News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the international criminal street gang Mara Salvatrucha (also known as “MS" or “MS-13"), today admitted trying to kill a rival gang member, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the unsealing of another federal grand jury indictment in Operation I Spy, an extensive investigation into a drug trafficking network operating in the Baton Rouge region.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Louis J. Dinunzio, 27, of Medford, Joseph Spagnuolo-Kazonis, 29, of Boston, John Woodman, 42, of Braintree, and Robert Fitzpatrick, 40, of Quincy, were charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 kilograms or more of marijuana.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: An office within the federal agency responsible for protecting the interests of small businesses and helping ensure a strong economy has asked the Administration to withdraw a proposed rule that changes the scope of existing law without Congress’ authority and expand federal regulatory power under the Clean Water Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama delivered remarks today on the economy...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that DAYRON OTONIEL MADRID-GUILLEN, 28, a Honduran national illegally residing in the United States, pled guilty today to possession of a handgun by a person illegally present in the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(5)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for using a minor to produce child pornography. Tyler Coons, 23, of Springfield, was charged...
By State Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: As the United States prepares for the resumption of negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran to achieve a comprehensive nuclear agreement, we remain deeply concerned with Iran’s refusal to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency. As you know, the IAEA has sought...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A35-year-old Longview, Texas man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management, in conjunction with other agencies within the Department of the Interior, will waive recreation-related fees for visitors to the National System of Public Lands on four occasions in 2015 -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Jan. 19), Presidents' Day weekend (Feb. 14-16), National...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The body of an adult male was found at Lake Mohave Oct. 1.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 21st Century Cures initiative is on the road again as Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) prepares to host a roundtable discussion next Tuesday, October 7, 2014, at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Previous roundtables and hearings...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Stole Over $370,000 Worth of Property in at least 12 Burglaries in Virginia and Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Christina Chai, the supervising pharmacist at Stanley Pharmacy in Yonkers, New (“Stanley Pharmacy"), and Hi Jong Lee, the owner of Stanley Pharmacy and also a pharmacist, were found guilty Monday...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the conviction of the final defendant in Operation Left Overs, a long-running series of prosecutions aimed at dismantling a drug trafficking network in the Baton Rouge area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gerardo Hernandez-Barragan, 41, of Mexico, who was convicted of illegal reentry after a conviction of an aggravated felony, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Tamika Floyd (30), a resident of Salem, Ala., pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft for her involvement in a Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme (SIRF), announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: October at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a magical time.Mountainsides become an artist's palette of color as the mustard yellows of the hickories, the oranges of the maples, the brick maroons of the sourwoods and the purples of the dogwoods appear.Even poison ivy takes part in this gala...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID RILEY, former Chief Information Officer of Foundry Networks, Inc. (“Foundry"), a California-based technology company that was acquired by Brocade Communications, Inc. (“Brocade"), in 2008, was found...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, returned guilty verdicts, on all three counts, against Christopher Steele, a/k/a/ “Mike Dozor," 34, of Newark, DE, in a child exploitation case. Steele was indicted on March 6, 2014 for use of an interstate commerce facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual...
