News from October 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Today in Brooklyn federal court, Laron Spicer, also known as “Face," a leader of the “Nine-Trey Gangsters" set of the Bloods street gang in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was sentenced to a 30-year prison term for charges related to the set’s control of illegal activity on Sterling Place between Buffalo and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Vyron A. Cox, Jr., age 28, of Washington, D.C., today to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a gun and possession with intent to distribute 5.45 grams of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man today admitted his involvement in a heroin distribution ring, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office, the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office, and the Lansing Police Department announced today that three people have been charged and arrested with operating...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Philip DeBartolo, 29, of Scituate, pled guilty in federal court in Providence today to being a felon in possession of 12 firearms and to drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston field divisionof ATF; Scituate Police Chief Colonel David M. Randall; and Michael Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England field division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announces that Anthony S. King, a 35 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced today. Mr. King pled guilty on February 5, 2014, to Possession with intent to distribute 226 grams of cocaine. Mr. King received a sentence of 130 months incarceration followed...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement on the September jobs report.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of 11 individuals charged with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in Minnesota. The indictment is the result of a two-year investigation, and a collaborative effort among members of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension...

By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Contact: Valerie Gohlke 575-785-3090, Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alexander Hughes, 35, of Odenton, Md., was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for sexually abusing a subordinate employee in the cafeteria of a federal building where they worked in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALFREDO VARELA-HERNANDEZ, age 35, a citizen of Honduras who recently resided in Kenner, Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a one-count bill of information with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jerry Lane Golliher, age 32, of Rapid City, South Dakota, was found guilty of Commercial Sex Trafficking following a two-day federal jury trial held in U.S. District Court in Rapid City. The guilty verdict was returned on Oct. 1, 2014.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Two men who defrauded a bank that received Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds were sentenced this week for their criminal conduct, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Case Is One of Many Prosecuted As Part of United States Attorney Wigginton’s Armed Robbery Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Oct. 3, 2014 14-079. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Guilty Verdict In Third Yellowstone Unmanned Aircraft...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Effective Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks are lifting fire restrictions inside the parks. Recent rain and shorter and cooler days have reduced fire danger.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, ...