News from January 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: There are at least four discrete fires burning in or near Buffalo National River as of1 pm,Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. The largest, the Jackson Ridge fire in the Lower Buffalo Wilderness was brought under 100% containment at 1 pm today with a total of 800 acres burned at this time. Eight National Park Service and three United States Forest Service fire fighters remain on scene.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The Justice Department announced today that, jointly with the city of Albuquerque, it is notifying the District Court of the selection of Dr. James R. Ginger - a nationally recognized expert on police reform and organizational change - as the independent monitor of the settlement agreement...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: It’s not every day you can represent your country by working at an embassy abroad or help protect your country’s vice president, unless of course, you work for the Secret Service. These are opportunities that some can only dream of, but for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent, these dreams became a reality.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Upper Buffalo River Rangers received a report of a woman with an injury three miles downstream from Steel Creek on the Old River Trail. Rangers responded from Pruitt with the Search and Rescue trailer. At Steel Creek a horseback rider who was a member of the injured person's party was located and it...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Veteran Construction Associates LLC (Veteran Construction), a construction company headquartered in Burlington, New Jersey, will pay $1.3 million to resolve allegations that it improperly billed the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on government contracts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wheeling, West Virginia, has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation and restitution on her conviction of conspiracy to pass counterfeit United States currency, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Nicholas Darwin Yancey (30, Melbourne) to 10 years in federal prison for attempted child enticement. The Court also ordered him to forfeit two cellphones and a computer that he had used to commit the offenses. Yancey pleaded guilty on Oct. 2, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined a growth-oriented committee agenda aimed at achieving a healthy economy by pursuing bipartisan, job-creating initiatives such as reforming the tax code and enacting trade promotion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Robert Joseph Butler, age 27, of Clayton, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for each count of Transporting a Minor in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Former Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections (BOC) officer Marcel Scotland pleaded guilty Friday in District Court on St. Croix to providing prison contraband, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent-in-Charge Vito S. Guarino.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: (BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Alyssa Jelliffe, 21, and Christopher Fogler, 29, both of West Haven, have been charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID J. BERTNAGEL, 41, of Thomaston, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE, CA-Paul Lawrence Vella was sentenced on Jan. 15, 2015, to 59 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, and Tatum King, acting special agent in charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Francisco.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tonight, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) highlighted the President’s call for Congress to continue its work on strengthening our nation’s cyber security systems...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: An exciting new arts grant initiative has been announced that jointly celebrates the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts and the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service. The initiative, called "Imagine Your Parks," unites the mission of the two agencies to promote and protect the nation's natural and cultural treasures. Guidelines and step-by-step instructions can be found at the NEA's Art Works website.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 20, 2015, Ryan Maurice Thunderhawk, 24, Cannonball, N.D., was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve six years in prison for assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Thunderhawk was also ordered to serve three years supervised release and pay a $200 special assessment to the Crime Victims Fund.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, released the following statement in reaction to the President’s reaffirmed commitment to countering terrorism at home and abroad...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jose R. Ramos, 36, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Over $80 million in counterfeit U.S. currency passed or seized globally.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Defendant Arrested after Fleeing from Police on Multiple Occasions.
