News from November 2014
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River, in partnership with local bowyer, Travis Gosnell, presents another primitive bow workshop on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 5:00 p.m. (ET). Mr. Gosnell will be continuing the process of building a primitive bow. This event will take place in the Obed Visitor Center in Wartburg, Tennessee. Mr. Gosnell is a history teacher at Wartburg Middle School and has devoted much of his life studying local historical events.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Mark Gardner, 56, of Abington, was indicted in U.S. District Court in Boston on theft of public money. The indictment alleges that from July 2009 to January 2014, Gardner stole $65,311 in Social Security benefits.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: For Armed Carjacking in Northwest Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Chad.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 10th Street Gang member Miguel Moscoso, 23, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO), was sentenced to 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant murdered Christian Portes, a member of the rival 7th Street Gang, on June 13, 2009 at the corner of Whitney Place and Maryland Street.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The Department of Justice commends the Albuquerque City Council for its historic vote unanimously endorsing the settlement agreement on use of force by the Albuquerque Police Department. Yesterday’s vote affirmed the Council’s partnership in pursuing sustainable reforms that will ensure...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SELVIN IRIAS-MURILLO, age 44, from Honduras, was charged today in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported, in violation of 8 U.S.C. '1326(a).

By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today published the formal Notice of Availability for the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the proposed Greater Mooses Tooth Unit oil and gas development project (GMT1) within the National...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - Martin C. Eldridge III, 35, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 31 months in prison, 280 days of which has already been served, for violating the Clean Air Act when he cut the tubing on air conditioning units he was stealing and released a regulated refrigerant into the environment.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: The push for more efficient air conditioners and heat pumps aims to trim the 30 percent share of residential electrical energy use devoted to cooling and heating. But the benefits of improved energy efficiency ratings can go for naught if the equipment is not installed properly, as verified in a recent study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
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By DOE Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to new reports regarding the recalls of vehicles equipped with faulty Takata air bag inflators. The New York Times today reported that Takata may have been aware of the dangerous defect as early as 2004 but...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that 10 individuals, including the alleged ringleader, were indicted today for allegedly operating a Paterson-based drug ring that...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced today to serve nine years in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for sex trafficking of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: Today the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service are announcing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's release of Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Jordan Cove Energy and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Projects. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is the lead Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, and Ronald J. Verrochio, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Miami Division, announce that Jeffrey...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: Drug trafficker caught in Yellowstone. In May of 2014, Park Rangers in Yellowstone National Park observed a 2003 Monarch Monaco RV parked at Grants Village - an area closed to camping - after dark and with its lights on and generator running. While contacting the driver, Daphne Watkins, rangers smelled...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GIE PRESTON, age 39, BURNELL ALLEN, age 35, and SONNY ALLEN, age 31, all residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, were convicted late yesterday after a 4-day jury trial. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on a superseding indictment charging all defendants...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man and a woman who operated massage parlors in Topeka were sentenced in federal court here Friday for running a prostitution business, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.