News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Dianelys Armengol Guevara, 28, of Pembroke Pines and Dallas, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the WTO ruling that duties that China imposed on the U.S. auto industry in 2011 were in violation of international trade rules...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two indictments have been unsealed following the arrest of one McAllen and four Zapata residents alleging marijuana and/or cocaine trafficking, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LOUIS MCINTOSH, 32, was sentenced today to 60 years in prison by United States District Judge Sidney H. Stein in Manhattan federal court for his role in an armed robbery conspiracy. MCINTOSH was convicted on Aug. 22, 2013, after a nine-day trial before Judge Stein.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Orlando, and Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of nine separate indictments charging individuals with stealing approximately $1.4 million in federal benefits to which they were not entitled. The penalty for stealing federal benefits is up...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park opened at 10:15 a.m. today, Friday, May 23. Due to heavy melting on the road during the day and freezing temperatures at night, visitors should plan for night closures occurring at 8:00 p.m. at least through Monday night, May 26. The need for night closures...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area’s developed campground -- Red Rock Campground -- is scheduled to temporarily close from May 27 to Aug. 29, 2014 during this low-usage period.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today that Vincent Isaac-Peter Jones, age 28, of Battle Creek, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell to possessing two pistols as a convicted felon and possessing a third pistol in furtherance of heroin trafficking. Jones faces penalties of up to ten years in prison for the former offense and up to life in prison for the drug-related crime.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Earlier today Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced $6.7 million in grants to support conservation employment and mentoring opportunities at 43 projects on public lands across the country. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Arizona is a recipient of three of those grants totaling $581,368 that will go to hire young people and veterans to work on public lands managed by the BLM Phoenix and Gila districts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway Opens for Through Travel after Successful Vehicle-free Weekend Superintendent Darlene M. Koontz announced today that the park highway through Lassen Volcanic National Park has opened. "The unusually warm spring weather and light winter has helped to clear the highway...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that Juan Alberto Ortiz-Lopez, a/k/a “Chamale," a/k/a “Juanito," (43, San Marcos, Guatemala) has been extradited...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez on Thursday sentenced Fenyang Ouma Francis, 24, to 21 months in prison for a felon in possession of a firearm conviction, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Summer trail rides will begin in Theodore Roosevelt National Park on Saturday, May 24.Shadow Country Outfitters, the park's only concessioner, runs the popular horseback riding operation from the historic Peaceful Valley Ranch.The first ride of the season is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. MDT.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - James Contreras was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine for making false statements to the government, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and United States Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s intent to nominate Shaun Donovan to be the next Director of the Office of Management and Budget...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released the following statement regarding the decision by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revise previously proposed rules regarding 501c4 organizations...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging former Illinois State Rep. KEITH FARNHAM with possessing, receiving, and transporting child pornography, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Farnham was initially charged with one count of possession of child pornography in a criminal complaint filed last month in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Rathanak Van, 28, of Stockton, was sentenced on Thursday by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 11 years and three months in prison for conspiring to commit a robbery and conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
