News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Cristina Lara, 44, has entered a guilty plea to one count of using the telephone to threaten to blow up the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) office in Laredo, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Mikal X. Wilde was sentenced today to life in prison plus 35 years for murder and related drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. The charges stemmed from the defendant’s murder of Mario Roberto Juarez-Madrid and the shooting of Pedro Fernando Lopez-Paz on Aug. 25, 2010, on the defendant’s marijuana farm in Humboldt County, California.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Shoreline Foundation Inc. Inspection site: 2781 SW 56th Avenue, Pembroke Park, Florida 33023. Date inspection initiated: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated the Dec. 18, 2014, inspection after receiving a complaint alleging workplace hazards. Inspection findings: ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Terrence P. Young, 37, of Dayton, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of delay or destruction of mail, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1703(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Thursday, June 4, 2015. Eight lawyers and two paralegals of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan were recognized by the Department of Justice today at the 31st Director's Awards Ceremony in Washington...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva released the following statement on the nomination of Mary Kendall as Inspector General of the Interior Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a superseding indictment charging 11 individuals with steroid and prescription pill distribution offenses. Eight of the individuals charged in the superseding indictment were arrested in April, and three individuals were arrested this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Jesse Clyde Lee, 68, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced on June 4, 2015, to serve 78 months in prison by the Honorable Thomas Varlan, Chief U.S. District Court Judge. Lee pleaded guilty in November 2014 to an information charging him with arson of a building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that this afternoon, a jury returned a guilty verdict against NEMESSIS BATES for his participation in the November 2010 murder of Christopher “Tiger" Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose Rios, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to federal carjacking and firearms charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Rios will be sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Avery Terry, age 23, of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to commercial robbery, using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and accessory after the fact to a second robbery resulting in death.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted the importance of allowing American crude oil to compete in the global marketplace and said that lifting the ban on oil exports was a “crucial issue" at the intersection of national security and energy policy.
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding language in the FY2016 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill that restricts funding for the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FAST-C) unless that facility is specifically authorized by the Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Returns “U.S. negotiators to the bargaining table," secures high-standard trade agreements that“would benefit Americans" and promotes “good-paying, high-quality American jobs" is how thought leaders and lawmakers in Washington are describing the Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA 2015), bipartisan legislation to renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Timothy Reid Dunbar, Automated Litigation Support Specialist, of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of North Carolina, was one of the members of the Department of Justice recognized by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates, and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 31st Director’s Awards Ceremony today in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tiana Williams, 25, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to two years in federal prison for conspiring to intimidate a witness in connection with a ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-A Grand Canyon National Park search and rescue mission continues for Morgan Heimer of Cody, WY who went missing June 2 at River Mile 213 on the Colorado River.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Four people involved in the operation of Advanced Family Medical Center and Watkins-Tsai Imaging in Coal Grove, Ohio were sentenced today for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They improperly charged government insurance programs for medically unnecessary procedures, most of which were related to the overuse of a CT scan machine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shannon Jerome Hinton, 25, of Cleveland, Ohio, was convicted of selling heroin near a Hancock County, West Virginia playground in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
