News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing and possessing child pornography. James Allen Crippen, 44, of Joplin, pleaded guilty before...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-A Jennings man agreed to pay $4,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations of trespass and destruction of United States Government property on the Cimarron River, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: A team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found a way to put a twist on a beam of neutrons-a development that might lead to applications down the road, just like photons and other swirling particles that ultimately were shown to have a practical twist.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that Jason Oliviera, 35, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that ERIC ANTHONY ROME, age 26, formerly of Mauldin, South Carolina, currently incarcerated at the Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Making Threats Against...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week continued their investigation of Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices and the handling of fetal tissue. The committee leaders sent letters to Novogenix Laboratories and Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR ), demanding more...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week continued their investigation of Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices and the handling of fetal tissue. The committee leaders sent letters to Novogenix Laboratories and Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR ), demanding more...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 21 indictments charging 27 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler and Ryan Noel, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region, provide the following information on the incident involving walrus deaths near Cape Lisburne, Alaska. On Sept. 16, 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Former Carlisle Chief Executive Officer (CEO) pled guilty to participating in a $30 million fraud scheme involving ten low-income housing developments.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: The Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Broadcasting Ownership in the 21st Century" scheduled for Friday, Sept. 25, will now begin at 9:30 AM. Witness testimony will be posted at the same link as it is available.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: The Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Broadcasting Ownership in the 21st Century" scheduled for Friday, Sept. 25, will now begin at 9:30 AM. Witness testimony will be posted at the same link as it is available.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Charlotte District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 10th state-wide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015 from...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Pawtucket, R.I., businessman and three others, including two employees and the businessman’s sister, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Providence for their alleged participation in an extensive stolen identity and tax refund fraud scheme which resulted in 448 fraudulently obtained U.S. Treasury checks totaling $2.8 million dollars being deposited into 26 bank accounts under their control.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CLIFFORD SONNIER, age 25, of Harvey, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: After Posting Ad on Craigslist, Communicated with Agent Posing as Step-father of 12-year-old about Sex with Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced awards of grant funds totaling approximately $ 2.8 million by the U.S. Department of Justice to county, city, and local governments, institutions of higher education, and a social service agency in Central Pennsylvania to assist local law enforcement and help reduce domestic violence and violence against women.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MANUEL OMAR MINJAREZ, age 27, of Fresno, California, and currently a resident of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to a three-count Indictment for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and having methamphetamine mailed to him from Fresno.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: The installations, a joint effort from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and NOAA’s National Weather Service, will also add to the these coastal communities’ resilience in the face of severe weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced that $487,578 in federal grant funds have been awarded to the Colorado River Indian Tribes to reduce juvenile offender recidivism on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. The grant funds were awarded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (“OJJDP"), which is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (“OJP").
