News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Officials encourage parolees to take advantage of services and make smart choices in leading law abiding lives or risk returning to prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin, West Virginia State Police Colonel Jay Smithers, and other state leaders, along with school, law enforcement, child advocacy and mental health professionals will come together at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, 2015, to unveil a statewide initiative to address child maltreatment and children’s exposure to trauma.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on an oil and gas exploration and development program northwest of De Beque, Colo.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA:Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a 90-minute historical hike along the Brown's Ferry Federal Road at Moccasin Bend National Archeological District on Saturday, April 11 at 2 pm. Participants should take the Manufacturer's Road exit off Highway 27 and drive west, following the "Special Event" signs to the Brown's Ferry Federal Road parking area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Northcraft, 41, of Weirton, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today of unlawful possession of firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Cesar Eloy Munoz-Silva, of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has been sentenced to 168 months imprisonment for importing methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin into the United States from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: An expert in healthy weight-loss interventions funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is studying complex brain responses to the dramatically changed U.S. food supply. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) report that during the past four decades, the amount of food on hand to purchase from the U.S. market-in terms of average daily caloric availability-has increased by 600 calories per person.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Pittsburgh woman was sentenced on Friday, March 27, 2015 for orchestrating a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme that harmed scores of victims.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: A multiagency operation was recently concluded that returned two herds of endangered bighorn sheep to locations in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, Inyo National Forest, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, worked together on the complex operation in the Sierra Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Gabriel Vashon Seay, age 35, of Camp Springs, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Judge Chasanow also ordered that Seay forfeit a gun, ammunition and over $23,000 in cash seized from his home.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held the joint field hearing, "Tomah VAMC: Examining Quality, Access, and a Culture of Overreliance on High-Risk Medications" in Tomah, Wisconsin. Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del) submitted the following statement for the Record...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Bernie George Baier, 51, of Wheeling, was convicted in federal court today of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Michael Wesley Lee, a/k/a “King," or “King P," age 31, of Odenton, Maryland, today to 13 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release, for use of an interstate facility to promote a prostitution business, and conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Rodney D. Butler, a/k/a “Rodney Davenport," 48, of the Houston, Texas, area, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute more than 50 kilograms of cocaine and conspiring to launder tens of thousands of dollars in cocaine-derived currency. The plea was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Butler is the twelfth defendant to plead guilty in the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Javier Guerrero Molina (34, citizen of Mexico) to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to transport a minor child from Las Vegas to Jacksonville with the intent that the child engage in sexual activity with him. Molina was in the United States illegally. He was arrested on May 30, 2014, at the Jacksonville International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Devin Lee Smith (27, Waynesville, GA) with child sex trafficking, enticing a minor to travel in interstate commerce for prostitution or unlawful sexual activity, transporting a minor in interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant is Accused of Operating a Rogue Internet Pharmacy, Generating about $8.3 Million in Illegal Proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service and the NationalPark Foundation today announced the launch of Find Your Park, a public awareness and education campaign celebrating the milestone centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016 and setting the stage for the next 100 years. First Lady...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted illegally possessing a firearm and conspiring with others to smuggle contraband, including marijuana and tobacco, into a federal pretrial detention facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a 2-hour car caravan tour on Saturday, April 18 at2 pm exploring the challenges faced by soldiers, civilians, and former enslaved people around the Chickamauga Battlefield at the end of the Civil War.
