News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: LAREDO - Rodolfo Reyna Sanchez, 45, of Rio Grande City, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute 2,845.5 kilograms of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on Feb. 25, 2014, Dean Moss, a 26-year-old enrolled Northern Arapaho man from Arapahoe, Wyoming, was sentenced by United States District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl for second degree murder. Moss received 204 months imprisonment, to be followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Valentin Muniz-Saavedra, 44, residing in Brownsville, has been convicted of conspiracies to possess and import and possession with intent to distribute and import cocaine and methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury deliberated for more than a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Des Moines, Iowa, company pleaded guilty in federal court today to releasing thousands of gallons of gasoline-contaminated water into the city sewer system of Duenweg, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - More than 200 investors in an Elk Grove Village company that purportedly made homeland security and food safety products lost more than $9 million through the offer and sale of stock, according to a federal fraud indictment against the company’s majority owner and chief executive. The defendant...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sosefina Amoa, 26, formerly of Samoa, pled guilty today to a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the death of her infant son, who was born within a week after she moved into a convent in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that CHS Inc., Tangent, Ore., has paid $1,050 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La.-United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley was the keynote speaker today at the Sunset Middle School Black History Program. She addressed approximately 375 students ranging from 5th through 8th grades, parents, and community members in attendance, to include the Mayor of Grand Coteau...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former Watertown Town Councilman and his ex-wife were sentenced yesterday for their roles in marijuana-trafficking and money-laundering conspiracies involving hundreds of kilograms of marijuana and millions of dollars of drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today prohibited the consideration of any future permit application to develop a mine on state lands in the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Just one tornado can cause catastrophic damage. Last year, the EF 5 tornado that struck Moore, Okla., on May 20 killed 24 people and caused more than $2 billion in damage. In 2013, a total of 903 tornadoes were reported in the United States. Those tornadoes occurred in 43 states on 152 days, resulting in 55 fatalities and more than 500 injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Members of a three-person methamphetamine trafficking ring that operated in Lubbock, Texas, were sentenced this morning in federal court by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings. Two of the defendants, Michael Armenta, 19, and Fernando Valenzuela-Ceballos, 26, received lengthy federal...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Newton B. Drury Parkway will be closed on a nightly basis starting Saturday, March 1, 2014. The parkway will be closed each day at sunset and reopened at sunrise.The hours of closure will be variable as the time of sunset and sunrise changes.Closure hours may also be impacted if staff is responding to other emergencies. Patrols will also be increased during this time to ensure the protection of our natural resources.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, were joined by 18 colleagues in urging Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to reconsider changes proposed for the Medicare Part D prescription-drug program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Walter Clarence Eatman (68, St. Cloud) yesterday pleaded guilty to theft of government funds and making false statements. Eatman faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 16, 2014, at 9:30 a.m., before Senior U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazarra.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Recognizing outstanding work in support of BLM programs, the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Director Jesse Juen presented Arizona’s Friends of the Agua Fria National Monument with the BLM’s 2014 “Public...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: South Bend, IN-The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in South Bend, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on Feb. 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - The United States Marshal’s Service today arrested fugitive Raheem Creque, a.k.a. “Shano," 36, of St. Thomas on an outstanding federal warrant, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and United States Marshal Cheryl Jacobs. After his capture, Creque appeared before District Court Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller, who scheduled his detention and preliminary hearing for March 3rd.