News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ronald Boike (50, Orange Park) has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Boike faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bobby Concho, 53, was sentenced this morning to 40 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his conviction on assault and domestic assault by a habitual offender charges. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Chief Timothy Trimble of the Zuni Pueblo Tribal Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a mother and son in northwest Missouri and a Kansas City, Mo., man have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for illegally possessing firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) Superintendent Dusty Shultz announced that the National Park Service (NPS) is extending the comment period on the proposed Bay to Bay Trail an additional 30-days to Oct. 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Tamara Parnell To Spend Four Months In Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. WASHINGTON - The Litigation Support Team for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas was recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 30th annual Director’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Brian Hayden Allen, 42, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Sept. 11, 2014, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Allen was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 114 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Acting Superintendent Kym Hall announces that on Monday, September 15 (at midnight) ORV routes in Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) will reopen to night driving where no turtle nests remain or to the first posted closure in that route.The Seashore's Off-Road Vehicle special regulation states...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: The four men account for 12 prior felony convictions and represent the worst-of-the-worst.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. WASHINGTON - Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Quinn of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas was one of 243 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - Keith A. Arrick Sr., 47, of Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. His son, Keith A. Arrick Jr., 21, of Columbus, Ohio pleaded guilty in July to sex trafficking of children.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement commemorating the thirteenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. WASHINGTON - Assistant U.S. Attorney John B. Ross of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas was one of 243 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA)...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) criticized the Obama Administration for attempting to politicize the recent uptick in corporate inversions and called for bipartisan congressional talks to continue.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Scott Arnam Wiley, 46, of Douglas County, Oregon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken to a 10-year prison term for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Following his release from prison, Wiley will be on supervised release for five years.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following statements after the House passed H.R. 3522, the Employee Health Care Protection Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-Springfield) introduced legislation that would impose trade sanctions on countries that facilitate ivory trafficking. Ivory from elephant tusks contributes billions to the global illegal wildlife trade and funds organized crime and terrorist organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jeremy Heath Higgins, 28, a resident of Quinton, Alabama, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala to two counts of federal civil rights violations, announced the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - The United States has formally settled part of, and joined in part of, a lawsuit brought by a whistle-blower that alleges a Northeast Florida based sleep clinic intentionally billed the government for millions of dollars of services that were not medically necessary, and, in some...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Chester County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of sex trafficking of a child, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
