News from April 2016
By USDA Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominations for individuals to serve on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a federal indictment charging JAIME EDWARD MCCLELLAN, a/k/a “Goldie Armani Callaway," a/k/a, “Jaime Edward McClennan," a/k/a, “Armando Blanco," a/k/a, “Red," 31, for conspiring to distribute heroin and selling heroin that resulted in the death of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: St Louis, MO - Quentin Cook, Florissant, MO, was sentenced to 48 months in prison. In February, after a three-day trial before United States District Judge Ronnie L. White, he was convicted of diverting mail believed to contain clothing, marijuana and other items to addresses that he and his co-defendants controlled. Cook and his co-defendants were former Postal employees of the Network Distribution Center in Hazelwood.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of New York. Wednesday, April 13, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Search continues for missing woman at Grand Canyon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Taofeeq Ogunlana, age 39, of Chicago, Illinois today to 13 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A former police officer in the Cook County Sheriff’s Department was sentenced today to 7 1/2 years in federal prison for robbing drug dealers of cocaine, marijuana and contraband cigarettes while on duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David Schnorbus, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service (“DOS-DSS"); Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent in Charge of the Department of...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) delivered the following opening statement this morning at the Natural Resources Committee hearing on the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act," also known as PROMESA Act (H.R. 4900 ), the Republican led bill that aims to address the island’s debt crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Loretta Irby, 63, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, has been charged with theft of government property, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, WEST VIRGINIA - Students in Harrison County, West Virginia participated in a dynamic drug education and prevention initiative this week, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following opening statement at a joint hearing of the Subcommittees on Environment & the Economy and Health on the “Flint Water Crisis: Impacts and Lessons Learned."
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Honolulu - From June 13 through June 26, 2016, the dock for the USS Arizona Memorial will be dismantled, removed, and replaced. Visitors will not be able to disembark onto the USS Arizona Memorial during this time, although a boat ride to observe the memorial will still be available. Tickets can be obtained through www.recreation.gov or on a same day, first come/first served basis.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Alessandra Serano (619) 546-8104.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Thomas Edward James, age 34, of Phoenix, Arizona, formerly of Fort Smith, was sentenced to 108 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release on one count of Mail Fraud and 36...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Hanson man was arrested today and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with sending sexually explicit videos to two pre-teen girls.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Gerpis Pena, of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty to a three-count indictment charging him with illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported, misrepresenting a social security number, and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today joined Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) in introducing S. 2795, Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act, a bill to modernize ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Daryl McCall, 60, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information with one count of theft of government funds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the Information, the defendant received retirement benefits intended for his mother, after his mother’s death in March 2009 until August 2013. The defendant’s alleged actions resulted in a loss to the government of approximately $52,314.
