News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAQUAN PRICE, 24, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i -Everyone is invited to Find Your Park and participate in the upcoming Kahuku events and hikes at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, offered April through June 2015. Kahuku is open to the public every Saturday and Sunday of the month, and all events are free. You can explore on your own, or join these upcoming programs.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) has completed the Environmental Assessment for the Strentzel-Muir Gravesite in Martinez, California. The Public Comment Period will extend from Monday April 20 through Monday June 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Retired Marine Charged with Murdering His Girlfriend, Dismembering Her Body, and Dumping Her Remains in the Panamanian Jungle.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Doodnath Ramnath, a/k/a “Robert Kramer," 46, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Oct. 20, 2014, Ramnath, an alien, and native and citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about March 10, 2010.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Boustany and Reichert Applaud Senate Passage of ‘Doc Fix’ Bill Extending MIECHV Programs through FY 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An Acton woman pleaded guilty today to distributing 25B-NBOMe, a synthetic hallucinogen, also known as “N-Bomb" that is gaining popularity among young people.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two members of a drug-trafficking organization that distributed at least 10 kilograms of methamphetamine in the Independence, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo., area have been sentenced in federal court.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the announcement the committee will meet next week to continue its discussion of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Kenilworth, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for his role in the affairs of the Genovese organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Genovese family"), including engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity by extorting Christmastime tribute payments from...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Joseph Smith was sentenced April 17, 2015, in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Production of Child Pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), and Possession of Child Pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B). Chief United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence sentenced Smith to 240 months imprisonment and supervised release for life.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT GENTILE, 78, of Manchester, was arrested today and charged by federal criminal complaint with firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was sentenced today for possessing at least 600 images and 200 videos of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Almundo Cruz Singer, 27, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Tseyatoh, N.M., pled guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Melvin Barber Bridgers, III (34, Tarpon Springs, formerly of Greenville, North Carolina) to 40 years in federal prison for the production, receipt, and distribution of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the cellular telephones and computers that he had used to commit the offenses. Bridgers pleaded guilty on Dec. 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT GENTILE, 78, of Manchester, was arrested today and charged by federal criminal complaint with firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank H. Sherman, who handled the case, stated that between January 2003 and February 2007, the defendant participated in a criminal scheme with others to obtain from a medical doctor prescriptions for oxycodone, a controlled substance, by representing to the medical doctor that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Gary Gibson was sentenced today in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for failure to register as a sex offender, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a). United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence sentenced Gibson to 22 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: PLANO, TX - Kris Wilson Gentz, 59, has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to embezzle over $2.5 million from the Plano Independent School District, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Right now, the United States is engaged in two major trade negotiations with Asia and Europe - the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP). American workers need fair access to those markets. And, The Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 will help the United States bring home these trade pacts to benefit American workers, farmers, ranchers and job creators.
