News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: A man who enticed a minor to engage in sexual activity and possessed child pornography pled guilty on Sept. 26, 2013, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Stuart L. Lowrey, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Barry Waldrop, Nicholasville Police Chief and Kevin Corman, Jessamine County Sheriff, jointly announced today that a man with several prior felony convictions was sentenced for a firearm offense.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The latest episode of the educational television series, "Waterways" examines the threats south Florida could face from rising sea levels associated with global climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: On Sept. 26, 2013, Joshua D. Kennedy, 22, of Chester, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count second superseding indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: HONOLULU - Defendants Roger Cusick Christie (age: 64) and Sherryanne L. Christie (age: 62), husband and wife, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi to marijuana trafficking and tax offenses. Roger Christie pled guilty to conspiring to manufacture, distribute...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution, introduced by Senators Tom Carper (D-DE), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Patty Murray (D-WA), that designates September 2013 as Campus Fire Safety Month. The resolution also encourages institutions of higher education to implement fire safety education and fire prevention measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that six individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in an arson and insurance fraud conspiracy. One of the conspirators has also been indicted separately, along with his wife, in a conspiracy to illegally possess firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK - Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement (“DEA") and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the arrests of three defendants - JOSEPH MANUEL HUNTER and TIMOTHY VAMVAKIAS, both citizens of the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jose Calderon and Noemi Barboza, both 42 and of Sterling, Virginia, were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on conspiracy and bribery of an employee of a state agency receiving federal assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), today announced funding awards for the District of New Mexico.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the phone call between President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Wednesday, September 25 at approximately 1:00 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call with a report of a deceased 67 year old female on the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park at River Mile 209.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Sept. 27, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, KYLE BRADLEY ANDERSON, a 23-year-old resident of Missoula, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Funds Will Hire School Resource Officers and Critical Law Enforcement Positions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Funds Will Hire School Resource Officers and Critical Law Enforcement Positions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Timothy Keevan, 48, of Swanton, Vermont, was charged in a single-count indictment with accessing images of child pornography with the intent to view them, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). Keevan pleaded not guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Funds Will Hire School Resource Officers and Critical Law Enforcement Positions.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement on the draft resolution in the U.N. Security Council regarding Syria’s chemical weapons program.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: JAMAICA - Eight individuals arrested last week in Jamaica for their involvement in a fraudulent lottery scheme were charged Friday with various criminal violations. The arrests were a result of a joint investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Jamaica's Major Organised Crime and Anticorruption Task Force (MOCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on Sept. 27, 2013, before U.S. District Sam E. Haddon, DACOTA ROBERT ROGERS, pled guilty to distribution of Fentanyl. Sentencing has been set for Feb. 21, 2014.
