News from October 2014
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is asking the public to review and comment on a draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) and a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices. The comment period opened with the publication of a notice of availability in the Federal Register today. Comments will be accepted during a 90-day period which closes January 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE LUIS MAYORGA-LEMUS, age 24, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alex Alexander, 21, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from a pair of robberies that took place within a 36-hour period of a convenience store in Montgomery County, Md. and a bank in the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: Juan Roberto Andrade-Andrade, 40, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on October 8, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Andrade-Andrade was arrested in Jackson, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kimberling City, Mo., man who worked as an emergency room physician pleaded guilty in federal court today to failing to file tax returns despite earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in income each year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida and Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that Rafael Alberto Cadena-Sosa pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to one count of conspiracy and one...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today the convening of a public forum to address violent crime on the East Side of Buffalo. The forum - dubbed “Take Back our Streets" - will share information about crime in East Side neighborhoods and seek information about who is committing it.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - On the evening of Saturday, Nov. 15, the popular "Night Museum" program will return to Andersonville National Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on October 6, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Join the National Park Service (NPS) at Arlington House - The Robert E. Lee Memorial for a day and evening of special programs commemorating the important African American history at the former plantation. Programming runs from 2 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, and features African...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington yesterday sentenced Jerman Antwon Green (29, Lakeland) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty on June 19, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that Defendant MARION MENDIOLA, was sentenced on October 7, 2014, in the District Court of Guam by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, October 9, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that today, Tisa V. Vaughn, 49, of Florissant, Missouri, was sentenced on a one-count indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Wissam Khalil, 41, of Central Falls, R.I., and his brother, Bassam Nazir Khalil 49, of Pawtucket, R.I., were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today for their roles as leaders of a complex interstate conspiracy that transported more than 6 million contraband cigarettes from Virginia to Rhode Island. The sale of the contraband cigarettes in Rhode Island resulted in the loss to the State of nearly $1.1 million dollars in tax stamp revenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley and the Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force announced today that the Shreveport and Bossier City police departments have been awarded more than $161,000 in grants through a Department of Justice (DOJ), the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), under the Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction Program, also known as Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Todd Glenn Dean, 50, of Rochester, N.Y, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to entice minor to engage in sexual acts, and attempting to produce child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 25 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley, and members of her office, Mike Campbell, Law Enforcement Community Coordinator (LECC), and Robert Gillespie, Jr., an Assistant U.S. Attorney/Project Safe Neighborhoods Coordinator, joined Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover, Shreveport Police Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2014
News Release: Kirk Weir Ordered To Repay $371,738.18 To The Victims Of His Scheme To Defraud.
