News from June 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) blasted Republicans for the passage of H.R. 4899, “Drill Everywhere" legislation that will mandate drilling off our coasts and public lands, and erode key environmental review. The legislation, which was last passed in 2013, will do nothing to lower gas prices for American consumers. It was approved by the House on a mostly party line vote 229-185.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alcario Emilio Provencio, 24, a member and resident of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced this afternoon to 36 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for assaulting a minor in Indian Country.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Ranking Member Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) announced the completion of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (H.R.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park would like to invite the public to participate in a FREE, one hour, family friendly canoe tour with an interpretive ranger on Thursday, July 10, 2014. This year, The Friends of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park...
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today applauded the Administration’s request to provide support to moderate elements of the Syrian opposition. Last year, Rep. Engel introduced the Free Syria Act, which includes provisions similar to the Administration’s request.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury today indicted a former U.S. Postal Service clerk in Tuscaloosa on charges including stealing prescription painkillers from the mail, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Max Eamiguel, of the Southern Area Field Office, and Postal Inspection Service Team Leader Frank Dyer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) wants you to be safe this Fourth of July. Understanding the dangers associated with illegal or improperly used or manufactured fireworks can prevent severe injuries, disfigurement, or even death. These illegal devices are not fireworks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney William N. Nettles announced today that a federal magistrate judge arraigned Rory Severin, age 45, William Scott Powell, age 40, Chad Edward Moore, age 42, Marie Higgins, age 36, and Angel Miranda Luna, age 24, on federal narcotics and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: DUBLIN, GA - Dwight Eady, 31, of Milan, Georgia was sentenced earlier this month by Senior United States District Court Judge Dudley Bowen to 70 months in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking organization operating out of Dodge, Telfair, and Laurens Counties, Georgia, and elsewhere. Eady was the twenty-first and final defendant to be sentenced for his role in the drug ring. A list of others convicted and sentenced in the case is included below.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - A Rock Island county man, Daniel William Becker, Jr., 22, of Carbon Cliff, Ill., was sentenced today for sexual exploitation of minors and possession of child pornography, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Jose Cortez-Miranda, 39, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on June 25, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Cortez-Miranda was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received eight months imprisonment, was ordered to pay a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury today indicted a former U.S. Postal Service clerk in Tuscaloosa on charges including stealing prescription painkillers from the mail, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Max Eamiguel, of the Southern Area Field Office, and Postal Inspection Service Team Leader Frank Dyer.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks during a Committee markup of H.R. 4347, the Turkey Christian Churches Accountability Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Adil Alakbarov, a citizen of Azerbaijian who had been residing in Cheektowaga, N.Y., and who was convicted of making a false statement on an immigration document, was sentenced to time served (5 ½ months) by Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Patrick R. Minga (50, formerly of Cape Coral) pleaded guilty yesterday to attempting to induce and facilitate, for his own financial gain, the travel of an individual from Brevard County, Florida, to Quito, Ecuador, so that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - Jesse Jefferson Flournoy, II, 37, of Augusta, Georgia was sentenced earlier this month to 148 months in prison by United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall for his role in a check-cashing scheme that involved cashing over 80 United States Treasury and University Bank checks for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Bergen County, N.J., man admitted today that he downloaded images and videos depicting child sexual abuse on a computer at his parents’ house, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special walking tour that will explore one of the more famous "common" Confederate soldiers engaged in the Battle of Chickamauga on Saturday, July 5, at 1:30 pm. Visitors should meet at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center and caravan to the program location.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that James Lee Collins, Jr. was sentenced on June 25th in Federal Court after pleading guilty to conspiracy to pass and utter United States treasury checks with falsely made and forged endorsements and signatures. The scheme primarily involved stolen or fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment in Operation Road Block, an extensive investigation into a drug trafficking network operating in the Baton Rouge region.
