News from March 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ashley Gries, 19, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; Danny Guy Forrester, 48, of Shippensburg; Gabriel John Stouffer, 30, of Newburg, Pennsylvania; Michael Anthony DeCarlo, 31, of Shippensburg; and Jeffrey Lynn Wright, Jr., 31, of Shippensburg, have been arrested and arraigned by Chief Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson on drug trafficking charges in federal court in Harrisburg today.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX -Joel Leon Thomas, Jr., 23, of El Mirage, Ariz., was found guilty of three counts of conspiracy to commit bank robbery, two counts of aid and abet armed bank robbery, one count of aid and abet bank robbery, and two counts of using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence by a federal jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 10th Street Gang member Miguel Moscoso, 23, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant murdered Christian Portes, a member of the rival 7th Street Gang, on June 13, 2009 at the corner of Whitney Place and Maryland Street. Moscoso faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Ray Looney, 39, a non-Indian man who resides in the Pueblo of Laguna, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to sexually abusing a minor child under a plea agreement that requires the imposition of a 15-year federal prison sentence. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Independence National Historical Park welcomed a group of international educators as part of Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program, managed through Philadelphia's International Visitors Council.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: On March 13, 2014, the U.S. Department of Commerce released details about the President's fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget request to Congress for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The FY 2015 budget request of $900 million aligns with the agency's vision for expanding and strengthening...

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Mike Quigley (D-IL) hosted a Congressional Transparency Caucus briefing on the need to promote open government data to enhance government transparency and fuel economic growth and job creation.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Defendant had previously pled guilty to distribution of heroin.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Mineral, CA - Superintendent Darlene M. Koontz will offer a presentation on April 10 of the final reports on two visitor use studies that were recently released by the National Park Service and University of Idaho's Park Studies Unit. The data for these studies was collected through visitor surveys that...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Brandi Larrea, 31, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Matthew Bullock, 30, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty of a total of 24 charges stemming from the shooting of three men in December 2012 behind a restaurant in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: TULSA, OKLAHOMA- A Tulsa man with three prior felony convictions was found guilty in federal court Tuesday for possessing a firearm and ammunition, and possessing heroin and methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 10th Street Gang member Miguel Moscoso, 23, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant murdered Christian Portes, a member of the rival 7th Street Gang, on June 13, 2009 at the corner of Whitney Place and Maryland Street. Moscoso faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Summer Field Research Course in Yosemite National Park builds future scientists and leaders.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ashley Gries, 19, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; Danny Guy Forrester, 48, of Shippensburg; Gabriel John Stouffer, 30, of Newburg, Pennsylvania; Michael Anthony DeCarlo, 31, of Shippensburg; and...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Arcata, California, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 24, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today in response to a new report from the White House that highlights why the Harkin-Miller proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 is important for women and how it will help reduce poverty among women and families, as well as help to make progress toward closing the gender pay gap.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Paul Martin, 29, a member and resident of Isleta Pueblo, was sentenced this morning to 10 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.