News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL BEVERLY, 37, formerly of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Region 4 News Release: 14-42-ATL (13)
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska:Denali National Park and Preserve Superintendent Don Striker has determined that due to the unseasonably warm temperatures and rain there is no longer adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in the 1980 additions to Denali National Park and Preserve...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) will host a forum in Coos Bay to discuss the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, critical legislation that impacts the Oregon coast, fishing fleet, and coastal economies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, OMERO CORDOVA, 32, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joe Heaton to serve 156 months in federal prison for money laundering, drug trafficking and gun charges, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for two arsons that caused more than $1 million in damages to the Ellis Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a building on the Stephens College campus in Columbia.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: "Microgreens" is a marketing term used to describe edible greens which germinate from the seeds of vegetables and herbs and are harvested without roots at the seedling stage. The plants at the seedling stage have two fully expanded cotyledons, or seed leaves. They are considered a specialty genre of colorful greens that are good for garnishing salads, soups, plates and sandwiches.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Kyle Clemons, aged 38, of an unknown address in Macon, Georgia, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, to serve sixty three (63) months in federal prison for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 20 indictments charging 21 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Five of twelve conspirators charged with running a cigarette smuggling ring in North and South Carolina were sentenced in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 on cigarette trafficking and money laundering charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Gerrit Kuechle Keats, age 72, of Clearwater, Florida, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 3 years’ probation for sending threatening communications via email to the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Travis Tygart, U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Manuel L. Maroño, the former Mayor of the City of Sweetwater, was sentenced to 40 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Baltimore - Andres Dorantes Flores, age 43, of Elkton, Maryland pleaded guilty today to soliciting others to kidnap a 10 year old boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that JEFFERY A. LOPEZ, age 30, of Bunch, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment, followed by 24 months of supervised release for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the project delivery and communication shortfalls of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) flood control projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Bridgette Williams, aged 31, of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, to serve six (6) months imprisonment in a case of conspiracy to commit fraudulent claims, identity theft and receiving stolen government property. Ms. Williams was also ordered to make restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the report issued today from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Justin Augus, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 228 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Walter Lee Deiter, 55, of Corrales, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 15 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, 2nd Judicial District Attorney Kari E. Brandenburg...
