and Education Building located beside Bandy Creek Visitor Center. Visitors will learn how stories get started and hear legends that take place on or near the land that became the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Participants will also have the opportunity to tell a favorite story.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: Members of International Drug Trafficking Organization.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today published the final environmental impact statement (EIS) analyzing the impacts of renewing 25 livestock grazing permits on allotments in the Jump Creek, Succor Creek, and Cow Creek watersheds in western Owyhee County. The agency will issue Proposed Decisions...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, Matthew Boyd, Chief, Miami Gardens Police Department...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: Jackson residents and park visitors are reminded that two roads within Grand Teton National Park will close to vehicle traffic for the season on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. These seasonal closures include the length of the Teton Park Road between Taggart Lake parking area and Signal Mountain Lodge parking lot, as well as the Moose-Wilson Road between Granite Canyon and Death Canyon trailheads.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: With public participation at an all-time high after six prior events in three years, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take Back Day at thousands of sites across America on Saturday the 26th. These...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretary Donovan: It has been about a year since Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coast. This superstorm tragically ended the lives of 147 in the United States and caused billions of dollars in damages across 24 states.[1] At the beginning of this year, Congress passed and the President...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: Indianapolis - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Eric L. Barnes, age 48, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in the Southern District of Indiana for making false statements in connection with the testing of pipeline welds at a natural gas pipeline compressor station Bainbridge, IN.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, and Rear Admiral John H. Korn, Commander, 7th Coast Guard District, announce the indictment of six defendants following last week’s vessel capsize that resulted in the deaths of four women.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Francisco Chao-Martinez, 31, and five others have been ordered to prison for their roles in a conspiracy to transport or harbor aliens illegally present in the country, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Mexican National Chao-Martinez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Oct. 24, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, the following individuals were arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - David E. Harris, 32, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a prison term of four years and two months for stabbing a man earlier this year at an apartment building in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
