News from October 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Irvin Louis Kendrick, 51, of Prichard, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute synthetic marijuana, or "spice," and a conspiracy to launder drug money. Kendrick pled guilty to the charges in April of 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced David Chris Simms, age 39, of Suitland, Maryland, today to 130 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: LONDON - A Wayne County man, previously convicted of producing child pornography, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Shooting Took Place Outside Southeast Washington Apartment Complex.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment in an ongoing investigation into a nationwide scheme involving millions in counterfeit checks and hundreds of stolen identities.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.

By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 2.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following an announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding how it will pay for biosimilar biological products...

By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement condemning the rocket attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Allegedly Carjacked an Unlicensed Taxi and Forced the Driver to Wear and Carry a Purported Explosive Device to Rob a Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Rholan D. Pryor, 25, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was convicted of heroin trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Fall and winter visitors who wish to experience the exhibits at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado, should note the winter hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 1, 2015, through Feb. 29, 2016. The museum is open daily, and admission is free during the winter.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced witnesses for the Committee’s upcoming hearing on U.S. wildfire budgetary impacts and threats to natural resources.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: ‘Cap’n Cosmics’ had Multiple Unsafe Hash Oil Manufacturing Operations -One Exploded Hurling Propane Canisters more than 100 feet.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida. - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Paul Reynolds Friel, Jr. (47, Orange Park) pleaded guilty today to concealing material facts during an interview with a government agent. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison. His co-defendant, Marisol...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tony Torrez, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., has been charged with violating the federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws in a criminal complaint filed by the DEA this afternoon. Torrez, who is currently in state custody on unrelated charges, will be transferred to federal custody to answer to the charges in the criminal complaint.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston yesterday in connection with his possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A man imprisoned in Michigan has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years imprisonment and three years supervised release, on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Heinrich charges result of long-term child exploitation investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that yesterday a federal Grand Jury in Harrisburg charged Manuel Zarate-Palomares with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.