News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon, II today sentenced Michael Glenn Glascock (39, Merritt Island) to life in federal prison for attempted online sexual enticement of a minor. He was also sentenced to a concurrent term of 30 years for sexual exploitation of a minor for the purpose of producing child pornography. Glascock pleaded guilty on Aug. 18, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Northampton County, Pennsylvania, man was arrested at his home this morning for allegedly downloading multiple images and videos of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Teslim Olarewaju Kiriji, 30, a Nigerian national and one of eighteen defendants indicted in a nine-count federal indictment filed in the Southern District of Mississippi, entered a guilty plea today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to conspiracy to commit laundering of monetary instruments, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Free Admission to the Boott Cotton Mills Museum.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: GRAMBLING, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley was the keynote speaker at Grambling State University’s Fourth Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Leadership Awards Luncheon held Thursday.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López today released the spending plan for $96.9 million provided to Reclamation in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015. The funds will go toward Western drought response and rural water projects, among other important activities.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement on the passing of Toledo, Ohio Mayor D. Michael Collins.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement in advance of the one-year anniversary of the 2014 Farm Bill signing. On February 4, 2014, the Senate passed the bipartisan bill 68-32, sending the legislation to President Obama for his signature. On February 7, 2014, President Obama signed the Farm Bill into law at Michigan State University.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah is seeking public nominations for five open positions on its Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC). The due date for applications is Mar. 20, 2015.The RAC positions open are in the following categories:One position in Category One -- Public land ranchers, representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on February 5, 2015, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of KHADRA ABDISAFAD HIRSI, 47, for stealing money in the form of child care subsidies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the State of Minnesota. The defendant pleaded guilty on February 4, 2015, before Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., to one count of Theft of Public Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, February 6, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Steven Vizcarrondo, 22, of Carbondale, Illinois, was indicted by a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Walt Verrill, who was a member of the Black Pistons Motorcycle Club, and Tony Parrott, who was an affiliate of the same motorcycle club, are the last two defendants in a long-term investigation of motorcycle gangs in North Georgia. Both have been sentenced for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: OREGON CITY, OR-- The McLoughlin House unit of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site will re-open to the public on Friday, February 13th and celebrate Oregon's 156th Birthday on Saturday, February 14th. Staff and docents will be on hand to answer questions and give guided tours of the McLoughlin House.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - John Harold McGill, the former principal of Mt. Carmel Elementary School in Douglas County, Ga., has been sentenced to ten years in prison for using emails and text messages to attempt to entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. McGill was arrested on March 2, 2014, and was convicted after a two-day trial in December 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Army soldier was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole today for murdering his five-year-old daughter, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni of the District of Hawaii.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alex Thomas Burns, 24, of Atlanta, Ga., and Riana Latel Cunningham, 22, of Stockebridge, Ga., entered not guilty pleas this morning to a criminal complaint charging them with methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Jim Finch, FBI Special Agent in Charge, announced that a criminal complaint was unsealed this afternoon charging ISRAA JAFAR ALI, 19, from Oklahoma City, and SAJJAD HUSSEIN AL FEHAIDAH...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Today National Park Service Search and Rescue crews expanded the search area for missing San Antonio man, Drake L. Kramer. Kramer, 21 was reported missing by family on Monday, February 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 6 months’ imprisonment with three years of supervised release on her conviction of bank embezzlement, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
