News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Megan Kolberg Admits to Stealing Over $100,000.00 and Staging Armed Bank Robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: In celebration of Thanksgiving and as a way to encourage healthy outdoor time, Mount Rainier and Olympic National Parks will offer free entry to all park areas on Friday, November 27.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the United States Department of Commerce’s confirmation that the agency did in fact issue a cross-border oil exchange license with Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CARLOS ALBERTO RIVERA-MELENDEZ, age 39 a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its work on flu preparedness, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing entitled, “U.S. Public Health Preparedness for Seasonal Influenza: Has the Response Improved?" Testifying were officials from the Centers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a St. Louis, Mo., man and a Berkeley, Mo., woman have been sentenced for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy after the man suffered a heroin overdose in a Columbia, Mo., hotel room.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Ladarious Gibbs, Derek C. Turner, Andre Clark, Brandon Washington, and Raphael Banks have been sentenced to federal prison for a series of violent armed carjackings in the Atlanta area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced Reginald Wardell Howard, Jr. (37, Ocala)to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury found him guilty of the offense on June 17, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Remember that pair of gold electroplated earrings you bought years ago at the mall? (Oh yes, you do.) Key to crafting their allure was the ability to place an ever-so-thin layer of valuable metal atop a less costly base material. This same strategy will be central to building the "engines" of future hydrogen-powered cars, and scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed* a way to do it more effectively with metals rarer than gold.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for bank robbery and using a firearm during a crime of violence in connection with the robbery of Credit Union 1 on August 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Moses Okot -, 27, of Portland has been charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Washington - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee comment on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation’s hearing concerning human trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former Boston Police officer who was also the former treasurer of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association was sentenced today for making a false statement to the FBI in connection with his cash loans to a known criminal.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its work to better understand the ways new technologies are disrupting the status quo and impacting jobs and the economy. Adding to the subcommittee’s review of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Wayne Sunderland, a/k/a "Sean Johnson," a/k/a "Thomas Butler," 32, of South Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Sunderland pleaded guilty on July 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Pedro Ramirez (40, Tampa) to 3 years and 10 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty on July 23, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Park Campaign to “Keep Bears Wild" Contributed to Success.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A plastic surgeon with a practice in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, was convicted today by a federal jury of fraudulently diverting millions in corporate earnings for his personal use, costing the United States nearly $3 million in tax revenue between 2006 and 2010, U.S Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: Every day on average, 55 people kill themselves with a firearm, and 46 people are shot or killed in an accident with a gun. The Washington Post reported last month that so far in 2015 there have been 43 instances where a toddler three or under has shot themselves or others, leading...
