News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 34-year-old Stroudsburg area man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Three Mexican citizens are in federal custody following their arrest last Friday, September 5, 2014, in McAllen, Texas, on federal charges stemming from the murder of a Southlake, Texas, man in May 2013. The announcement was made this afternoon at a press conference, held at Southlake’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Scheme Nets Defendant And Coconspirators More Than $16 Million In U.S. Treasury Checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Kleppe Houston, of Fenton, Michigan, was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with five counts of filing false tax returns, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE -- The North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) Science Technical Advisory Panel will meet Sept. 23-24 in Anchorage at the Campbell Creek Science Center, 5600 Science Center Drive. The meetings will begin at 9 a.m. each day, with public comment scheduled for 3-4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Edward Lucero, 24, entered a guilty plea this morning to an assault charge arising out of the drive-by shooting of an Acoma Pueblo home in Dec. 2012. Lucero’s three co-defendants previously entered guilty pleas to crimes arising out of that drive-by-shooting.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: "My fire was in all its glory about midnight…I had nothing to do but look and listen and join the trees in their hymns and prayers." -John Muir, Travels in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ricky Wallace, a/k/a Justice, 33, of Pawtucket, was ordered detained on sex trafficking charges today by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan, for allegedly trafficking a 17-year-old girl from the Boston area to Rhode Island for the purposes of commercial sexual...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse by Force and Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester has returned a 10-count, third superseding indictment, which includes a charge for murder in relation to and in furtherance of a Rochester area drug distribution conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Starting today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada state office will be posting entries in the 2014 photo contest to www.facebook.com/BLMNevada. Over two hundred photos were submitted between June 1 and August 31 for the BLM's third annual photo contest, which celebrates 150 years of Nevada's...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia -Scientists, historians and Andersonville National Historic Site managers have taken a long look at the natural, cultural and historic resources in their care and summarized their findings in a new "State of the Park" report released this week.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., September 9, 2014 - An investigative entitled “Ethics Under Review: An Oversight Investigation into the Department of the Interior’s Ethics Program and How Recusals are Managed for Senior Officials" was released today by the House Natural Resources Committee’s majority oversight staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that six new Assistant United States Attorneys were sworn into office on September 8, 2014 by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, Chief United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a complaint charging DERRICK LYNCH, 51, and MARVIN SPENCER, 51, both of St. Paul, Minnesota, with armed robbery in violation of the Hobbs Act and using, carrying and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. The defendants...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Springdale, Utah-Water levels on the Virgin River in Zion National Park rose from 174 cubic feet per second (cfs) to 4,790 cfs in a matter of hours today. This was the 7th highest river level in more than one hundred years. Flooding and debris on both the Scenic Drive and the Zion - Mount Carmel Highway forced the park to close at 1:00 P.M. Visitors up Zion Canyon, except those staying at the lodge, were evacuated.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Charles Pelts, who was already a registered sex offender, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for receipt of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist Joyce Loper has been named the agency's Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of the Year for 2014 for her work to develop biological control of plant diseases.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announce today that U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke re-sentenced Jose Padilla to serve 21 years in prison for his 2007 conviction for conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim individuals in a foreign country; conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists; and providing material support to terrorists.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Antonio Yazzie, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Lukachukai, Ariz., pleaded guilty this morning to an assault with a dangerous weapon charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
