News from December 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: James R. Harris, president, J.R. Harris and Co. (Denver, Colo.), has been appointed by Willie E. May, under secretary of commerce for standards and technology and director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to serve a two-year term on the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Advisory Committee.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today urged National Park Service (NPS) officials to look for innovative ways to fund the nation’s park systems on the 100th anniversary of the agency and to take steps to meet the evolving needs of the next generation of visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sammie Joe Peralta, 39, of Artesia, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Peralta will be on supervised release for four years after completing his term of incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A former volunteer for New Visions Community Church has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Mark Dawson, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Antonio and Webb County Sherriff Martin Cuellar. Fidel Perales-Castillo, 44, a Mexican citizen residing in Laredo, pleaded guilty April 23, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote this week to the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), R. Gil Kerlikowske, concerning the next border patrol chief.
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today condemned the lack of a U.S. response to repeated Iranian ballistic missile tests that violate existing U.N. Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR). U.S. officials yesterday confirmed in media reports that Iran conducted an illicit ballistic missile test on Nov. 21, which represents the second such launch since the Iran nuclear agreement was reached in July.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: A Youngstown man was arrested today to face charges that he illegally possessed a firearm, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: "#1 Tax Lady" found guilty of filing multiple phony tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Imposition of Fifteen Year Prison Sentence; Case Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Life in prison for man who murdered his wife in the Rockies.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Front Range Fire Management Unit will be conducting pile burns in Phantom Canyon starting this week. The piles consist of accumulated debris from the flooding earlier this year and will help reduce impacts from future flooding events.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered remarks on the Senate floor on provisions to improve and expand access to early childhood education in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in support of H.R. 158 - the Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act, legislation which passed the House of Representatives today...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WAYNE WILLIAMS, age 37, of River Ridge, pled guilty today a two-count Bill of Information charging him with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Ohio Man Indicted for Soliciting the Murder of Members of the U.S. Military.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced two Joplin, Mo., residents were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in separate but related cases, of possessing stolen mail and passing a forged check.
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following floor remarks in support of the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 (H.R. 3766 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that a jury convicted AKIN SEAN EL PRECISE BEY, of Knightdale, North Carolina, and GEORGE LINCOLN STANLEY IV, of Durham, North Carolina of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and kidnapping. AKIN SEAN EL PRECISE BEY was also convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The jury returned its verdict following a trial in federal court before Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 42-year-old Laredo man has been ordered to serve the maximum sentence in federal prison following his conviction of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Mark Dawson, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Antonio and Webb County Sherriff Martin Cuellar. Oscar Herrera III, 42, pleaded guilty to the charge in March 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper County, Mo., and for illegally possessing a firearm.
