News from May 2014
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Acting Superintendent Lisa Etherington announced today that a vessel speed limit of 13 knots through the water will be implemented in lower Glacier Bay and in Park waters at the mouth of Glacier Bay to protect numerous humpback whales that have been sighted in this...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri man pleaded guilty Monday to a robbery in December at a bank in Shawnee, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert Kelly Carter, 50, of Lisbon, Maine, (formerly of Madison, Indiana) was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to ten years in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a felon. Carter pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Puerto Rico Police seized nearly 1,280 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated whole sale value of $37 million, and apprehended two Dominican Republic nationals during an at-sea interdiction...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Defendant One of Eleven in Gun and Drug Trafficking Case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Jason Stacks, a former Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) Deputy, pleaded guilty to conspiring to use his law enforcement authority to unlawfully detain and take money from motorists.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON, OHIO - A two-count criminal complaint charging Neil Richard Moore, 59, of Trotwood, Ohio with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of use of a deadly weapon during the commission of a crime of violence has been filed in U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ronald Cleveland, a/k/a Pretty Tony, a/k/a P.T., a/k/a Success, a/k/a Cess, 44 of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, a fine of $8,000,000 or both.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Nerve agents are among the world's most feared chemical weapons, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a way to engineer carbon nanotubes to dismantle the molecules of a major class of these chemicals.* In principle, they say, the nanotubes could be woven into clothing that destroys the nerve agents on contact before they reach the skin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Allegations Relate to Marshall Reed Apartments in Carbondale.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - The former longtime elected clerk for the Village of Burnham was charged today with stealing more than $650,862 from her office at the south suburb’s village hall and using most of the cash to gamble at casinos. The defendant, NANCY DOBROWSKI, was charged with one count each of wire fraud and filing a false federal income tax return in a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Lansing, Michigan - Reducing crime through prisoner re-entry 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: ROME, Ga. - Rodney Scott Blankenship has been sentenced to 17 years, and four months in prison for carjacking a Cedartown woman at gun point on Aug. 31, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lancelot Lapahie, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today for his statutory rape conviction. As required by the terms of his plea agreement, Lapahie was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release. He...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced guilty pleas in Federal court by two men on charges related to sex trafficking stemming from investigations by the Tulsa Police Department’s Vice Unit.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: NORWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office is extending the public comment period for the preliminary Norwood-Burn Canyon Comprehensive Travel Management Plan Environmental Assessment due to technical difficulties associated with the project email address.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Sussex County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for using a computer in his home to distribute images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: We write regarding the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s (TIGTA) report to the public on April 22, 2014, citing the several thousand IRS employees with either substantial conduct or tax compliance problems who received monetary or time-off awards. In several...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is seeking collaborators to provide products and technical expertise to create a model, standards-based system that companies in the financial services sector could use to integrate their existing asset management, hardware and software support and information technology security into a single comprehensive system.
