News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Woodrow Rutherford, 72, from Houston, Texas, was sentenced on October 8, 2015, in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, following his plea of guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and one count of Interstate Travel in Aid of Racketeering, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 59-year-old Orange, Texas man has been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Vermont. Friday, October 9, 2015. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Young Lim (a.k.a. “Johnny"), 34, and Andi Majka, 27, both of Rutland, were charged with felony distribution of crack cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Daryl F. Yurek, age 60, and Wendy M. Yurek, age of 60, both of Littleton, Colorado were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Denver on October 7, 2015 for income tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud, announced United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: A man who injected a woman with heroin that caused her to overdose pled guilty on October 7, 2015, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will look to say #Yes2Energy and vote to lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. H.R. 702, sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), would #LiftTheBan on crude oil exports, lower prices at the pump, create jobs, and make America more energy independent and energy secure. Support has poured in from numerous organizations ahead of the vote and it’s time we make the current ban on crude oil a thing of the past.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Three young mountain lions have been found dead in the Santa Monica Mountains in recent weeks, illustrating how difficult it can be for the large carnivores to survive into adulthood in such an urbanized and fragmented landscape.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: A beach hazard statement has been issued by the National Weather Service and is in effect from Saturday morning, October 10 through Saturday evening, October 10. All visitors to park beaches should show caution if near the water.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The United States House of Representatives today passed Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-TX) H.R. 702, bipartisan legislation that would #LiftTheBan on crude oil exports. The measure passed by a vote of 261 - 159. Studies have shown that lifting the antiquated ban on crude oil exports would lower...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man was charged in U.S. District Court in Boston and arrested today in Miami in connection with failing to report more than $800,000 in income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: EDGEWATER, Colo. - At about 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, three armed and masked suspects stole four guns, cash and jewelry from the Fast Cash Pawn and Gold Center at 2551 Sheridan Blvd. in Edgewater, Colorado. None of the ten customers and store employees in the building at the time were hurt.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Alessandra Serano (619) 546-8104.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today in Brooklyn federal court, Marcos Rodriguez, who committed a string of drug robberies and related crimes, was sentenced to 272 months of imprisonment. The sentencing proceeding was held before U.S. District Judge Sandra L. Townes. Rodriguez was convicted in July 2011 after a two week jury trial.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Results from NETL-Sponsored Study Now Publically Available.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Anthony Watkins, 32, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, was sentenced to 84 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant’s supervised release ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan announced today $5.7 million in cooperative research agreements and grants to improve the forecasting of hazardous and extreme weather including tornadoes, hurricanes, heavy rainfall, floods and snowstorms.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Yosemite National Park Fire Managers are planning a series of prescribed fires in the park. The prescribed burns would start in mid-October however they are dependent on weather and fuel conditions. Shorter days and cooler temperatures provide fire managers optimal prescribed burning conditions.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: ATHENS, Greece - More than 60 law enforcement officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations' (HSI) Attaché Office in Athens and the Hellenic Customs Authority (HCA) gathered for a new training program focused on enhancing HCA's border interdictions and anti-smuggling investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Wossen Assaye, 43, of Arlington, was sentenced today to 384 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for two counts of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, with both counts based on his armed assaults of two...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston speech therapist who owned a clinic in Sugar Land has been ordered to federal prison for 151 months following her conviction related to a health care fraud scheme that billed Tricare and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas more than $3.8 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
