News from October 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Middletown, Conn. man appeared today in federal court on charges related to a scheme to defraud the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut of millions of dollars in tobacco tax revenue.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on news that President Obama has appointed Ron Klain as his Ebola response coordinator...

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, welcomed the President’s latest Executive Order to better safeguard consumers’ financial security and the creation of the Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown-bag luncheon presentation by Glacier National Park Archivist Deirdre Shaw on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the park’s community building in West Glacier.
By State Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding the Administration’s announcement that in early 2015 the Department of Homeland Security will expand the legal process for migration from Haiti for those separated from their families.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection (“USPIS"), and James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (“DEA"), New York Division, announced today that Yinmi Rodriguez, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has indicted Rudy Rampertab, 45, and Suraj Patel, 34, of Ocoee, Fla. for their alleged connection with a $3.5 million shipping and packaging contract fraud scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Unites States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Jennings man was sentenced Thursday to 188 months in prison for downloading hundreds of movies of child pornography to his computer and other electronic devices.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Eleven of the 13 Defendants Face the Death Penalty or Mandatory Life in Prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Russellville, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms and methamphetamine.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: DETROIT - 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Damon Graham Sentenced Today To 15 ½ Years In Federal Prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: EAGLE PASS, Texas) - Federal, state and local law enforcement have arrested 24 individuals, including 35-year-old alleged ringleader George Alamillo of San Antonio, and charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the Crystal City, La Pryor, Carrizo Springs and San Antonio areas announced Drug Enforcement...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Oct. 17, 2014, William Moore, a thirty year old East St. Louis man, pled guilty in Federal District Court, in East St. Louis, to Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Willie L. Carroll, Jr., a 50-year old, Belleville, Illinois, man was sentenced on Oct. 17, 2014, in federal district court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for failure to register as...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Patchogue, New York -Fire Island National Seashore participated in the inaugural Long Island Century Bat Survey. Events took place in August and October and included public education programs and citizen science surveys on Fire Island and Long Island. Recent declines in bat populations have spurred conservation efforts across the country, including the first ever National Bat Week, scheduled for October 26 through November 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - 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: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Amber Dawn Adams, 34, of Fayetteville, Illinois, was sentenced today on an indictment...

By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: On Saturday, Oct. 25, park rangers at Shiloh National Military Park will present living history demonstrations about rural life in the 1860s. The living history program will take place at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm at the historic William Manse George cabin located at Tour Stop #16 on Shiloh Battlefield.