News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Washington DC - Thomas W. Padden, Director, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), Department of Justice, announced that the District of North Dakota was the recipient of the 2014 OCDETF National Award for Outstanding Investigation for Creative Response to Emerging Public Safety Threat...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - A member of a drug trafficking organization with ties to the Los Zetas Cartel operating in Piedras Negras, Mexico, faces up to life in federal prison after a jury convicted him of smuggling thousands of kilograms of marijuana into the United States from Mexico announced Joseph M. Arabit, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: OXFORD, MS. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and Richard L. Walker, Special Agent in Charge, U. S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General - Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and United States Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Darryl Williams, age 26, a resident of Gulfport, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA -Jacobo Feliciano-Francisco, a/k/a “Kiko", age 32, was sentenced in United States District Court yesterday to spend the remainder of his life in prison after he...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two brothers have pleaded guilty to a mail fraud scheme that involved the distribution of more than $1.2 million of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2, from a store in Lebanon, Mo.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s release of Volume 3 of the Yucca Mountain Safety Evaluation Repor (SER). The report is the most important, independent technical evaluation of whether the Department of Energy’s license...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance in locating DARRELL BARHAM who is wanted for his alleged involvement in a heroin trafficking and distribution enterprise comprised of members and associates of the "Bricks R Us" street gang, which operated in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to BARHAM’s arrest. The reward is available for 90 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that QUENSHEY MITCHELL, a/k/a “Ripper," “Baby Ripper," and “Q", age 37, from Los Angeles, California, was sentenced today to life imprisonment for violating federal heroin trafficking and obstruction of justice laws. MITCHELL is a member of the Rollin 60s Crips Gang based in Los Angeles, California.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s release of Volume 3 of the Yucca Mountain Safety Evaluation Repor (SER). The report is the most important, independent technical evaluation of whether the Department of Energy’s license...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Oct. 15, 2014, Lawrence Thigpen, 53, of Collinsville, Illinois, pled...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: BALTIMORE - A federal grand jury has indicted nine defendants - seven men and two women - who are alleged to be members of the Jenifer drug trafficking (Jenifer DTO) for conspiring to distribute kilograms of cocaine in the Baltimore metropolitan and Woodbridge, Virginia areas. The indictment seeks the forfeiture of $15 million. The indictment was returned on Sept. 3, 2014 and unsealed on October 9, 2014 upon the arrests of defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Richard...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $1.4 billion in USDA loan guarantees to improve the delivery of electric power to rural communities in 21 states.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa are again pushing the U.S. Department of Justice to be forthcoming about yet another gun found at the scene of a shooting in Arizona and connected to the ill-advised gunwalking strategy known as Operation Fast and Furious.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s release of Volume 3 of the Yucca Mountain Safety Evaluation Repor (SER). The report is the most important, independent technical evaluation of whether the Department of Energy’s license...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that the Director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) for the U.S. Department of Justice recognized Operation Tango and Cash as the National 2014 Outstanding International Primary Money Laundering Investigation and the 2014 Special Investigation of the Year for the Southeast Region.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) released the following statements regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing, Examining the U.S. Public Health Response to the Ebola Outbreak, this Thursday, Oct. 16, at 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) released the following statements regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing, Examining the U.S. Public Health Response to the Ebola Outbreak, this Thursday, Oct. 16, at 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: RUTLAND, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, sentenced Joshua (a.k.a.
