News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 31-year-old Plano schoolteacher has been arrested on child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Caleb J. Petzoldt and George C. Burgasser, who are handling the case, stated that on Feb. 25, 2014, a vehicle being driven by the defendant was stopped on South Division St. in the City of Buffalo. As he was being pulled over, Caruso handed a fully loaded.32 caliber revolver...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Curecanti Field Office will close the East Portal Road located east of Montrose, Colorado, on Nov. 19, for the winter. If there is a winter storm before Nov. 19, the road will be closed early. The East Portal Road, beginning at the junction with State...
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: *Witness list changed*. **Hearing postponed**. Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events: Tuesday, November 17. Hearing: Women and Technology: Increasing Opportunity and Driving International Development. 10...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: MINERAL, CA - The recent storms and transition to snowy winter conditions have closed the Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway to vehicle traffic through the park for the season as of Monday, November 16. Visitors can still drive into the park as far as the Manzanita Lake area at the north entrance...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Unmanned aircraft users should know they probably won’t need help registering their drones when the system is in place.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Mexican national was sentenced last week to 14 months in prison for reentering the country after having been previously deported twice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Defendants Arrested after Officers Find 124 Pounds of Cocaine in Tractor-Trailer.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, a scenic jewel of southern Nevada, marks a birthday today. Legislation designating the rugged cliffs and canyons as Nevada’s first national conservation area was approved 25 years ago today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, Kansas - - James Shroba, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, announced today that a drug courier who was trying to outrun the Kansas Highway Patrol, driving at 111 miles per hour, was sentenced Monday to 47 months in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has scheduled oversight hearings through the beginning of December on federal wildland fire management strategies, offshore oil and natural gas production regulations, and the implementation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a four-day trial, a federal jury found 20-year-old Khalil Davis guilty of two business robberies as well as brandishing and discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty verdict today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: The BLM-Utah competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Nov. 17, 2015, has been postponed to allow the time needed to better accommodate the high level of public interest in attending the sale. BLM-Utah expects to reschedule the sale in the near future. Once the details have been determined, they...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A former U.S. Navy Lt. Commander and ordained Catholic priest pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware to one count of production of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly III of the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Concluding one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever seen in Southern California, two men who operated a Calabasas firm at the center of a scam that cost victims approximately $135 million were sentenced today, with one man being ordered to serve nine years, and the other a decade, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet was sentenced on Nov. 16, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man convicted after a jury trial of producing child pornography has been sentenced to 292 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, Nov. 18, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, chaired by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), will hold a joint hearing titled, “Federal Student Aid: Performance-Based Organization Review." The hearing will take place at 9:00 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Peter Foy, 62, of Alburg, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to one year of probation following his guilty plea to a charge that he concealed assets in his bankruptcy case. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered that Foy pay a fine of $3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Two area men have been sentenced for their of engaging in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft by using skimming devices on bank ATM machines in and around Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Bernard Nwachan Akwar, 28, of Houston, and Tokunbo Patrick Aiyewa, 28, of Sugar Land, both had pleaded guilty, admitting to the placement of skimming devices on bank ATM machines in order to obtain information from customer cards.
