News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Jackson, TN - The February 2015 indictment of a married couple and their accomplice, charging them with defrauding Medicare, has been superseded to add the couple’s son as a fourth defendant. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the superseding indictment today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Santa Fe, NM. - Reclamation’s Albuquerque Area Office announced today that it will initiate negotiations on a proposed repayment contract for the San Juan-Chama Project with the Pueblos of Nambe, Pojoaque, Tesuque and the Pueblo de San Ildefonso for the statutory allocation of project water as part of the Aamodt Litigation Settlement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Federal and local law enforcement today arrested 16 of 24 defendants indicted in September as part of a multi-million dollar conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine, mainly within Jefferson County. U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot and Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale announced the charges and arrests.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In case you missed it, earlier today Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, took to the Senate floor to urge his Senate Colleagues to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Lauren E. Blackwell, age 29, of Bishopville, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Florence, to identity theft, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028(a)(7). United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks of Florence accepted the guilty plea and will impose sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: SALEM, MA- The National Park Service is announcing a seasonal change to the hours of operation for the Salem Regional Visitor Center (2 New Liberty St.) effective November 2.The Visitor Center will now be open Wednesday through Sunday, 10am-5pm beginning on November 2and on select holidays including...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Attorney General Loretta Lynch presented 279 Justice Department employees and 33 individuals, including 12 people in the District of Oregon, with Attorney General Awards at a ceremony today in Washington, DC. These annual awards recognize department employees and other individuals for their dedication to carrying out the Department of Justice’s mission.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement in response to the September jobs report.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Ongoing Migration from Central America: An Examination of FY2015 Apprehensions. " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: The following named individuals have been charged with a federal crime or crimes by the return of an indictment by the Grand Jury. A grand jury Indictment does not constitute evidence of guilt. A grand jury Indictment is a method of bringing formal charges against the defendant. A defendant is presumed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 28-year-old California resident was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy in Scranton, for possessing with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mark J. LaPierre, 55, of Lyman, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to one year and one day in prison and two years of supervised release for social security fraud. He was also ordered to pay $38,212 in restitution. LaPierre pleaded guilty on April 22, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: PAGE, Arizona - Officials from the Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Colorado Region, in partnership with federal, state, local and county law enforcement agencies, conducted a security exercise at Glen Canyon Dam facilities today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANDREALIE LEWIS, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to federal drug violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Oscar Toro, 43, of Fremont, Calif., pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Toro will be sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul J. Campana, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, on September 6, 2015, the defendant called the Lockport City Police Department through the 911 Emergency Call Center and made oral threats over the telephone. During this call, Brown stated to an...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dennis Bernard, 29, of Cranston, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to trafficking heroin and crack cocaine, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Cranston Police Chief Colonel Michael J. Winquist and Warwick Police Chief Colonel Stephen M. McCartney.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Aaron Michael Burns, 26, of Norfolk, was sentenced today to 312 months in prison for production of child pornography. In addition to the sentence of imprisonment, he was sentenced to a term of lifetime supervised release.
