News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment against a Rio Grande City Police Department investigator and a second defendant in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The investigator, Noel Pena, 29, of Rio Grande City, and Hector Salinas-Hinojosa, 21, of Roma, are charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute as well as possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed today in U.S. District Court in Scranton, charging Mirela Desouza, age 45, of Bangor, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, with conspiring to violate federal currency transaction requirements for the purpose of sending the proceeds of illegal activities out of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment against a Rio Grande City Police Department investigator and a second defendant in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston...
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) expressed disappointment after Senate Democrats voted against starting debate on trade policy, including bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation that would reaffirm Congress’s role in international trade negotiations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. Edita Milan, 76, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for utilizing her Bridgeport, West Virginia medical practice to unlawfully distribute prescription painkillers, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: A Brownsville resident was sentenced to 63 months for being a felon in possession of a firearm yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: Boston - Dmitri Major, 37, pleaded guilty to distributing crack cocaine after being indicted in June 2014. U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni scheduled sentencing for Sept. 3, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury in Cincinnati has indicted Bryan Barbarawi, 35, of West Chester, Ohio, with committing money laundering and with filing a false currency transaction report.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Michael J. Khoury, 43, of Cahokia, Illinois, pled guilty today in the United States District Court to one count of Possession of a Weapon by a Felon. Evidence showed that on Jan. 19, 2015, Khoury and...
By DOE Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department announced today that it has issued a final authorization for the Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project (Corpus Christi) to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. The Corpus...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hazleton, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in one of the nation’s largest and longest-running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever prosecuted, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-On Monday, May 11th the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center was contacted by the Tallmadge, OH Police Department reporting a missing man who was believed to be suicidal and currently at Grand Canyon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal information was filed today in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging Jacob Tanner, age 28, of East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, with theft of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle today confirmed the individual found dead at the Essex House Motel in Littleton, Colorado, on the evening of Friday, May 8, 2015, was believed by law enforcement to be the person responsible for a string of Metro...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Lavrinda Hamilton, aged 40, of Albany, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty on May 12, 2015, to an information charging her with conspiracy to commit wire fraud before the Honorable Leslie J. Abrams, U.S. District Court Judge, in Albany, Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: Washington -The National Park Service (NPS) is accepting public scoping comments on an Invasive Plant Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (plan/EA) for 15 national parks in the greater Washington DC region. The plan/EA will identify long-term strategies to reduce impacts and threats from invasive...
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: May 12, 2015BOS 2015-103. Forever 21 Retail Inc. store in Connecticut among those endangering. employees because of obstructed emergency exit routes. Westfarms Mall location receives 3 repeated citations, faces $165K in fines. HARTFORD, Conn. - Emergency exits blocked by piles of store inventory appears...
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, in partnership with the International World Peace Rose Gardens (IWPRG), will host its 23rd anniversary program of the "I Have a Dream" World Peace Rose Garden. This annual celebration is conducted at the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church Heritage Sanctuary...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - The final defendant in a three-defendant methamphetamine conspiracy has been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that LINDA D. WHITE, age 64, of Livingston, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick to altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1519. As a result of her conviction, WHITE faces a potential prison term, as well as a significant fine and restitution to her victims.
