News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PEDRO RIVERA, also known as “Cheito," 36, of Groton, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: HEADQUARTERS, TUPELO, MS: "The National Park Service will celebrate the beginning of its second century on Aug. 28, 2016," stated Superintendent Mary Risser. "To prepare for the celebration, staff members spent a week landscaping around the visitor center and headquarters building near Tupelo.".
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River will be having a preschool story time event every Friday morning, beginning at 10:30 a.m. (EST). The event will take place at the Obed Visitor Center, located at 208 North Maiden Street in downtown Wartburg. All preschool children (and their parents or guardians) are invited...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Travis C. Stiehl, 23, received a sentence today of 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography at his mother’s daycare facility in Lowell, Michigan. Stiehl pled guilty in August 2014 to one count of producing child pornography of a 4-year-old boy. As part of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former St. Clair County, Mo., sheriff’s deputy and a former county jail inmate were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: The first Honduran national extradited to the United States for drug trafficking was sentenced today to serve 20 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Three Aryan Brotherhood of (ABT) gang members and associates were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the violent ABT enterprise, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Today, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a redacted summary of its 6,000-page report on the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency. The report concludes that the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation" techniques in the years following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 did ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Donald Armin Alaniz, of McAllen, has been sentenced to 120 months imprisonment for possessing with intent to distribute approximately 1,780 kilograms of marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alaniz, 48, pleaded guilty Feb. 28, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Rodney Byrd and Reginald Byrd have been arraigned on federal charges of unlawfully purchasing vouchers of the Georgia Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program and debit cards of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office is offering fuel wood permits for the public to cut firewood through the end of 2014. Beginning Jan. 1, 2015, firewood cutting will not be allowed until April 16, 2015, on BLM-managed public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Shantoria Valentine-Deguenon, age 23 of Omaha, Nebraska, was convicted today after a jury found her guilty of bank robbery. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon presided over the trial that was held this week in Federal District Court. Sentencing has been set for March 6, 2014. Ms. Valentine-Deguenon faces 20 years of imprisonment when she is sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, and Ronald J. Verrochio, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Miami Division, announce that Jason...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released its latest white paper in the 21st Century Cures initiative. The paper solicits feedback regarding the regulation of in vitro diagnostic test kits and laboratory developed tests. All comments can be sent to cures@mail.house.gov by January 5, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today expanded its record of success with the House of Representatives’ approval of H.R. 5705, the Propane Education and Research Enhancement Act of 2014. Committee member Bob Latta (R-OH) and Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN) authored the bipartisan legislation, which directs the U.S. Department of Commerce to more accurately calculate consumer propane costs to help prevent future price spikes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Former FBI agent and Fort Lauderdale resident was sentenced today for falsifying background check interviews that he performed for potential employees of government entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Antonio Yazzie, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Lukachukai, Ariz., was sentenced this afternoon for his assault with a dangerous weapon conviction. Yazzie will serve 24 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Richard Wayne Johnson (68, St. Petersburg) to nine years in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography, followed by a lifetime of supervised release. In addition, the Court ordered Johnson to pay $7,000 in restitution to the victims of the offenses, and imposed a fine of $17,500. Johnson was also ordered to forfeit a desktop computer that had been used to facilitate the offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: 2014 enacted level: $30.058 billion. 2015 budget request: $30.620 billion. 2015 Omnibus: $30.044 billion. Highlights and key points: * $3.554 billion for wildland fire, which fully funds the 10-year average for fire costs. * $4.642 billion for the Indian Health Service, which is $207 million more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two Jacksonville, Texas men have been sentenced in connection with a violent crime spree targeting area businesses in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. The sentences were handed down today by U.S. District Judge Michael Schneider.
