News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ryan Demers, 31, of Brookline, New Hampshire, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 57 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and one count of distribution of oxycodone announced...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Good morning and welcome. Today’s hearing is our committee’s second discussion of the hardships that federal employees face when they take the courageous step of coming forward to expose wrongdoing. This hearing will focus on whistleblowers from the Department of Veterans Affairs. VA employees who come...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that KENNETH JAMES HEBERT, a/k/a Keno, age 51, of Hugo, Oklahoma was found guilty, by a federal jury, for being a FELON IN POSSESSION OF EXPLOSIVE, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 842(i)(1), 844(a)(1) and 2. The jury trial began on Monday, Sept. 21, 2015 and concluded on Sept. 22, 2015 with the guilty verdict.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Christopher E. Strick, 36, of Charleston, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to one year and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Strick previously pled guilty in June of 2015 admitting that he had sold heroin to a confidential informant working with the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (“MDENT") in January of 2012. The drug deal took place at Strick’s Edgewood Drive residence.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 10:15 AM in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “The Disrupter Series: How the Sharing Economy Creates Jobs, Benefits Consumers, and Raises Policy Questions."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Eight members of Band Crew, a northwest Detroit street gang, were charged in an indictment unsealed today with various offenses based on their roles in gang-related attempted murders, robberies and shootings. The charges are the result of the Detroit One initiative, a collaborative effort between law enforcement and the community to reduce violent crime in Detroit.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Lake Mead National Recreation Area is hosting a variety of events and offering free entry into the park Sept. 26 in celebration of National Public Lands Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Stephen Mynatt, 32, of Garfield Heights, Ohio, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Defendant Fired Nine Shots at Group of Women and MPD Officer.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: An unprecedented, landscape-scale conservation effort across the western United States has significantly reduced threats to the greater sage-grouse across 90 percent of the species’ breeding habitat and enabled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to conclude that the charismatic rangeland bird does...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold a media event on top of Folsom Dam to provide an update on the status of the temporary emergency floating pump system being constructed. The pump system will have a capacity of 30 cubic feet per second and ensure Reclamation can continue to provide water to local communities should the continuing drought expose the dam’s intake structure due to low water elevations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Alicia D. Duerr, 30, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a nomination hearing today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sought a commitment from Susan Coppedge, the president’s nominee for Ambassador-at-Large and director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that ANDREW DURON, also known as “Chavo," 35, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for brokering a 25 kilogram cocaine transaction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Phillip Jerome Murphy, 41, of Franklin, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. A fellow Bloods gang member, Collie Sanks, 37, of Emporia, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin on Sept. 17, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today commented on Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s announcement that the Universal Service Fund’s Connect America Fund will focus its resources for broadband deployment on areas where private investment is not occurring.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost 5,000 collection sites around the nation to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 10th National Prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: DETROIT - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost 5,000 collection sites around the nation to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 10th National Prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was arrested yesterday on bank fraud charges in connection with his theft of more than $440,000 from the Spain-based seafood and fish distributor for which he served as the United States representative.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 10:15 AM in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “The Disrupter Series: How the Sharing Economy Creates Jobs, Benefits Consumers, and Raises Policy Questions."
