News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Defendants Charged with Multiple Counts of Conspiring to Distribute “Spice," Money Laundering, Smuggling.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Everglades National Park will be conducting the Heck House Prescribed Burn (East Everglades Unit 5) on Tuesday, February 11 and continue through Wednesday, February 12 (weather permitting). The general location of the prescribed burn is along the eastern boundary of the park, west...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Shawn Lee McMullen, 37, of Cross Lanes, W.Va., was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment followed by 25 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Couple busted with hundreds of illegal prescription pills.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - Feb. 10, 2014. Tina Miller 402-223-3514. Travel Down the Road to Valhalla with a Special Film Premiere. This year's Homestead Film Festival at Homestead National Monument of America continues! An exciting special premiere of Road to Valhalla will be shown on Saturday...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Case is one of many brought as a result of United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton’s Metro-East Armed Robbery Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Jackson County man entered a guilty plea to theft of government money, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Michael W. Smith, 36, of Sandyville, West Virginia, faces a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and mandatory restitution in the amount of $10,110 dollars. Sentencing is scheduled for May 7, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced that it is seeking public nominations for five open positions on its Front Range Resource Advisory Council, which advises the BLM on public land issues. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations for 45 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 10 months in jail on his conviction for possession of contraband in prison, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement that the agency experienced a net loss of $354 million in the first quarter of 2014, which includes $1.4 billion in accrued expenses for the legally mandated prefunding payment of retiree health benefits. Currently, USPS has $16.7 billion in defaulted payments that were due for 2012 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A 35-year-old Michigan man who was involved in a drug distribution scheme was sentenced today to three years and ten months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Leonard Joseph Stewart, of Romulus, Michigan previously pleaded guilty in Huntington to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Martin, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault on a Federal Officer was sentenced on February 7, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kyle Alifom, 20, of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today to tampering with evidence for hiding the body of Emylee Lonczak, a 16-year-old from McLean, Va. who died after a heroin overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man convicted of Child Abuse was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2014, by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Michael Janus, 47, of Biloxi pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of federal program fraud in connection with a $3 million grant from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to the City of D’Iberville, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest and Southwest Colorado districts are seeking public nominations for 10 open positions on their Resource Advisory Councils, which advise the BLM on public land issues.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released the following statement in response to the announcement that the Obama Administration is delaying ObamaCare’s employer mandate for mid-sized businesses until 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Brandon Taylor (24, Bradenton). The five-count indictment charges Taylor with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and three counts of possession with intent to distribute ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former Guatemalan Special Forces officer was sentenced today to serve 10 years in federal prison for covering up his involvement in the 1982 massacre of nearly everyone in the village of Dos Erres, Guatemala.
