News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, OREGON- On Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Dennis William Lee, 45, of Medford, Oregon, to 10 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Sanchez will be on three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term. Lee’s 10-year sentence is the maximum allowed under federal law.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Energy and Skyonic Corporation marked the opening of a major project demonstration for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into commercial products. This new plant will use a first-of-its-kind process to capture 75,000 tons of CO2 from a San Antonio, Texas, cement plant and convert the greenhouse gas into other products, including sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, hydrochloric acid and bleach.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing $4.9 million in 50 projects across the country to support small and emerging rural businesses and rural transportation projects.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Four separate investigations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led to the seizure of several looted Peruvian artifacts smuggled into the United States during the last several years. The artifacts were returned Wednesday to the Peruvian Consuls during simultaneous repatriation ceremonies in San Antonio, Denver and Boston.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has engaged nine experts in fields ranging from transportation and water infrastructure to societal dimensions of disasters to further its ongoing effort to draft a disaster resilience framework for U.S. communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for committing two armed robberies of commercial establishments in Essex County, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Cartel del Golfo, has made an initial appearance in the Eastern District of Texas on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kevin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. -Antwan Black, a/k/a “Twizzy," 31, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison, followed by 8 years of supervised release for the distribution of heroin and crack cocaine. He was further sentenced to an additional consecutive 5 years in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Manuel Orosa, Chief...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: This week, Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) is hosting officials from Chile's Parque Nacional Alerce Costero (PNAC) and the Corporacion Nacional Forestal de Chile (CONAF), the agency that oversees Chile's national park system. RNSP and PNAC signed a formal Sister Park arrangement in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Carl Paschall, Sr., age 54, of Halethorpe, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit bank burglary and arson of property used in interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Shaniesta Kenay Banks, 22, of Chesapeake, Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Springdale, UT- Christopher H. Spencer, age 47 and a resident of San Jose, CA, died Sunday afternoon, Oct. 19, 2014, after taking a fall in Zion National Park. The cause of the incident is currently under investigation by the Washington County Sheriff's Office in cooperation with the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Judith A. Enck, Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA"), announced today that the United States has entered into a settlement agreement with a bankruptcy trust on behalf of GETTY PETROLEUM...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jerome Hudson, 44, of Lewiston, Maine, and formerly of Danvers, Massachusetts, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 18 years in prison and five years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of ammunition. Hudson pleaded guilty to the charge on June 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A man who supervised and directed an illegal drug distribution operation in Reno from his home in southern California, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 20, to 19½ years in federal prison and five years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden, for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Starting Monday, Oct. 27, a temporaryarea closure will be in effect for several trails within the Jenny Lake area of Grand Teton National Park. The temporary public closures are necessary to ensure public safety during construction activities involving helicopter-assisted transport of heavy material to trail locations on the west side of Jenny Lake. The public closure will last from October 27 through Oct. 30, and possibly longer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Tyron Burgess, age 36, of Manhattan, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Gregory M. Sleet to 42 months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. Mr. Burgess was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $129,985.02 to five different financial institutions.
