News from May 2014
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: As the boating season gets underway for waters within Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, boaters are reminded that both a park permit and a State of Wyoming aquatic invasive species (AIS) permit are required. Permits may be purchased at park visitor centers located in Moose, Jenny Lake, or Colter Bay.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Monico Dominguez was sentenced today to thirty two years imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Trinidad Jesus Suarez, age 26, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Senior United States District Court Judge Edward F. Shea sentenced Suarez to a 174 month term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 60 month term of court supervision upon release from Federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Eric Dynell McGadney, 36, of Mobile, was sentenced today in federal court to 188 months imprisonment for his activities in arranging for the delivery of 144 pills of MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy, to Mobile in the mail. Court documents reflect that the package McGadney ordered was identified...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: The Finance Committee meets today to discuss the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius expressing concern that HHS is “willfully failing to comply with the Committee’s subpoena" for documents related to HealthCare.gov, and detailing the White House’s involvement in redacting documents without a clear assertion of Executive Privilege.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gina Nelson, 31, of Bradley, Maineand Michael Tardiff, a/k/a “Bub", 54, of Old Town, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute MDPV, a chemical compound commonly referred to as “bath salts" or “monkey dust".
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Kelly Jay Duarte, the 22-year-old former proprietor of Urban City, a retail business in Odessa, faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier today to one count of possession of a synthetic cannabinoid with intent to distribute announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites children in grades 4 - 8 to participate in the park's fifth annual summer day camp, entitled A Call to Arms: The Gateway in Union Hands. This year the park will conduct two camps, each for different grade levels. The first...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On May 6, 2014, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Travis D. Bailey, 30, of Carbondale, Illinois, with Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man charged with Failure to Appear pled guilty and was sentenced on May 13, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 40-year-old Quitman, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: The elevator at the Washington Monument temporarily stopped functioning this morning 10:53 a.m. The 18 visitors in the elevator were able to disembark on the ground level. There were 61 visitors at the observation level at the time of the stoppage. All were evacuated safely. The elevator contractor was contacted and the elevator was put back into service at 12:25 p.m. The contractor is at the site trying to determine the cause of the stoppage and to resolve any issues.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- Benjamin Dwayne Swiger, 28, of Gray, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Upon his release from prison, Swiger will serve a life term of supervised release with special conditions. Swiger pleaded guilty in January 2014 to a federal indictment charging him with distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R - Today, United States District Court Judge Francisco Besosa revoked the probation term of convict Julio A. García-Encarnación, a well-known and highly appraised race horse jockey, for failure to pay legal child support obligations, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: As tropical cyclones move into higher latitudes, some regions closer to the equator may experience reduced risk, while coastal populations and infrastructure poleward of the tropics may experience increased risk. With their devastating winds and flooding, tropical cyclones can especially endanger coastal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A West Hartford man was charged in U.S. District Court in Worcester yesterday with sending obscene images to a 14-year-old boy over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND Va. - Clyde Maurice Neblett, III, 23, of Richmond, Virginia, a member of the Nine Trey Gangsters, was sentenced today on three firearms offenses. A jury convicted Neblett in January of possession of three firearms by a felon and also, in a separate incident, of possessing a fourth gun while ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Henderson County, Kentucky, man was charged today, by a federal grand jury in Bowling Green, with human trafficking after allegedly recruiting two minors to engage in commercial sex acts announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
