News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 31-year-old Houston woman has been sentenced for bringing prohibited drugs into a federal prison in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Bryan H. Nishimura, 50, of Folsom, pleaded guilty today to unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) delivered the following opening statement for the full Committee hearing Aviation Security Challenged: Is TSA Ready for the Threats of Today?:
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -July 29, 2015. Caleb Kesler, Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x227. Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments to Host Two Volunteer Recruitment Fairs in August. Camp Verde, AZ - The National Park Service welcomes and encourages local area residents to learn...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - Robert Murphy, the Assistant Special Agent in (ASAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 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 a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he commissioned on U.S. programs to address the root causes of migration from Central America to the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DIMITRY BRAVERMAN, a former senior information systems engineer at a prominent national law firm, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for insider trading. Specifically, BRAVERMAN repeatedly used material...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Daniel R. Salter, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - During the second in a series of hearings to examine the Iran nuclear deal, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, rejected the Obama administration’s false choice between supporting the nuclear deal or supporting war, which was part of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Mario Deandre Jackson and Leon Scott have been indicted by a federal grand jury for robbery, kidnaping and firearms crimes relating to a home invasion in the Buckhead community on May 25, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Two dozen defendants are facing federal drug charges after a two-and-a-half-year investigation uncovered their roles in trafficking wholesale amounts of cocaine and heroin and distributing it in the Chicago area and Wisconsin.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that cranberry growers voted to continue their federal marketing order program. The marketing order applies to cranberries grown in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. The marketing order also applies to cranberries grown in Long Island, N.Y.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Defendant Must Also Pay One Victim $136,000 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Cornell Louis Robinson, age 44, of Washington, D.C., on charges related to the armed carjacking of a couple who were about to enter their vehicle to go to the hospital because the woman was in labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Dr. Nelson practiced medicine in Pelican Rapids, Minn., and Fargo, N.D.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Butler, Pa., was sentenced in federal court to 5 years imprisonment followed by 15 years supervised release, on his conviction of distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A dozen individuals were charged yesterday following a lengthy law enforcement investigation into a Taunton-based heroin distribution ring.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled the annual public meeting for Ruedi Reservoir Water Operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: BUTTE - Following a two-day federal trial in Montana, a jury convicted Donald “Ski" Johnson, 48, of Silver Spring, Maryland, of wire fraud. Johnson defrauded Big Brothers Big Sisters of Gallatin County, Montana, by misrepresenting himself as a Grammy-nominated artist soliciting funds for a children’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Pineville, Mo., man who is a registered sex offender was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography. Jeremy Wayne Law, 31, of Pineville, was...
