News published on Federal Newswire in September 2013

News from September 2013


Pecos River Spikes as Arroyo Flows Merge

News Release: CARLSBAD, NM - Flows from Dark Canyon Arroyo reached Carlsbad this afternoon creating a spike in Pecos River flows.


News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Roman Catholic priest was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography. “This sexual predator victimized five young children over a period of...


ICE continues appeal for public's help to identify 'John Doe' and locate other fugitives on newly launched app

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is continuing its public appeal for tips leading to the identification of an unknown man wanted for questioning about the production of child pornography involving a 10 to 12-year-old girl.


District Pediatrician Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Child Pornography-Doctor Arrested After Search Of His Office In May 2013-

News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Paul Dickey, 74, a pediatrician from Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a federal charge of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).


Two Akron Men Indicted On Methamphetamine Charges

News Release: Two Akron men were indicted on charges of possession with intent to distribute more than two kilograms of methamphetamine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.


NOAA launches website holding millions of chemical analyses from Deepwater Horizon oil spill

News Release: NOAA was one of the principal agencies responding to the Macondo well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, and is the official ocean data archivist for the federal government. While earlier versions of the data were made available during and shortly after the response, it took three years for NOAA employees and contractors to painstakingly catalog each piece of data into this final form.


Philadelphia Man Charged In Identity Theft Scheme

News Release: Angel Nathan Melendez, 24, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with aggravated identity theft and passport fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Melendez secured a United States passport using his own photograph but another person’s name, date of birth, and social security number.


Twice Convicted Child Rapist Pleads Guilty To Online Distribution Of Child Pornography

News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Sean Lawrence, age 40, of Kansas City, Missouri, pled guilty today to Transportation of Child Pornography, in violation of federal law. Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced the guilty plea following a hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.


Rockford Man Sentenced To 77 Months In Federal Prison On Gun Charge

News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 77 months in prison without parole, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Jeffrey L. Lottie, 27, pled guilty to the charge on June 3, 2013.


Fifth Defendant Sentenced In Unemployment Insurance Fraud Cases

News Release: South Bend, Indiana - United States Attorney David Capp announced today that since May 2013, as a result of an investigation conducted by the United States Department of Labor-Office of the Inspector General and the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, the United States Attorney’s Office for...


Woman Sentenced For Assault Resulting In Serious Bodily Injury

News Release: U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced that on September 9, 2013, twenty-eight year old Cecelia Gayle Shakespeare, an enrolled Northern Arapaho Tribal member, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge Nancy Freudenthal to 24 months imprisonment, two years of supervised release...


News Release: HOUSTON - With the sentencing of six defendants today, 11 of the total 14 charged in a series of armed Houston area bank robberies, including the robbery of the Pearland Chase branch bank on Dec. 31, 2010, have now been ordered to prison, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The Pearland Bank Robbery itself resulted in a nearly six-hour standoff with law enforcement.


News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Nicholas P. Allman, 23, of Kamiah, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 21 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Robert H. Whaley also ordered Allman to serve three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to the charge on June 11, 2013.


News Release: Guns Originated From Straw and Gun Show Purchases in Ohio and Virginia.


City and Park Officials Agree on Path Forward for Water Quality Protection during Elwha Dam Removal

News Release: Officials from the City of Port Angeles and Olympic National Park reached agreement last week on a path forward for protecting the City's water supply while continuing removal of the Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River.


Reclamation Managing Water Releases on Big Thompson River for Protection of the Public and Facilities in Eastern Colorado

News Release: LOVELAND, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation is releasing 3,600 cubic-feet-per-second from Olympus Dam to the Big Thompson River at the top of the Big Thompson Canyon. In addition, Reclamation is moving up to 550 cfs through facilities of the Colorado-Big Thompson project, keeping this water out of the Big Thompson River.


USDA Announces Sugar Tariff Rate Quotas for Fiscal Year 2014

News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the Fiscal Year 2014 raw and refined sugar tariff-rate quotas.


Back to School – in America’s National Parks (Andersonville)

News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Teachers across the State of Georgia have a new tool to help them engage their students in classroom and place-based learning.


Schuylkill County Man Sentenced For Production Of Child Pornography

News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Lee Raeder, age 45, of Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, was sentenced today in federal court on a charge of production of child pornography. United States District Court Senior Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced...


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A property manager and a straw purchaser have admitted their roles in a scheme to defraud financial institutions as part of a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on over-developed condominiums in the Wildwood, N.J., area, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.