News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Defendant Intended to Steal Prescription Medications, Other Items.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Richard Ho Lee, age 33, of Baltimore, today to five years in prison, followed by 11 years of supervised release, for receipt of child pornography. Judge Motz also ordered that upon his release from prison, Lee must register as a sex...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Chad Jason Lansford (29, Jacksonville) with advertising for child pornography. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. During his initial court appearance, Lansford was ordered detained pending his arraignment and detention hearing scheduled for March 24, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to the administration’s regulations on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON - A Powell County couple, that previously admitted to selling nearly $3,000 in counterfeit money, have both been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Flowers Curtis, a.k.a. Jim Curtis, 57, of Hermanville, Mississippi, was sentenced on Thursday, March 19, 2015 by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette to 37 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for committing tax fraud, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced. Curtis was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $185,176.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: A Renton man who shot and killed an 18-year-old as he ran from the scene of a failed drug robbery was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison and four years of supervised release, announced Acting U. S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. DAVID STEVEN ROSS, 36, pleaded guilty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Elaine Boyer, former Commissioner of District 1 in DeKalb County, Georgia, has been sentenced for embezzling county funds and misusing her government credit card.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: For decades, research programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made significant contributions to forensic science, strengthening its scientific underpinnings and ensuring the credibility necessary for effective use in criminal justice proceedings, both in the United...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Philadelphia - For the past four years, the National Park Service, state governments, private organizations and individuals have been commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War and the continuing efforts for human rights today. On April 9, 1865, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant met Confederate Gen.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: A vaccine that protects chickens against two infectious poultry diseases has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to five years imprisonment followed by four years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of March 23. Members will discuss the 340B drug pricing program, Internet-connected products and technology, prescription drug and opioid abuse, and U.S. spectrum policy. The committee will also advance drafts of its coal ash legislation and data security legislation.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to the administration’s regulations on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of the fifth anniversary of the President’s health law, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today released a fact sheet outlining how the Administration has made unilateral changes to delay, extend, or modify the law whenever it chose while denying Congress the opportunity to weigh in on fatal flaws of Obamacare.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: An interim evaluation report summarizing results from the first year of Lakeland Electric’s two-year 3-Period Time of Use (TOU) program called “Shift-to-Save" (STS) is now available. The study is part of a full system-wide deployment of advanced metering infrastructure funded in part by a grant from the Department of Energy’s Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) Program.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the news that Department of Homeland Security has announced the appointment of a Deputy Director for the U.S. Secret Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that two prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, La., were sentenced for beating a fellow inmate resulting in traumatic brain injury.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Federal fire officials from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit are now planning multiple springtime prescribed burns in Mesa, Garfield and Eagle Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Stacie Ann Stevens, age 41, of Hanover, Pennsylvania was charged with destruction of mail in a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg and pled guilty before Senior United States District Court Judge William C. Caldwell on March 19, 2015.
