News from October 2014
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: A partnership of the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service recently resulted in the rebuilding of Lick Creek Bridge on the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail in McCreary County, Kentucky. The bridge spans Lick Creek in the Stearns District of the Daniel Boone National Forest near the boundary of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, and the creek crossing forms the intersection of the Sheltowee Trace and Lick Creek Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division, United States Attorney Ortiz, and Salem Police Chief Tucker, made the announcement today that three North Shore men have been indicted for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl in Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TIMOTHY DUCKWORTH, age 44, of Metairie, Louisiana, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with making false statements on income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: More than 2,000 individuals victimized as a result of the defendants' scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), announced that separate criminal charges were filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg against two illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that a federal grand jury in Syracuse has handed down a 21 count superseding indictment against defendants STEPHEN M. HOWELLS II and NICOLE F. VAISEY. The superseding indictment, filed today, accuses HOWELLS with child exploitation offenses in all 21 counts, and charges VAISEY together with HOWELLS in 10 of the counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Spokane -Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Timothy Joseph Carlson, age 58, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty on August 8, 2014 to Receipt of Child Pornography. Senior United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Charles Douglas Notbohm, Jr., 50, of Tucson, Ariz., pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: ST.LOUIS - DEA St. Louis today announced that local residents returned over 27 tons of unwanted, expired medications as part of the ninth and final National Prescription Drug Takeback Day. The St. Louis Field Division of DEA represents the southern portion of Illinois and five other states. Thanks to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 13 months incarceration, to be followed by five years of supervised release, of which the first six months will be served at Renewal, Inc. on his conviction of failing to register as a convicted sex offender, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: A man who illegally possessed firearms on two occasions was sentenced today to five years in federal prison. Timothy Rush, age 24, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a July 30, 2014 guilty plea to one count of being an unlawful user of controlled substances (marijuana) in possession of a firearm, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Tuesday, October 7, 2014, the grand jury returned a sixteen count indictment charging Todd A. Brunner (age 57), and Shawn A. Brunner, (age: 24), both of Pewaukee, Wisconsin with bank fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344; and false declarations and oaths, and concealing assets in bankruptcy, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 152.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Boone County man who falsified mandatory mine safety reports, pleaded guilty today to a federal charge announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Shawn Glenn Stover, 29, of Whitesville, West Virginia admitted to falsifying a Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) document while working at a Boone County mine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: On October 8, 2014, Juan Carlos Garcia-Gamino, 26, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine in Lincoln. Garcia-Gamino was ordered to serve four years on supervised release following the prison term. However, it is likely he will be deported upon completion of his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: In Waco today, U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith, Jr. sentenced 32-year-old Daniel Ethan Clark to 30 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release on child pornography charges announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher H. Combs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - James Ashby Moncure, Jr., 42, of Fredericksburg, Va., was charged with five counts of Wire Fraud, one count of Mail Fraud, and two counts of Engaging in Unlawful Monetary Transactions. If convicted on all charges, Moncure faces up to 140 years in prison and a fine of $2,000,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Since the President took office in January 2009, middle-class Americans have been saddled with slow economic growth, weak job markets, and smaller paychecks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today in federal court charging Eric C. Opitz, 45, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey with health care fraud, mail fraud, and the illegal distribution human growth hormones (“HGH") and anabolic steroids, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 8, 2014
News Release: Sweet, juicy mandarin oranges get their pleasing flavor from a complex blend of natural chemicals. In ongoing experiments, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist David M. Obenland and co-investigator Mary Lu Arpaia, with the University of California Riverside, are taking a close look at how storage temperatures and the amount of time in storage at packinghouses affect the flavor of these small, colorful oranges.
