News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: Jose Manuel Aldana-Madrid, aka Jose Ramos-Figueroa, 31, of Guatemala, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on July 2, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Aldana-Madrid was arrested in Douglas, Wyoming. He received time...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On July 2, 2014, James Wiley Brock, a resident of Newton, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court by Judge John A. Jarvey to 8 years in prison for possessing child pornography announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: The Defendant Orchestrated The Murders Of Family Members Of The Man Who Helped His Daughter Escape From Pakistan To The United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Donald Avery Moore, age 57, of Washington, D.C., today to nine years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for carjacking and using a gun during the carjacking. Judge Chasanow ordered that Moore’s Maryland sentence be served concurrent to the 42 month sentence he received in D.C. Superior Court on related charges.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Export International Inc., operating in Gresham, Ore., has posted a $90,000 surety bond.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 7, 2014. The committee will hold two hearings to continue its 21st Century Cures initiative. Members will discuss opportunities for modernizing clinical trials and incorporating patient perspectives in the #Path2Cures. The committee will also examine the role of states and the federal government regarding environmental policies and implementation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced CLINTON D. SMITH, age 43, of Prairieville, Louisiana, to 480 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release following imprisonment. While serving his term of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Donald Avery Moore, age 57, of Washington, D.C., today to nine years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for carjacking and using a gun during the carjacking. Judge Chasanow ordered that Moore’s Maryland sentence be served concurrent to the 42 month sentence he received in D.C. Superior Court on related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: Park employees responded to a fallen boulder on the Going-to-the-Sun Road Wednesday night. At approximately 10:30 p.m. park dispatch received a report of a large pile of snow and a very large boulder blocking the west-bound lane of the road approximately 1.5 miles west of Logan Pass. No injuries or damage were reported.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: Fireworks Prohibited in the Park. Yosemite National Park anticipates a busy Fourth of July weekend and Yosemite Park Rangers would like to remind visitors how to best enjoy summer weekends in the park. On average, Yosemite sees nearly 4 million visitors annually; approximately 55% of those arrive during...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: In Pecos this morning, 49-year-old JUDITH MARIA BROUGHTON, a Terlingua Ranch resident, pleaded guilty to stealing Social Security benefits payable to her dead father, Luther D. Broughton, announced Robert Pitman, United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, and Robert Feldt, Special Agent in Charge, Social Security Administration - Office of Inspector General (SSA-OIG) in Dallas. She faces up to 10 years in federal prison for the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - Herbert Eugene Burroughs, 47, of Dublin, Georgia was sentenced last week by United States District Court Senior Judge Dudley H. Bowen, Jr. to over 21 years (262 months) in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release, for distributing child pornography. Burroughs pled guilty to two counts of distributing child pornography in December 2013. He will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man was indicted on June 24, 2014, by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee leaders today joined a bicameral amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) as it considers whether to treat scholarship student athletes as “employees" under the National Labor Relations Act. The legal brief argues that college athletes are not employees under the law and treating student athletes as employees is unworkable...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 7, 2014. The committee will hold two hearings to continue its 21st Century Cures initiative. Members will discuss opportunities for modernizing clinical trials and incorporating patient perspectives in the #Path2Cures. The committee will also examine the role of states and the federal government regarding environmental policies and implementation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On July 1, 2014, Arthur J. Hulett, a 52 year-old resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John Jarvey to 108 months in prison, and six years of supervised release following the period of imprisonment, on the charge of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN:Voyageurs National Park is pleased to announce a new program for all ages - Hike to Health; Trails Passport Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas- The last of eight defendants charged with various offenses in a cocaine distribution conspiracy that operated in Mexico and in Lubbock, Borger and Odessa, Texas, pleaded guilty today, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 2, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 DHS continually assesses the global threat environment and reevaluates the measures we take to promote aviation security. As part of this ongoing process, I have directed TSA to implement enhanced security measures in the coming days at certain ...
