News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today, charging four defendants with conspiracy to cultivate marijuana, cultivation of marijuana, and depredation of public lands and resources, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A passenger on American Airlines (AA) Flight 62 from Miami to Paris last evening, was charged today in federal court with interfering with flight crew members. The flight was diverted to Boston’s Logan International Airport where the passenger was arrested.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative will take center stage Friday, Aug. 29, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) will host a roundtable. Pitts has assembled an all-star lineup of health care professionals and innovators to contribute...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Risk Management Program Protects Producers from Sudden Economic Challenges
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: In his keynote address here today at the 9th Kansas Housing Conference, USDA Rural Housing Service Administrator Tony Hernandez highlighted the department’s investments in rural housing and education.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An East Brunswick, New Jersey, man admitted today to sharing images of child sexual abuse from his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The owner of a Topeka jewelry store appeared in federal court Thursday on charges of knowingly buying stolen jewelry that he melted and sold for more than $430,500 as scrap gold, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative will take center stage Friday, Aug. 29, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) will host a roundtable. Pitts has assembled an all-star lineup of health care professionals and innovators to contribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man charged with Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding pled guilty to the charge and was sentenced on Aug. 26, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By State Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: WARSAW, POLAND - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), issued the following statement regarding Aaron Sofer, a yeshiva student from Lakewood, New Jersey who went missing on Friday and whose body was reportedly found dead today:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - On Aug. 21, 2014, four employees of the Houston Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were recognized at a ceremony held at ATF headquarters in Washington D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEMENTRIUS NAVE, also known as Cunny, age 35, of Hartford, was sentenced on Aug. 21, 2014, to...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Almond orchard experiments and laboratory tests led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues are yielding good news for almond fans and bad news for almond's No. 1 insect enemy, the navel orangeworm. Headed by USDA chemist John J. Beck, the team has developed a promising new combination of all-natural compounds to lure navel orangeworm moths into monitoring traps.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 17-count indictment today against Kenneth Tam, 53; Gerald Osborne, 56; Sherlynn Charles, 52; Marco Antonio Borja, 38; Adalberto Valenzuela-Ruiz, 30; and Nelson Gutierrez, 26, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, and possession and distribution of methamphetamine and heroin, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Jonathan Tyler Prive (26, West Melbourne) pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of attempting to induce a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity using the Internet. Prive faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, up to life in federal prison, as well as a potential life term of supervised release. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Prive was indicted on Feb. 19, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is now seeking public comment on a proposal to temporarily close access to public lands 15 miles north of Meeker for safety reasons.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Join us for nice temperatures, sparse crowds, a Fun Run/wilderness celebration and opportunities to view Craters of the Moon….and beyond!.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 46-year-old Scranton man, who was convicted last August of participating in a murder-for-hire conspiracy and related crimes, was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A local lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney for Nevada from 1975 to 1977, pleaded guilty today to failing to file federal individual and corporate income tax returns from 2006 to 2010, and agreed to pay restitution to the IRS of approximately $290,000, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Criminal Enterprise Collected More Than $100,000 in Proceeds.
