News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Howes, South Dakota, man has been charged with a federal offense of Unlawful Taking of Bald Eagle by an Information filed on April 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- United States Attorney Andrew Luger announced today that a United States Grand Jury indicted four men for their roles in a large-scale, methamphetamine-trafficking organization and a violent kidnapping in St. Paul. The indictment, returned on May 5, 2014 and unsealed today, charges Jesus...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging Ryan Russow, 29, of Milford, with heroin distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Nikki Ann Nazarian, 40, of Akron, Ohio, was indicted today by a federal grand jury for failure to register and update registration as required under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining funding options for highways and transit...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Amber Dorius (31, St. George, Utah) today pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to distribute marijuana. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr., 43, of Youngstown, Ohio, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: At approximately 4 pm today (Monday) the body of James Wilson Taylor was located upstream of Baker Ford near Rocky Hollow. The body was found in the Buffalo River by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Dive Team and Harrison Fire Department crews. A total of 52 people were deployed today. The teams were...
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: A backcountry snowboarder died in Grand Teton National Park on Monday, May 5th, likely from the traumatic injuries he sustained during a 1,500 foot fall on Teewinot Mountain that morning. Joseph Lohr, 24, from Anchorage, Alaska, and two companions had summited the 12,325-foot mountain around 10 a.m. and were descending the snow-covered peak on snowboards and skis when the accident occurred.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: LANSING, MICHIGAN - Reducing crime through prisoner reentry was the focus of a summit today in Lansing, organized by Barbara L. McQuade, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Patrick A. Miles, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Former Fulton County Deputy Sheriff Reginald Warren pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that he demanded bribe payments from security officers assigned to work at the City of Atlanta's public swimming pools.
By State Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing: “Ukraine - Countering Russian Intervention and Supporting a Democratic State." The remarks follow:
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that George W. Curtis (77 years old) of Pickett, Wisconsin was sentenced in federal court in Green Bay yesterday for failing to pay federal income taxes he owed for the years 2007 - 2009. Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced...
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Department of Commerce's (DOC) 2013 Technology Transfer Report. The annual report summarizes the technology transfer activities of its three federal laboratories: NIST, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Banker, Real Estate Lawyers, Appraiser, And Straw Buyers Allegedly Carried Out Scheme To Obtain Inflated Mortgage Funding Then Re-Sold “Toxic" Loans To The Market.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: CALABASAS, Calif. - Fans of all things slithery and scaly are invited to attend the Live Reptile and Amphibian Show at the Santa Monica Mountains Visitor Center on Sunday, May 18 from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: A six-count indictment was filed charging a Youngtown man with distributing heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Edward Robert Hudson, 51, of Painesville, with one count of bank robbery, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Vinston Boxton-Moises (48, San Andres Island, Colombia, South America) today pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, knowing that the cocaine would be unlawfully imported into the United States. Boxton faces a mandatory minimum penalty of ten years in federal prison, up to a maximum term of life imprisonment.
