News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Ordered to pay $94,159 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: The public will be able to access wildfire related information in Idaho from a single website starting May 1st. The website,
By State Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s address to a joint meeting of Congress.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29 - Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today announced a bipartisan, full committee working group to identify ways to improve electronic health records (EHRs).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -- Lake Mead National Recreation Area park rangers will be connecting kids with science, technology and art May 1 and 2 at First Friday and the Giant Science & Technology Expo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jacob Alan Seiger, age 24, of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced today for distribution of heroin. United States District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Seiger to a 156 month term of imprisonment, to be followed by a three year term of court supervision upon release from Federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Hatch. Let me begin my remarks by saying that the Finance Committee today is marking up legislation that’s useful, but very narrowly targeted. This bill will help make some of the most basic costs of a college education more affordable for a lot of students in Oregon and elsewhere, but mainly for kids from families who’ve been fortunate enough to put money away into 529 savings plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: James J. Paterson, 49, of Lorain, was charged with receiving and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: In El Paso, 44-year-old Albert Hibbert was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for receipt of child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Vincente Osorio, 61, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced today for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine and attempt to possess with intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "The Homeland Security Department’s Budget Submission for Fiscal Year 2016." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Jon Paul Clements, 33, of Charleston, West Virginia, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for selling heroin. Clements pled guilty in October of 2014 to four counts of distributing heroin in the Charleston area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Several South Texas men and one from Houston have been arrested on charges including a marijuana trafficking conspiracy and laundering monetary instruments during an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) dubbed “Operation Black Mask," announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. (Houston Division) and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DERRICK HOLLOWAY, age 31, of Marrero, was charged in a two-count Bill of Information with unauthorized recording of a motion picture and criminal infringement of a copyright.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Alexander J. Batson, 22, of Bangor, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison to two years of probation and fined $1,000 for possessing marijuana. Batson pleaded guilty to the charge on February 6, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Two individuals stopped by law enforcement officers in Utah following an attempt to locate a stolen truck request from law enforcement authorities in Multnomah County, Oregon, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Utah Wednesday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Mark Murray of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: This morning, 44-year-old Alexandro Silva of El Paso pleaded guilty to receipt and distribution of more than 93,000 images of child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LATASHA N. ANDERS, age 34, and ARNOLD WILLIAMS, age 33, residents of New Orleans, each pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to fraudulent applications they made or caused to be made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance during the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Timothy Murphy, 50, of Amherst, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years and a $250,000 fine.
