News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury today delivered its verdicts against seven defendants charged in a ticket fixing conspiracy involving the former Philadelphia Traffic Court. Jurors found three defendants - Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, and Thomasine Tynes - guilty of committing perjury before the federal...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -- The National Park Service is pleased to announce that Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Archaeologist, Robert J. Cromwell, Ph.D., has accepted a detail as the Site Manager for the Pearson Air Museum and the Jack Murdock Aviation Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Independent analysis advises “reset" for SSA Disability computer system years behind schedule
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New London Police Chief Margaret Ackley and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Tennessee man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for enticing a minor victim to engage in illicit sexual activity in Lawrence County, Mo. Dylan Wade Garcia...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, WV- A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,243,400 visitors toNew River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area in2013 spent$51,108,000in communities near the park. That spending supported673jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Ronald Deandrea Solomon (29) guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life in federal prison. Solomon was indicted on April 17, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: BOISE B Larry Grant Dana, 41, of Council, Idaho, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Dana pled guilty to the charge on May 19, 2014. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Dana to serve five years of supervised release following the prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Nerene Erica Harrison (32, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica) guilty of marriage fraud. Harrison faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 23, 2014. Harrison was indicted on Nov. 13, 2013, along with Robert Kenneth Scott Cruz.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. July 23, 2014 14-050. Al Nash or Dan Hottle. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone Rangers Conducted Traffic Safety...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man well-known to local police because of his lengthy criminal history and street gang affiliations, was sentenced today to 155 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell criticizing her ongoing failure to protect the health and safety of the people of King Cove, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal jury today convicted three men for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed millions of dollars’ worth of marijuana in the Lawrence area, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today. The government is seeking a money judgment of more than $16.9 million against the traffickers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the wife of a Joplin, Mo., man who was previously indicted on child pornography charges was indicted along with her husband by a federal grand jury today for the sexual...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 17 members and associates of the Schuele Boys Gang, a group which operated in the Schuele Street area of the East Side of Buffalo, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved two bipartisan legislative proposals that will spur innovation and strengthen transparency in higher education. The bills are part of a broader effort to improve postsecondary education through reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man who worked for the Garmin Company in Olathe, Kan., has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for stealing boxes of GPS devices from the company, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. He also was ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of the bipartisan Hezbollah International Prevention Act of 2014 (H.R. 4411), introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL). Chairman Royce and Rep. Eliot Engel...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of smuggling goods from the United States, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Scott Walker, 34, of Ocean Springs, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 18 months in prison for federal program fraud and 18 months for conspiracy to commit federal program fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge...
