News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: RUTGERS, LIVINGSTON CAMPUS, PISCATAWAY, N.J. Good morning. Thank you, Andrew [Carey], for that introduction. During the three and a half years we worked together in the US Attorney’s Office, I got to see first-hand your dedication to the fight against violent crime and am delighted to have you as a...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today called for a careful review of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed rule protecting streams and wetlands under the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office, and Deryl Loar, Indian River County Sheriff, announce the arrest of Glenn Thomas Carvajal, 34, of Vero...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Protect the Hawaiian ecosystem from invasive, non-native plant species by volunteering for “Stewardship at the Summit" programs in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that on March 25, 2014, MAURICIO ORTIZ-VARGAS, a/k/a MAURICIO ORTIZ, a/k/a MAURICIO HERNANDEZ-CHAVEZ, a/k/a MAURICIO HERNANDEZ, age 36, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Conspiracy to Possess with intent to Distribute and Distribute 500 grams or more of a methamphetamine mixture, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct a prescribed burn in the Trail Gulch area, approximately 15 miles northwest of Cañon City between Shelf Road and High Park Road in northern Fremont County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Max P. Andolsek, 52, of Tullahoma, Tenn., pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to defraud the Department of Defense, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Andolsek, a former recruiting assistant for the Air National Guard, and two other individuals, were indicted on July 17, 2013. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 2824, the Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: COVINGTON, KY -A longtime bookkeeper for a Northern Kentucky Bank admitted in federal court that she embezzled more than $100,000 from her employer, over a three year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Dellando Recardo Campbell, age 31, of Lemoore, California, on charges of interstate domestic violence resulting in the death of a spouse, in connection of the death of Serika Dunkley Holness. The indictment was returned on February 5, 2014. Campbell...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA -- DERECK JEROME BROWN, 33, of Waycross, Georgia, was sentenced last week before Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 210 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Jackson, TN - At least 36 individuals were arrested today in Obion and Weakley Counties as part of a combined federal, state, and local investigation of criminal activity in the area, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III; ATF Special Agent in Charge Jeff Fulton; and 27th District Attorney General Thomas A. Thomas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced John Charles Stevenson (46, Rincon, Georgia) to 7 years in federal prison for receiving videos and images of child pornography over the Internet. He was also ordered to serve a 5-year term of supervision and to register...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe stated today that Troy J. Normil, 18, of St. Thomas, has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with Carjacking. Normil was arrested on March 20 and has been in custody pending a preliminary and detention hearing, which was...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - PATRICIA ALFIERI, 53, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Gary L. Sharpe to 41 months imprisonment for mail fraud and filing a false return, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Shantelle P. Kitchen. ALFIERI was also ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $47,484.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif.) - Marijuana cultivators from Fresno and Stanislaus Counties entered guilty pleas today in three cases and sentenced in two for their involvement in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Chapmanville, W.Va. man who sold the powerful prescription painkiller oxymorphone, commonly sold under the brand name Opana, pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Carl Tomblin, 50, pleaded guilty to distribution of oxymorphone before United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. in Charleston.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Currently, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), is considering the bipartisan “Ukraine Support Act" (H.R. 4278), legislation to promote Ukraine’s sovereignty and democratic institutions while sanctioning those who have sought to undermine Ukraine’s independence and stability. Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) introduced the legislation last Friday. Live webcast of the markup is available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Jose O. Jimenez, age 27, of Palisade, Colorado, pled guilty last week to attempted armed bank robbery, United States Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle announced. Jimenez was one of three people indicted for their involvement in, or knowledge...
