News from October 2014
By DOT News Wire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today published its first multi-state plan for a comprehensive, high-performing passenger rail network that will support rail planning in six Southwestern states over the next 35 years. This is the first multi-state rail planning effort FRA has embarked upon, making it a model for future regional planning efforts.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: BTS’ National Transportation Statistics Updated - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today updated National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data. NTS, updated quarterly, includes a wide range ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
Release: Washington, DC, Oct. 17, 2014 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today awarded $4 million in grants to establish four regional centers of excellence for research on nutrition education and obesity prevention, as well as a coordinating center, which will develop and test innovative nutrition education and obesity prevention interventions for underserved, low-income families.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that James Patrick Foreman (44, Jacksonville) has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with advertising for child pornography. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years, in...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park Fire Management Program will be conducting a prescribed burn beginning on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, weather and air quality conditions permitting. The 1,485 acre burn is located south of the East Fork of the Kaweah River, bordered by Mosquito Creek to the east and Avalanche Creek to the west.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Antonio Rennard Gilliam, age 43, of Baltimore, today to 135 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for a commercial robbery and for violating his supervised release from a previous bank robbery conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA-Edgar Carl Darling, III, 45, of Tallahassee, was sentenced to 200 months in prison based upon his guilty plea to a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nyerere Mitchell, 50, was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for a scheme in which he offered rides to people who had been drinking, talked them into letting him withdraw cash with their ATMS and pin numbers, and then secretly held onto their bank cards to generate more than $200,000 for himself, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Antonio Rennard Gilliam, age 43, of Baltimore, today to 135 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for a commercial robbery and for violating his supervised release from a previous bank robbery conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that United States Marshals have arrested Randy Mark Yager, aka “Mad" (age: 58), in Mexico. In 1997, Yager fled after he was indicted in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Yager was the ATF's Most Wanted Fugitive in 1997, and was placed on the United States Marshals 15 Most Wanted list in 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: A man who distributed child pornography was sentenced Oct. 16, 2014, to 35 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the recent unsealing of an indictment charging SHAWN JACCUZZO, age 43, of Houma, Louisiana, ANGELA WEAVER, a/k/a “Angela Adams," a/k/a “Angela Constant," age 43, and CHANCE WEAVER, age 30, both residing in Cypress, California. According to the indictment, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Kristin Nyunt was charged by information today with two counts of illegal wiretapping and the possession of illegal interception devices, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of criminal charges on Oct. 14, 2014 against Adolphus Butts, age 35, Timothy Smart, age 31, Ladu Tariq Kitching, age 28, and Cedrick Johnson, age 27, all of New York, New York. The Grand Jury in Scranton...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Robert Fitzgerald, age 35, of Baltimore, today to 130 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possession with intent to distribute heroin and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leslie R. Caldwell, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Michael E. Horowitz, the Justice Department Inspector General, announced that JOHANNES THALER, and RIZVE AHMED, a/k/a “Caesar,"...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. B An Essex County, N.J., man with a felony criminal record was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for carrying a loaded semi-automatic pistol, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, Washington Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu spoke to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington about her groundbreaking career in the law. Justice Yu is of Hispanic and Asian heritage and is the first openly gay member of the Washington State Supreme Court. Justice Yu’s father was an immigrant from China, her mother was from Mexico. She is also the first Latina Justice and Justice of Asian heritage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that LaTosha Bolton, age 48, of Omaha, Nebraska, was convicted on Oct. 16, 2014, after a jury found her guilty of theft of government property and mail fraud. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp presided over the trial that was held this week in Federal District Court. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 12, 2015. Ms. Bolton faces 20 years of imprisonment on the mail fraud conviction and 10 years imprisonment for the theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Two individuals from metro-Detroit were sentenced today to life in prison after having been convicted of violating various federal drug laws in a massive drug ring that trafficked hundreds of kilograms of heroin and cocaine, and thousands of pounds of marijuana in metro-Detroit, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
