News from October 2014
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 43 organizations in 27 states for grants and loans to help create jobs and boost economic development activity in rural areas. The announcement culminates a week in which the department has been highlighting products that are Made In Rural America.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the latest confirmed case of Ebola in the United States, a doctor in New York who recently returned from Guinea where he had treated patients for Doctors Without Borders. A group of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: For Attacking Woman Inside Her Northwest Washington Home.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Theft or Embezzlement in Connection with Health Care was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the latest confirmed case of Ebola in the United States, a doctor in New York who recently returned from Guinea where he had treated patients for Doctors Without Borders. A group of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, announce the filing of a superseding indictment charging Yuri Sucart, 52, of Miami, FL, Juan Carlos Nuñez, 48...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Case is one of many brought as a result of United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton’s Metro-East Armed Robbery Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Trafficking with Respect to Involuntary Servitude and Forced Labor was sentenced on Oct. 17, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Amanda Marshall, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced that a federal jury in Eugene, Oregon has returned verdicts convicting Ronald Joling, 71, and Dorothea Joling, 72, both of Coquille, Oregon, of federal criminal tax violations. Ronald Joling was found guilty of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence returned a seven-count indictment on Thursday charging three individuals with allegedly participating in a conspiracy to traffic young females from Boston to Rhode Island with the intent to force them to participate in commercial sexual activity...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley doctor has pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges that allege he illegally distributed drugs that include the powerful and addictive painkiller oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced today that Patricia F. Baker, 50, of Memphis, TN was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sheryl H. Lipman to serve 18 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Cesar Cruz-Marin, 39, a citizen of El Salvador, was arrested yesterday in Nashville and charged with unlawful re-entry into the United States, after being convicted of an aggravated felony, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Charles Knights, 43, of Weymouth, was sentenced today for attempted bank robbery and two counts of bank robbery. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton sentenced Knights to six years in prison and three years of supervised release on each count, all to run concurrently. Knights was on supervised release at the time of his offenses and was previously sentenced to six months’ incarceration on a supervised release violation.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: We live in an age where a savvy entrepreneur in Burlington or Omaha can create good jobs at a good profit by marketing a new idea or product through the Internet to a worldwide audience. Through an uninhibited flow of data, the Internet has truly empowered small and large businesses alike to fully participate in the global economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - WALTER ELICER LUNA CAYSEDA, 49, of Bronx, New York, pled guilty yesterday in Plattsburgh, New York, to making a false statement and aggravated identity theft before United States District Court Judge David N. Hurd announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, and U.S. Customs...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Twenty four (24) defendants made initial appearances in Federal Court today on Indictments charging them with conspiracy to traffic cocaine/crack cocaine and money laundering offenses based on those defendants supplying local street gangs with illegal drugs. The defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Williams spoke to students at N.R. Burger Middle School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on October 16 and 17 as a part of the school’s recognition of National Bullying Prevention Month. The officials presented the Southern...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Seven Perry County residents were indicted on October 7, 2014, in an indictment, charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Vernon J. Atcitty, 29, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Sweetwater, Ariz., was sentenced today for his aggravated sexual assault conviction. Atcitty will serve an eight-year prison term followed by five years of supervised release. He also will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
