News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, August 4, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that former Hartford police detective TISHAY JOHNSON, 40, of Windsor, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A North Carolina woman has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months of probation, including six months of home detention with electronic monitoring and payment of restitution, on her conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding his meeting with Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni and Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Laiton Blake Witkowski, age 42, of Stockton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to producing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lamont Deshawn Byrd pleaded guilty today in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina, to one count of first degree murder of an Officer of the United States announced Thomas G. Walker, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Byrd, 21, was charged by Criminal Information...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 4, 2014, Jorge Gutierrez Ramirez, 39, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced to serve 70 months in federal prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Gutierrez pleaded guilty in May 2014, to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with illegal reentry into the United States after being deported.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today applauded the news that H.R. 1528, the Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act, was signed into law late Friday. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Reps. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) and Ted Yoho (R-FL), will allow veterinarians to administer care at...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT BRINKERHOFF, 54, of Old Lyme, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one year of probation for violating federal firearms laws. BRINKERHOFF worked as the general manager of Tri-Town Plastics, a federally-licensed firearms manufacturer located in Deep River.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- The Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of a missing individual on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today applauded the news that H.R. 1528, the Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act, was signed into law late Friday. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Reps. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) and Ted Yoho (R-FL), will allow veterinarians to administer care at...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Gettysburg, Pa. - Christopher Gwinn has been selected as the new Supervisory Park Ranger for the division of Interpretation and Education at Gettysburg National Military Park. Gwinn has served as an Interpretive Park Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park since April 2012. He will begin his new...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - RICHARD J. GODDEAU, age 46, of Athens, New York, pled guilty today in Albany to one count of Social Security fraud and one count of theft of government property before Chief United States District Judge Gary L. Sharpe, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Eric Holder, the United States Attorney General, and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the completion of a multi-year civil investigation pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (“CRIPA") into the conditions of confinement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former west suburban Lyons police officer was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for illegally extorting more than $48,000 from targets of criminal investigations he was supposedly conducting during 2013. The defendant, JIMMY J. RODGERS, who was a 14-year veteran of the Lyons Police Department, was sentenced after pleading guilty in May to extortion.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park is one of 23 national parks selected to receive a 2014 Impact Grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks. The $19,200 grant will assist park efforts to protect the federally endangered hawksbill turtle, known as the honu‘ea...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: The 'Ohe'o stream, located along the Pīpīwai Trail, will be closed for several days starting Tuesday while the stream monitoring equipment is serviced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Patricia Renteria, 40, and her son Steve Renteria, 21, both of Cathedral City, to five years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess and distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: MONROE, La. - A Florida man was sentenced to 51 months in prison and three years of supervised released for illegally possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Ranking Member Continues to Monitor Administration Actions on USDA Catfish Inspection Program
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney William N. Nettles, stated today that two Aiken men, Jesse James Quarles, 33, and Kenneth Islar, 27, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in separate indictments, charging each with felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United ...
