News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Texan pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell methamphetamine in the Winn Parish area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced the conclusion of Operation Bad Mussels - with the sentencing of the remaining defendants indicted for their participation in one of the largest steroid enforcement investigations in Arizona. During the investigation, DEA’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Aaron Winnier, age 33, of Wapato, Washington, was sentenced for possessing a stolen firearm. Senior United States District Court Judge Wm. Fremming Nielsen sentenced Winnier to a ten-year...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Victor D. Rome, 39, from the Pensacola area, was sentenced in federal court today on drug trafficking conspiracy charges. Rome was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge M. Casey Rodgers to 280 months’ imprisonment and 10 years of supervision upon his release. The sentence was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - Victor D. Rome, 39, from the Pensacola area, was sentenced in federal court today on drug trafficking conspiracy charges. Rome was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge M. Casey Rodgers to 280 months’ imprisonment and 10 years of supervision upon his release.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: TORONTO, Canada - A Canadian national was arrested Jan. 5 in Toronto and charged with the creation, possession and distribution of child pornography. The arrest resulted from a joint investigation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Attaché Office in Toronto, the Toronto Police Service’s Child Exploitation Section and the Barrie Police Service’s Internet Child Exploitation Section.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 12, 2015, Ronald Keith Edwards Gibbons, 28, Williston, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on two counts of possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. Judge Hovland sentenced Gibbons to serve seven ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger said: “I look forward to participating in the White House Summit on February 18 with Twin Cities law enforcement and community leaders and stakeholders, my colleagues from the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Boston and Los Angeles, and CVE leaders from around the world.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 PARIS — Today, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas attended an International Ministerial meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder in Paris convened by French Minister of Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, to discuss a range of ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) pushed back on a decision by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to open the United States border to Mexican-domiciled trucking companies.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announced today that it will move its Eastern States office in Springfield, VA to 20 M Street, SE, Washington, DC. The current Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) office at 7450 Boston Blvd in Springfield will be closed beginning Jan. 14, 2015 and will reopen...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2015
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY- The family farm has been an American ideal of economic production for the better part of two centuries. Indeed, today's alternative agricultural movement seeks to reinstate the family farm model in pursuit of both community sustenance, and farmer autonomy and independence. Come discover the role gender has played on American farms.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2015
News Release: Statement of. The Honorable Peter DeFazio. H.R. 3, the Keystone XL Pipeline Act. January 9, 2015. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the bill.Here we go again. For the tenth time in the last four years, we will vote on short-circuiting the review process for the Keystone XL pipeline, a pipeline that is...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 10, 2015
News Release: Op-Ed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry , U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew Opinion Editorial, El Diario, Política de Obama sobre Cuba mira hacia el futuro La decisión del Presidente Obama de comenzar a normalizar relaciones con Cuba beneficiará ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 10, 2015
News Release: Op-Ed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry , U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew Opinion Editorial, El Diario, Política de Obama sobre Cuba mira hacia el futuro La decisión del Presidente Obama de comenzar a normalizar relaciones con Cuba beneficiará ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2015
News Release: Devils Tower National Monument will be joining over 400 national park units across the country in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with free entry into the park on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and long-time advocate of anti-human trafficking efforts, issued the following statement in advance of Human Trafficking Awareness Day, which will be commemorated on Sunday, January 11...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Jan. 11, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will travel to Paris to attend an International Ministerial meeting, convened by French Minister of Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, to discuss a range of shared security-related ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, January 9, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement on the retirement of Deputy Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Dr. Janey Thornton: "Janey has worked with great knowledge and passion. She has throughout her distinguished career always, ...
