News from November 2014
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: A phytochemical compound called tannic acid may be an effective scavenger of peanut allergens, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. The study was conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) food technologist Si-Yin Chung and support scientist Shawndrika Reed, in the agency's Food Processing and Sensory Quality Research Unit in New Orleans, Louisiana. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, praised the recent release of a new analytical tool to track oil imports produced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Kentorre D. Hall a/k/a Toto, Roger Randale Jones a/k/a Hitman, and Martel Torres Barnes a/k/a Marty Mar, were each sentenced to life in prison plus five years by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett in Hattiesburg today, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Phillip Durham, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Each of the defendants was also ordered to pay a fine of $75,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and leaders of the Multi-Agency Gang Unit announced today that James Earl McCracken, 27, of Memphis, Tennessee, was indicted by a federal grand jury for a violation of the Hobbs Act. The Hobbs Act makes it a federal crime to commit a robbery that interferes with interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Sherif Akande, age 36 of Bladensburg, Maryland, today to 199 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to commit bank fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Judge Titus also entered an order that Akande pay restitution of $111,052.67.
By State Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A 48-year old Kanawha County man faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty today to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Jeffrey Erra Osborne, of Clendenin, West Virginia entered a guilty plea before United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-This week marks the one-year anniversary of the landmark Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA), which Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) introduced and led to passage in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: - Ordered to pay $6,660 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that over the last two months a federal grand jury in Boise indicted fourteen gang members and associates in twelve separate indictments for crimes including distributing methamphetamine and possessing firearms. The charges are the result of a long-term...
By State Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement following an announcement of an extension of negotiations surrounding Iran’s nuclear program for an additional seven months. International negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program have been taking place for the past decade, and have been particularly intense over the past year.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Mosquitoes not only have a sense of smell for certain insect repellents, but they also have a sense of taste for these chemicals, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Kevin Andrew Jauron, age 39, from Marion, Iowa, has been charged with one count of production of child pornography. The charge is contained in an Indictment filed on Nov. 18, 2014, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Randall D. Pitcher, age 52, of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, who owns and operates the Wolf Creek Ski Area within the confines of the Rio Grande National Forest, was charged and pled guilty today to conducting work in the forest without a permit, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and U.S. Forest Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation, Nashville Field Office, announced that an Information was filed, on Gregory Warren, age 52, a resident of North Little Rock, for five counts of failure to file his federal income tax returns with the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and music with the community and visitors in December. All programs are free, but park entrance fees apply. Programs are co-sponsored by the Hawai‘i Pacific Parks Association. Mark the calendar for these upcoming events.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MELANIE ANN MAHANEY was sentenced to 39 months in prison on multiple fraud charges involving bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Johnnie Jones, 32, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to online enticement of a minor before U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a maximum penalty of life in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Jesse Ramirez-Orta, 27, of Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute five hundred grams or more of methamphetamine and one kilogram or more of heroin, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - ― A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison and, separately, guilty pleas were unsealed in the same case for twin brothers who ran the cartel’s Chicago distribution cell and supplied vast quantities of cocaine and heroin in cities across the United States and Canada.
