News from June 2015
By DOT News Wire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are jointly proposing standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles that would improve fuel efficiency and cut carbon pollution to reduce the impacts of climate change, while bolstering energy security and spurring manufacturing innovation.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: FAA and the European Union Plan to Extend and Expand Cooperative Work Toward Seamless Air Traffic Services for Aircraft Flying Between the U.S. and Europe. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta and the European Commission’s Director General for Mobility and Transport, Mr. Joao Aguiar Machado, signed a Letter ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of Robert L. Brown (32, Clermont) on a criminal complaint charging him with receipt of a bribe by a public official. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in federal prison. Brown was arrested late yesterday, and he has...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Silvestre Rivera, age 57, an inmate at ADX in Florence, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve life in prison for the murder of Manuel Torrez. The life sentence was mandatory based on his First Degree Murder conviction. Rivera, and co-defendant Richard Santiago, murdered fellow inmate Torrez on April 21, 2005 while the three were exercising in the recreation area that is part of the ADX’s general population unit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Richard Michael Colbert, 54, of Pensacola Beach, was charged by a federal grand jury with 15 felony counts, including one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and/or mail fraud affecting a financial institution, four counts of false statement to a federally insured financial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: A Benld physician was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, for use of a suspended or revoked DEA registration number when prescribing a controlled substance and for making false statements or material omissions from a DEA registration application, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Manassas man, a retired Army Sergeant Major, was working as a civilian contracting official for the Army at the Pentagon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Very high fire danger exists in Denali National Park and Preserve due to a lack of recent precipitation, high winds and hot, dry weather. Park officials have determined that it is necessary to prohibit the use of all open fires and activities, which unduly increase the fire danger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Two California residents were indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, for methamphetamine-related charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH DESMARET was sentenced yesterday in White Plains federal court to three years in prison for his participation in a scheme in which he accepted over $10,000 in cash bribes in exchange for his votes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Joshua James Metoxen was sentenced to five years in prison (to be served consecutive to a two-year state sentence), and ordered to pay $17,251 in restitution for robbing eight banks, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Re: Independent Monitor of the Cleveland Division of Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment yesterday charging LORENZO CARTER, 20, of Bridgeport, with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michael Frederick Hesse, 35, of Yuba City, was sentenced on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, by United States District Judge John A. Mendez to five years and 10 months in prison for possession of an unregistered destructive device, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 19, 2015 - Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in response to the announcement today from the U.S. Forest Service on the agency’s decision to officially withdrawal its Proposed Directive on Groundwater Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Bradley E. Tyler, who handled the case, stated that for the tax year 2007, the defendant filed a tax return that did not report all of the income he earned in that year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Theron Maxton, age 60, an incarcerated inmate, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer to serve 100 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for retaliating against a federal officer by threats to the officer and/or the officer’s family member...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard for producing a fictitious financial instrument that appeared to be issued under the authority of the U.S. Treasury. BRADLEY SHERMAN HAMPTON, 55, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $76,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom will speak during a prayer service Saturday in Kansas City, Kan., for the victims of the shooting in Charleston, S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that yesterday, an Indictment was unsealed charging members of a violent New Orleans street gang known as “the 39ers" with violating federal racketeering statutes and committing twelve homicides as well as multiple violations of federal drug and firearm laws.
