News from November 2014
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - National Park Service (NPS) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) fire managers, working together as the North Zone Interagency Fire Management Program, anticipate initiating prescribed fire treatment on the Campground unit of the Bright Angel Rx on Wednesday, November 19 as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Yesterday afternoon, park rangers were notified that Peter Jeffris, 25, from Broomfield, Colorado, was overdue from a mountaineering trek to Rocky Mountain National Park and was believed to be in the Longs Peak area. His car was located in the parking lot at the Longs Peak Trailhead. He reportedly left...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A former Branch Manager at BBVA Compass Bank in Big Spring, Texas, (BBVA Big Spring) was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings on a bank fraud conviction, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Washington - Today, at the U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council’s annual workshop, U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Michael T. Scuse gave the keynote address and announced an upcoming trade mission to Malaysia and the Philippines to promote U.S. agricultural exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Maurice McCray, 34, of Waterville, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor by Chief Judge John...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Justin Jose Snow, a/k/a “J.O.," age 22; his brother, Johnny Devon Snow, age 20; their cousin Taylor Yvonne Snow, age 22; and Arkeene Antoyn Redditt-Abrams, a/k/a “Duke," age 26, all of Baltimore, today in connection with the armed robberies of three cell phone stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Aaron Kwandranc, 29, of Woonsocket, was sentenced today to 110 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for distribution of crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, East Providence Police Chief Christopher J. Parella, Woonsocket Police Chief Thomas S. Carey and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
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By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today made the following statement congratulating Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on his selection as the chairman of the Oversight Committee for the 114th Congress by the Republican Steering Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: TRENTON N.J. - An Essex County, N.J. contractor who was paid nearly $100,000 to renovate the home of a Bronx, N.Y., woman, was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for defrauding her of the money in connection with the remodeling project, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his roles in a 10-year long drug-trafficking conspiracy that resulted in the death of one individual and the distribution of more than three kilograms of heroin in the Kansas City area.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, published the following op-ed today in the Miami Herald on the need for the United States to increase its presence in the Caribbean.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Victim Non-Profits Provided Services to the Homeless, Disadvantaged Children,.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict today, finding Donald J. Peel, 64, of Las Vegas, Nevada, guilty of transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in unlawful sexual activity, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN.- A man from Nevada was sentenced Tuesday to 135 months in federal prison after being stopped in June with 80 pounds of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James Higgins, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced GREGORY STARKIE, 34,of Greenville, North Carolina, to 96 months in prison and 3 years of supervised released for distribution of crack cocaine and aiding and abetting the distribution of heroin. STARKIE previously pled guilty to these charges on May 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, the U.S. State Department’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program announced the offering of rewards for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Romanian fugitive Nicolae Popescu,1 the leader of an international organized crime syndicate that ran a multimillion dollar...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: A woman who forged a court order in support of her request for a bank loan and a separate letter purporting to be from a United States Department of Justice official was sentenced on November17, 2014, to nearly four years in federal prison.
