News from November 2015
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives supporting H.R. 1853, which would direct to the President to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders made the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement today that it is expanding its investigation of Volkswagen’s emissions issues to include additional Porsche, VW, and Audi models, with three liter diesel...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders made the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement today that it is expanding its investigation of Volkswagen’s emissions issues to include additional Porsche, VW, and Audi models, with three liter diesel...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Roger Perkins, age 33, formerly of Methuen, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 147 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack"), possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Perkins pleaded guilty to the charges on July 21, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: DAYTON - Amanda R. Pappert, 31, of Kettering, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess and distribute Oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- In honor of those that serve and have served in the United States military, national park units around the country, including Grand Canyon National Park, will offer everyone free entrance on Veterans Day Wednesday, November 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Uriel Silva-Garcia (Silva), 24, of Turicato, Michoacán, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing firearms in furtherance of a large-scale cultivation operation located near Little Poso Creek in the Sequoia National Forest, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Washington - USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced loans and grants for 141 projects to build and improve water and wastewater infrastructure in rural communities across the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Jalita Jenera Johnson has been sentenced for lying when she bought a gun and 50-round drum magazine for her convicted felon boyfriend, Marcus Wheeler. Wheeler later used the gun and magazine to kill an Omaha, Nebraska, police officer while the officer was attempting to serve a warrant on Wheeler for his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man found with heroin and oxycodone pills in Huntington in 2013 was sentenced today to six years and eight months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. David Darrell Walker, 37, previously pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Former Sergeant with Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison in Civil Rights Case Stemming from Beating of Jail Visitor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Richard Smith, age 31, and Bruce Jeffries, age 36, both of Baltimore, Maryland each pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, is hosting a roundtable with Native American leaders this Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to discuss federal efforts to protect sacred tribal land. The roundtable will focus on the dangerous precedent being set in Arizona at a location called Oak Flat, which is sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe, by a mining company called Resolution Copper.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Chesapeake, Ohio, man who conspired with others to distribute heroin in 2014 and 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Alan R. Nolan, 35, pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Cook Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Kelly Breon Kea of Alaska, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 70 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in June 2015 to one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAIRO JACIEL JIMENEZ-HERNANDEZ, age 29, a citizen of Mexico, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Ivan Hernandez pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 30 days in prison with no supervised release to follow, on his conviction of possession of contraband in prison while an inmate at the Moshannon Valley Correctional Center, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: (FORT WORTH, - Texas - A defendant who pleaded guilty this summer to an indictment charging one count of distribution of methamphetamine, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to 360 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of SUSAN ELIZABETH WALKER, 51, to 88-months in prison. WALKER pleaded guilty last year to stealing more than $1.1 million from at least 24 victims who were clients of a financial planning company run by WALKER and her mother. She was sentenced today before Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.
