News from August 2014
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. August 7: Live Webinar on Better Buildings Challenge: Education Sector Update. Webinar Sponsor: Better Buildings Challenge. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled “Better Buildings Challenge: Education Sector Update" on Thursday, August 7, from 3:00 p.m. to 3:45...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELLIS THOMAS, also known as “L" and “Big Homey," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: United States AttorneyJames L. Santelle, of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on August 5, 2014, Brian King (age: 55) of Chicago, Illinois, and Donald Myers, Jr. (age: 41) of Menominee, Michigan, were sentenced to 30 months and 21 months in prison respectively by Chief United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Defendant possessed images of child pornography including ones he took himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Roger Eichenholtz, 70, of Westchester County, New York, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for making threats over the Internet. He pleaded guilty April 28, 2014 to sending threatening communications through interstate commerce. After losing civil litigation over a business, Eichenholtz...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Chinese Whispers: Bay Chronicles Project to Retrace Shrimping Grounds/Camps in September 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -A Bossier Parish man pleaded guilty to illegally possessing multiple firearms, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- National Park Service personnel have located a body several hundred feet below the rim in the last known vicinity of missing Glendale, AZ resident Marc Buckhout.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to steal taxpayers’ identity information in order to receive fraudulent tax refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: To keep visitors and employees safe as Hurricane Iselle approaches the Hawaiian Islands, park officials will close all backcountry areas and certain roads in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, effective 6 p.m. this evening. Kīlauea Visitor Center and Jaggar Museum will close at 1 p.m. tomorrow, Thurs., Aug. 7, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Former Wilcox County Deputy Greg Barge, 45, from Camden, Alabama, was sentenced yesterday for attempting to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine powder, and using a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Charges Include Participation in Separate $2 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jorge Melendez, 42, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture more than 100 marijuana plants. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum of 40, a fine of $5,000,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Allegedly lied about previous connection to extremist group.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala - Seven alleged members of a suspected human smuggling criminal network were arrested Wednesday in Quetzaltenango by Guatemalan law enforcement officials with the assistance of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Scheme Defrauded the United States Marshals Survivors Benefit Fund and BackStoppers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Terry K. Burton, 46, and his son, Brent L. Burton, 23, both of Wilder, Idaho, were sentenced yesterday to three years of probation for stealing lodgepole pine posts and poles from the Malheur National Forest and selling the wood commercially in Idaho, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Noe Rodriguez, age 34, of Boyds, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to making false statements, and illegal possession of a firearm by an alien, arising from a scheme in which he failed to comply with federal wage, hour and records regulations under the Davis-Bacon Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden and other federal law enforcement representatives last week held meetings with leaders and representatives of 21 northern Nevada Indian tribes, and conducted tours of their reservations, announced United States Attorney Daniel G. Bogden.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: To protect visitor safety, the Summit and Kīpahulu Districts of Haleakalā NP will close at noon Thursday afternoon in anticipation of heavy winds and rain. The park will not open for sunrise viewing on Friday morning. Park managers will assess conditions on Friday and re-open the park once it is safe to do so.
