News published on Federal Newswire in January 2014

News from January 2014


News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas -Janis Hernandez, 31, of Electra and Killeen, Texas, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, to 136 months in federal prison following her guilty plea in June 2013 to an indictment charging conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.


News Release: Two Youngstown men and a third from Lisbon, Ohio, faced federal firearms charges for unrelated cases, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.


Ocracoke Soundside Boat Ramp Repairs Begin

News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that repairs of the Ocracoke soundside boat ramp begin the week of Jan. 13, 2014. The boat ramp and adjacent bulkhead were damaged during strong winds and high tides as Hurricane Sandy passed the Outer Banks of North Carolina in late October 2012.The huge storm brushed the Carolina coast but left damage and debris in the wake of the turbulent ocean and sound conditions.


News Release: GRANVILLE ROBINSON, a/k/a “BEAR" and “HB", age 25, from Memphis, Tennessee; DUANE PHILLIPS, a/k/a “P-nut," age 28, from Memphis, Tennessee; and ANTHONY ELLIS, a/k/a “Anthony Deshun Lloyd," “Animal," and “AD", age 25, from Memphis, Tennessee, were arrested today for offenses related to their involvement...


Summary of 2014 Omnibus: Energy and Water Development

News Release: 2013 enacted level (excluding Sandy reconstruction): $33.2 billion.


News Release: HOUSTON - Denise O’Neal, aka Teddy Bear Paradise, was been indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening to injure and murder President Obama, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area Resource Management Plan Amendment Approved

News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roswell Field Office is announcing that the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area (NCA) Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment has been approved by the BLM New Mexico State Director. The decision has been made to approve the Proposed RMP Amendment and to select Alternative A (Preferred) as presented in the Proposed Environmental Assessment (EA).


News Release: 2013 enacted level: $4.28 billion. 2014 Committee mark: $3.23 billion (House bills do not include Senate funding). 2014 Omnibus: $4.26 billion. · $1.181 billion for the US House of Representatives, which is $42.3 million less than the 2013 enacted level and $19 million more than the post-sequester level.


Colorado U.S. Attorney's Office Joins In Collections Of Over $100 Million In Civil And Criminal Actions And Asset Forfeiture In Fiscal Year 2013

News Release: DENVER -- U.S. Attorney John Walsh announced today that in Fiscal Year 2013 the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado collected a total of $94,388,632.41 for the United States, composed of collections by the Office independently in Colorado and collections obtained jointly with...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, inserted the following statement today, as prepared for delivery, into the record on full Committee hearing “South Sudan’s Broken Promise?".


Three Harrisburg Men Charged Federally With Hobbs Act Robbery And Use Of A Firearm During A Crime Of Violence

News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tory Dobbin, age 41, George Stoney, age 40, and Nathaniel Mosely, age 43, all from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on charges of robbery of a business engaged in interstate commerce (Hobbs Act robbery), and Use of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence.


Summary of 2014 Omnibus: Defense

News Release: 2013 total enacted level: $605.4 billion.


Eileen Sobeck named assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries

News Release: As assistant administrator, Sobeck will oversee the management and conservation of recreational and commercial fisheries, and the protection of marine mammals, marine protected species, and coastal fisheries habitat within the U.S. exclusive economic zone. NOAA Fisheries employs 4,800 people in five regional offices, six science centers, and 12 laboratories in 15 states and U.S. territories.


Annual Pass Commemorating Upcoming Centennial  Now Available At Rocky Mountain National Park

News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park turns 100 in 2015! Want to start celebrating, but don't want to wait until next year? Rocky's 2014 Annual Pass features the 100th Anniversary logo and a pika, one of the park's most popular residents that relies on the protected tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park for survival. This pass, which will be issued throughout 2014, is a fun way to commemorate the park's Centennial, which kicks off September 4, 2014.


Jackson County Man Charged With Failing To Register As Sex Offender

News Release: On September 4, 2013, Willie Joe Strayhorn, a/k/a “Jo Jo," 47, of Murphysboro, was indicted in a one-count indictment charging Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.


Three Of 20 Defendants Sentenced In Meth Distribution Ring

News Release: BOISE, Idaho - - Kenneth Jones, 47, of Rio Linda, California, Robbie Gallegos, 43, of Boise, Idaho, and Heidi Aguila, 34, of Nampa, Idaho, were sentenced this week in federal court for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine distribution ring. The defendants appeared before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.


Twelve Firearms Seized, Scituate Resident Detained In Ongoing ATF, Scituate Police, U.S. Attorney’s Office Firearms Trafficking Investigation

News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An investigation by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Scituate Police Department and the United States Attorney’s Office into the alleged trafficking of firearms from a Scituate, R.I., residence resulted today in the seizure of nine firearms and more than 30 marijuana plants from the residence, and the arrest and detention of Philip Debartolo, 29, of Scituate, on federal firearm and drug charges.


News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 22-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.


Woman Who Absconded After Arrest on a Federal Felony Drug Charge is Sentenced to 136 Months in Federal Prison

News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas -Janis Hernandez, 31, of Electra and Killeen, Texas, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, to 136 months in federal prison following her guilty plea in June 2013 to an indictment charging conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.


Windham Man Sentenced to Three Years on Child Pornography Charge

News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Paul.