News from July 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Morse code. It's just beeps in the air. Yet on July 12, 1999, some very tough looking grizzled old radio pioneers had tears in their eyes as the last commercial Morse code radiogram was sent. It was the end of an era. And as the last beeps faded away, they witnessed the end of the career to which they had devoted their lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man pled guilty and has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months imprisonment, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Carol K.O. Lee, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, announced that Antonio Gutierrez, 44, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison for his conviction on three production of child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Angel Negron-Beltran to 38 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations have arrested Manuel Barron-Hernandez, 40, a Mexican national, Juan Carlos Salinas, 19, a U.S. citizen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, N.J., man today admitted he fraudulently obtained $500,000 by promising investors favorable returns and that funds would be used to finance educational television programming for teenage audiences, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: AFTERNOON STORM LEADS TO MULTIPLE RESCUES AT LAKE MEAD.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that today, Chief District Court Judge Ralph Beistline sentenced James Michael Wells to four consecutive life sentences for the murders of U.S. Coast Guard Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle on April 12, 2012. Both Hopkins and Belisle, who was working a Coast Guard civilian employee, were murdered at U.S. Coast Guard Communications Station Kodiak.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations have arrested MANUEL BARRON-HERNANDEZ, 40, a Mexican national, JUAN CARLOS SALINAS, 19, a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John K. Gauthier, Acting Special Agent in Charge of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division for New England, and Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations have arrested MANUEL BARRON-HERNANDEZ, 40, a Mexican national, JUAN CARLOS SALINAS, 19, a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department's Tax Division announced that JACQUELINE J. ARIAS, 39, a tax return preparer from Spruce Pine, Alabama, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Helen Ginger Berrigan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - James Quinn, 73, of Surrey, United Kingdom, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for his alleged involvement in the illegal shipments of non-FDA approved prescription drugs to co-conspirators in the United States. Quinn, along with two companies in the United Kingdom and Switzerland that he controls, were charged with five felony counts and he is due to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady for arraignment on Aug. 18, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jonathan Kennedy, 33, pleaded guilty today in federal court to two drug felonies - one related to his travel between Detroit, Michigan and Charleston, West Virginia, in aid of distributing heroin, and the second based on his use of a communication facility, his cellular telephone...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Review of CDC Anthrax Lab Incident." Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will be among the witnesses testifying.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Mary Carmen Vaquera-Garcia, 27, and Daniel Dominguez-Guardiola, 28, both of Mexico, have entered guilty pleas to conspiring to use debit/credit cards with the intent to defraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, last week introduced two amendments to S. 2363, the Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2014. The bill will be considered on the Senate floor this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Eric M. Martin, Mark Megalli, and Richard T. Posey have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in insider trading conspiracies involving Carter’s, Inc. stock.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of possession of ammunition by an illegal alien and use of a false social security number, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Katmai National Park and explore.org are pleased to announce that the popular bearcams are back for 2014. Each summer, brown bears gather to feed on sockeye salmon in the Brooks River. Eight webcams along or near the Brooks River stream live HD footage revealing the drama of the annual sockeye salmon migration and the dozens of brown bears fishing for them.
