News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Hector David Lopez-Banuelos was sentenced yesterday to 181 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge Tatum King.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The upcoming President's Day weekend means free entry to Grand Teton National Park. Entrance fees will be waived from Saturday, February 14 through Monday, February 16 at nearly 400 national park units across the country. This will also be a perfect weekend to experience and enjoy a variety of winter...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Susan Marr, age 39, of Winnebago, Nebraska, was sentenced for her convictions in two separate cases. In the first case, Marr was convicted of knowingly stealing funds from the Social Security Administration. In the second case, Marr was convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Andrey C. Cook, 34, and Richard J. Beverly II, 25, both of Pensacola, were sentenced to federal prison today by United States Senior District Court Judge Lacey Collier on charges of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. The sentence was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Charleston, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Feb. 10, 2015 15-008. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Bears Starting To Emerge From Dens In Yellowstone. Blame...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 9, 2015, Norman George Begay, Jr., 31, of Shonto, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to seven years’ imprisonment for stabbing his victim, resulting in serious bodily injuries. Begay pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2014, to assault resulting in serious bodily injury, occurring on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two brothers in Joplin, Mo., and Mountain Grove, Mo., and two employees have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to sell more than $5.6 million worth of spent cooking oil - stolen from restaurants across five states - to a recycling facility in Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 9, 2015, Steven Scott Pearce, 57, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 33 months of imprisonment for preparing false tax refund claims while incarcerated at the Maricopa County Jail. Pearce pleaded guilty on Oct. 7, 2014, to conspiracy to file false claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 10 St. Joseph, Mo., residents have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JULIO LARA TRINIDAD, 28, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to federal offenses...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today on lessons learned from the Tax Reform Act of 1986, said any successful effort to reform the tax code must be on the basis of principled bipartisanship that addresses the needs of the American middle class and makes the U.S. more competitive in the global economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, February 9, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. On February 6, 2015, Adam M. Calvert, 30, Herrin, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to distribute heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, February 9, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. On February 6, 2015, Lori A. Helmer, 49, of Pinckneyville, Illinois, was sentenced on a methamphetamine offense, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning (TCWP) and Obed Wild and Scenic River will be hosting the annual Cumberland Trail work day on Saturday, February 21. Volunteers should meet at Rock Creek Campground at 10:00 a.m. (EST). Trail maintenance will be performed on the 2.5-mile section of the Cumberland...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: USDA Targets Citrus Greening with Promising Tools and Long Term Solutions WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $30 million in funding today for 22 projects to help citrus producers combat Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening, a devastating citrus disease ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Cascades, Sierra Nevada Extremely Dry WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2015 - An unusually warm, dry January slowed snowpack accumulation in much of the West, according to data from the second 2015 forecast by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Water and Climate Center (NWCC). California, Arizona and New Mexico, as well as parts of Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Nevada, remain in prolonged drought.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Prairie View, Texas, Feb. 9, 2015 – USDA's Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Joe Leonard today announced the availability of more than $18 million to strengthen the research, teaching and extension capabilities at 19 historically black land-grant colleges and universities in an effort to recruit and train students for careers in agriculture. Leonard made the announcement today during a visit to Prairie View A&M University.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: The general manager of a Southern California ambulance company was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison for his role in a $5.5 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program.
