News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Israel Mireles-Rivera, 33, a Mexican national unlawfully in the United States and residing in Hagerman, N.M., pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jonathan Blades, 30, of Suitland, Md., was found guilty by a jury today of assault with intent to kill while armed and other offenses stemming from a shooting outside a night club in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina Ripley Rand announced today that a former United States Postal Service employee has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly (1) committing Social Security fraud, (2) committing identity theft, and (3) committing the unauthorized use of an access device to obtain something of value.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office is accepting public comments on an Environmental Impact Statement for a Master Development Plan within the Bull Mountain Unit near Paonia, Colo. The proposed project includes up to 146 natural gas wells, four water disposal wells and the construction of associated access roads and pipelines for leases operated by SG Interests I, LTD.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: In Midland today, U.S. District Judge Robert A. Junell sentenced 50-year-old former Denver City (TX) councilman Joe Anthony Kay to five years in federal prison for his role in a Midland-based heroin and methamphetamine distribution ring, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Midland Police Chief Price Robinson and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park will be joining along with other national park units across the country to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a fee-free entry into the park on Monday, January 19.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Sedro-Woolley, WA - State Route 20 beyond the closed vehicle gate at Ross Dam Trailhead (MP 134) is temporarily closed to foot traffic and recreational activities. Heavy rains caused rock slides that are now blocking the road. Boulders, debris, and hazard trees will be removed from the road bed and loose...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Jayesh Dahyabhai Patel, 49, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced on Jan. 15, 2015, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 42 months in federal prison. Patel was also ordered to pay restitution of $2,806,438.20 to First Community Bank and serve five years of supervised release upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Jan. 15, 2015, defendant Javier Carrillo was arrested upon his arrival to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport from the Dominican Republic. Carrillo supplied multi-kilogram loads of cocaine to the group of 10 defendants indicted on July 16, 2014, operation Voodoo Sam...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: In a ceremony on January 6, 2015, in Portland, Oregon, Crater Lake Superintendent Craig Ackerman accepted the Oregon Governor's Office of Film and Television Film Advocate Award on behalf of all staff for their contributions to advancing the film and television industry in the state.The award specifically...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, announce that Providencia...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: FRANKFORT, KY - Today, a federal jury convicted a California man of running a bogus oil production enterprise in Kentucky that defrauded investors, nationwide, out of millions of dollars.
By State Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the imprisonment of antislavery activist Biram Dah Abeid in Mauritania...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: December was another warmer-than-normal month in Kenai Fjords National Park and surrounding areas. As recorded at the Seward airport, the monthly average was 5.8 degrees F above normal, the same temperature departure that was recorded in November. Daily high temperatures were above freezing every day...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of January 19. The committee will continue its work to ensure open Internet protections for consumers, discuss solutions to #KeepthePromise and protect seniors’ access to Medicare physicians, and consider the next steps for coal ash regulation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing effort to achieve bipartisan consensus, leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today unveiled draft legislation to provide clear rules of the road for open and unfettered access to the Internet.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement about findings released today by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showing that 2014 was the hottest year on record globally in 134 years of record keeping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Roger Paul Villeneuve, 72, of Coos Bay, Oregon was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, to thirteen months in prison after pleading guilty to structuring a currency transaction. Villeneuve was given 45 days to self-surrender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Box Elder, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Larceny.
