News from September 2014
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
Release: Richmond, VA, Sept. 29, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is making up to $31.5 million in funding available to help participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program more easily afford healthy foods like fruits and vegetables. Secretary Vilsack made the announcement with Virginia First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe in Richmond.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew David Graves pleaded guilty on Sept. 26, 2014, to manufacturing and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, conspiracy to do so, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: Jeff Boyd Levenderis, age 58, of Akron, was sentenced to six years in prison for possessing the biological toxin ricin for use as a weapon, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS-The Montana United States Attorney's Office announces that the first federal felony strangulation jury conviction has occurred in Great Falls, Montana. A jury of Montana citizens convicted Jordan James Lamott on Sept. 16, 2014, of strangling his girlfriend three times, after which she...
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the student-led democratic protests in Hong Kong...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, before Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox, david wayne luther, 63, of Surf City, North Carolina, entered a guilty plea to violating the Clean Water Act and the Rivers and Harbors Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: OXFORD: Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and Johnnie Sharp, Acting, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that Jimmie Johnson, age 31, former Tutwiler, Mississippi, Police Officer and former Chief of Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: Eric Mathe 42, of North Bay Village, Florida and Ashif Jiwa 55, of Miami, Florida were charged in by indictment, unsealed today, with wire fraud in an investment scheme, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that between February 2009 and February 2010, Mathe and...
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: Newark, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the inauguration in Afghanistan of President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah:
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney also welcomes selection of new Huntington police chief.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Robert Johnson, age 33, of Perry Hall, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, related to a scheme to defraud the City of Baltimore through the reissuance of fraudulent checks for pay and benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: Defendant Possessed More Than 14,000 Images Of Child Rape And Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) announced today that a 42-year-old native and citizen of Mexico has been charged with improper entry into the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: Harrison, AR -Not only does October indicate the changing of the seasons in Arkansas it also marks the unofficial start to the fall wildland fire season. Adequate rainfall and below average temperatures over the summer have created a large amount of fine grass fuels that will be available for wildland...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: Butte-A 48-year-old Minot, North Dakota man who trafficked over 34 pounds in and around Montana was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. United States District Court Sam Haddon sentenced Lloyd Nickle to 360 months in prison, followed by a term of 5 years supervised release. A federal jury made up...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: David A. Billington, 51, formerly of Nashville and currently residing in Murray, Kentucky, was sentenced on Sept. 22, 2014, to serve 51 months in prison for bank fraud and filing false tax returns, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Billington was also ordered to pay restitution and the taxes that he owed, when released from prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: BOGOTA, Colombia - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents from the HSI Colombia Attaché Office hosted a one-week law enforcement training on combatting the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months incarceration, three years supervised release and 500 hours of community service on his conviction of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Lawrenceville, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for distributing oxycodone-based prescription pills from a steakhouse in Trenton, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Tamer Shaher Foqahaa, a resident of Mobile, Alabama, entered a guilty plea today before Chief United States District Court Judge William Steele to a one count Information charging a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
