News from March 2015
By DOT News Wire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $500,000 in Emergency Relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to help the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) cover the costs of repairing federal-aid roads damaged by rainfall.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $500,000 in Emergency Relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to help the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) cover the costs of repairing federal-aid roads damaged by rainfall.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: DENVER - A Denver man was sentenced to serve 16 years in federal prison last Friday for gun and drug charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced. Maurice Alyn Mickling, age 28, of Denver, was ordered to serve 192 months in prison, followed by 4 years on supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore. Mickling appeared at the sentencing hearing in custody, and was remanded at its conclusion.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department announced today $6 million for 11 projects aimed at improving potential buyers’ experiences with alternative fuel and plug-in electric vehicles, supporting training, and integrating alternative fuels into emergency planning. By removing barriers to market growth, these projects will expand Americans’ transportation options, minimize fuel costs, reduce carbon pollution, and increase the nation’s energy security.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cedar Pharmacy has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims that it failed to properly record hundreds of transactions involving controlled substances, failed to maintain complete and accurate records, and failed to follow prescription issuance guidelines in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Roger Alexander, 42, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, was sentenced to 144 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Ray M. Mubarak, 54, of Knoxville, Tenn., Dianna Mubarak, 52, of Knoxville, Tenn., and Blythe Bond Sanders, III, 35, of Norris, Tenn., were arrested in Knoxville today by federal agents of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS - CI) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on arrest warrants based upon charges involving conspiracy and bank fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
Release: Washington, DC, March 9, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced additional support for schools working to serve school children healthy meals with the nationwide expansion of the Team Up for School Nutrition Success Initiative. The initiative will provide school nutrition personnel...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owner of an Overland Park hotel was sentenced Monday to 27 months in federal prison for employing undocumented workers, who were paid less than other employees, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. Last month, the defendant’s wife was sentenced to 21 months in the same case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, WILLIAM VONTRAIL JOHNSON, 28, from Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty to prostituting a 14-year-old girl in an Oklahoma City motel, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jessica Lee Warner, age 39, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a $13 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos in Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The leader and three other members of Big Money Team (BMT), a violent street gang that operates in the Little Havana and Allapattah neighborhoods of Miami, Florida, have been convicted of drug conspiracy, firearm and violent crime charges following a one month long trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: BRASILIA, Brazil - Thirty Brazilian Federal Police officers representing 23 different states throughout Brazil completed a four-day training Thursday on the use of new technology to help combat child pornography. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Phase one of a construction project to expand capacity at the Delicate Arch/Wolfe Ranch trailhead parking which was scheduled to begin March 2, 2015 and last through April 2015 will now begin March 23, 2015 and last through May.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The leader and three other members of Big Money Team (BMT), a violent street gang that operates in the Little Havana and Allapattah neighborhoods of Miami, Florida, have been convicted of drug conspiracy, firearm and violent crime charges following a one month long trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MELVIN L. WILSON pled guilty to a charge involving transporting a minor under the age of 18 to travel to Illinois to engage in prostitution.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT: Due to unforeseen delays in construction at the Zion Canyon Visitor Center parking lot, Zion National Park is closing the Visitor Center temporarily and moving most operations over to the Zion Human History Museum, located approximately one half-mile from the South Entrance. Wilderness Permits will be available at the Zion Nature Center, near the South Campground.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Colton Rickels, age 19, of Monticello, Iowa, has been charged with one count of attempted enticement of a minor. The charge is contained in an Indictment filed on March 4, 2015, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
