News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Andres Villarreal-Parades, 28, of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been convicted of possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Villarreal-Parades was set to begin trial tomorrow, but instead opted to plead guilty today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: In celebration of National Park Week and the upcoming National Park Service Centennial in 2016, the Obed Wild and Scenic River will be hosting a reception and gala book signing event on Friday, April 24. The event will start at 5:00 p.m. (EDT) at the Obed Visitor Center, located at 208 North Maiden Street...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva released the following statement on the Interior Department’s newly announced Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement proposed rule on blowout preventers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Tuscola, Ill., businessman is scheduled to appear for arraignment later this month on federal charges that he allegedly failed to pay more than $1.12 million in income tax for the 2008 and 2009 tax years. Last week, a grand jury returned the indictment charging Lorenzo Shane Stewart, owner of Ten Acres Excavating, Tuscola, with two counts of income tax evasion. Stewart’s arraignment has been scheduled on April 29, 2015, in Urbana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former United Parcel Service driver who was convicted of federal gun trafficking charges for stealing dozens of guns going through the shipping company’s Ontario hub and providing them to another man who sold the weapons on the street was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison for trafficking more than 12,000 pounds of marijuana over a period of two years, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) praised the bipartisan bill that would permanently repeal and replace the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), also known as the “Doc Fix", with an improved payment system based on legislation that was advanced by the Finance Committee in 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -- Superintendent Tracy Fortmann announced today that the National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site has opened two Requests for Expression of Interest (RFEIs) and is inviting submissions of concepts that would renovate and re-use two historic buildings in the national park's Vancouver Barracks complex. These concepts will be used to guide the Requests for Proposals for the buildings' re-use.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio - On just his second day on the job, a 28-year-old man working on a machine to forge parts lost a fingertip in a November 2014 incident that investigators say could have been prevented if his employer had trained the man to properly operate the upsetter machine and the machine had proper safety mechanisms. The man was unable to work for two weeks after the injury.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Rome, NY - National Park Week 2015 takes place from April 18 -26, and Fort Stanwix has plenty of opportunities for you.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A man who was found in possession of 6,000 images and 20 videos of child pornography, including child rape, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, lifetime supervised release, and ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution to various victims, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden, for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH -- A resident of Brooklyn, New York, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months of probation, which shall include 10 months of home detention with electronic monitoring, on his conviction of conspiracy and passing counterfeit United States Currency, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold hearings this week on the five year anniversary of President Obama’s health care law and various child nutrition programs in preparation for reauthorization of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation Nashville Field Office; David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Stephen Farris Underwood (46, Tampa) with coercion and enticement, transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and traveling to meet a minor with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Lamar Young, 28, of Lewiston, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 14 years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Three residents of Floydada, Texas, who were arrested on Friday by special agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), made their initial appearances in federal court this afternoon on drug distribution conspiracy charges outlined in a federal complaint that was just unsealed, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Three people have been sentenced for their involvement in a conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Brian Moskowitz, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Jose Heriberto Lopez, 42, Jose Arenas-Lucero, 51, and Miguel Angel Medina-Ortiz, 37, pleaded guilty in September, October and November 2014, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Champaign, Ill., real estate developer, Gene T. Hardwick, 72, is scheduled to appear for arraignment on April 27, 2015 in Urbana, following an indictment returned last week charging him with one count of bank fraud related to a $3.9 million loan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IOWA - Hassam Fayiz Abusharkh, 35, of Urbandale, Iowa, appeared in federal court on a criminal complaint alleging that Abusharkh robbed the Farmers and Merchants State Bank in St. Charles, Iowa, on March 25, 2015. Abusharkh made his initial appearance before United States Chief Magistrate Judge Celeste F. Bremer, who ordered that Abusharkh remain detained pending presentment of his case to a federal grand jury.
