News from July 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: On Monday, July 28, Old Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park will close to all uses including pedestrians and hikers, as major repair work begins on the road and the Alluvial Fan bridge. Old Fall River Road received significant damages during the September 2013 flood. The road has been closed since last September to vehicles and bicycles but pedestrians and hikers had been allowed on the road. All other roads in Rocky Mountain National Park are open.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - Five men, charged with conspiracy to possess with the Intent to distribute methamphetamine in the Galveston area, have been ordered detained pending further criminal proceedings, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Directed Correctional Officers to Smuggle Contraband into Baltimore Correctional Facility,.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jorden Medina, 54, a non-Native man who resides in El Prado, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a federal involuntary manslaughter charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD"), James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA")...
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a Committee hearing addressing terrorist activity in Iraq...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - JOHN W. CALTABIANO, Jr., 47, of Cairo, New York, and COLLEEN J. McCARTEN, 41, of Coxsackie, New York, appeared today before Magistrate Judge Randolph F. Treece in U.S. District Court in Albany to be arraigned on an 11-count July 17, 2014, indictment charging them with engaging in a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a three-day trial, a federal jury found John Winton Harris, 31, of Sacramento, guilty today of one count of possession of at least 29 grams of cocaine base, commonly referred to as crack cocaine or rock cocaine. The trial was held before United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Hamilton, Sr., 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of distribution of marijuana, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Ralph Currington, a 43-year-old former state prison guard in Pittsburgh, was convicted at the conclusion of a federal jury trial for making false statements and representations to United States Marshals Service deputies who were trying to locate a fugitive who was wanted for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Carl Walton Raymonde, age 46, of Lakewood, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 216 months (18 years) in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Christian Dior Womack, a/k/a “Gucci Prada," 30, of Chester, PA, pleaded guilty today to all counts in connection with sex trafficking females for prostitution. Womack decided to plead guilty during jury selection. He operated a prostitution venture, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, recruiting...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA - July 18,2014 - A National Park Service report shows that 784,854 visitors to North Cascades National Park Service Complex in 2012 spent approximately 37.9 million in communities near the Complex. That spending supported 370 jobs in the local area.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the terrorist advance in Iraq, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and the U.S. response: The hearing, entitled “Terrorist March in Iraq: The U.S. Response " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Three defendants were arrested today on charges of providing material support to al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization that is conducting a violent insurgency campaign in Somalia. Two additional defendants are fugitives in Kenya and Somalia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth man who was arrested in Oregon, where he fled when a fraudulent oil and gas Ponzi scheme he was running began to unravel, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that David Grant Rainey, age 66, was sentenced to two years supervised release, with one year to be served in home confinement following his felony conviction for selling firearms without a license. Rainey was also fined $4,000.00.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after the HELP Committee approved seven bipartisan bills at a Committee markup today. The approved bills include: the Promoting Physical Activity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - A federal grand jury in San Jose returned a three-count indictment against Quan Pham Howard, 51, of San Jose, charging him with possession of stolen U.S. mail, delay and destruction of U.S. mail, and possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2014
News Release: Photographer Michael Lang of Lakewood, Colorado, will continue to highlight this year's Art in the Park Program at Rocky Mountain National Park with presentations held July 30 and August 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center.
