News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia is joining the District of Columbia government and other partners to sponsor an upcoming forum for community and government leaders on diversity and criminal justice issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Crime was sentenced on Jan. 3, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), and Sarah Thomas-Nededog, Vice-President, West Care Pacific Islands, were invited to speak at the Micronesian Chief Executives Summit (MCES) held on December 4-6, 2013, in Saipan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota, sitting in St. Paul, recently returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation, and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Any sentence is determined by a federal district judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jerese Blue, 27, and Chellsie Blue, 23, both of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: More Than 2,000 Pieces Of Stolen Mail Recovered Belonging to Over 845 Mail Theft Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Richardson, Auburn Police Chief Paul Register, Dothan Police Chief Greg Benton, Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin, Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes, Montgomery Police Chief Kevin Murphy, and Montgomery County Sheriff D.T. Marshall, will hold a press conference to announce the formation of the Central Alabama Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the 12th anniversary of No Child Left Behind...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Wayne County felon who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced today to two years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Keith Brian Clark, 47, of East Lynn, W.Va., previously pleaded guilty in October 2013 to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The sentence was handed down by United States District Court Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Zhou Wang Ni, 48, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to harboring an illegal alien for commercial gain before U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: What do you see when you look at a photograph of yourself? Do you see the ordinary, the extraordinary, or perhaps, a mixture of both? Do you see someone who could change the world? We tend to think of the men who won our independence as larger than life heroes, when in reality they were everyday people like us, simply trying to do the job required of them to the best of their ability. We need only look into their faces to see this.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced NATHANIEL BELTRAN GRINSTEAD, 38, to 306 months imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Drug Supplier Shot And Killed One Of Two Men In Attempted Drug Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on January 6, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Bowie, AZ - In cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the National Park Service (NPS) is seeking information in the investigation of the illegal killing of a mule deer at Fort Bowie National Historic Site (NHS) in November.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) on Tuesday will hold the first hearing in the Committee’s efforts to develop new legislation to reauthorize federal surface transportation programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, in a letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pressed for explanations and revisions on false and misleading statements the secretary made before Congress about the security risks present on HealthCare.gov. Issa also requested documents and communications made in preparation for Sebelius’s congressional appearances after Oct. 1, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, January 8, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL ROGERS, 41, of Middlebury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on January 7, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dismissed the appeal of Craig A. Grimes, former professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, announce that...
