News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Christopher Chase Bradshaw, 28, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and theft of government funds, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. Bradshaw was a cashier in a military finance unit stationed in Afghanistan. As a result of his access...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - Air and ground crews made good progress in fighting the Bull Gulch Fire today and no significant growth in the fire was reported. Containment is now at five percent. Late this afternoon the total size of the fire was estimated at 150 acres, unchanged from this morning. The fire is...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, a 47-year-old Minneapolis felon pleaded guilty to possessing a.357-caliber revolver. On June 20, 2013, Oscar Lee pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Lee, who was indicted on Nov. 20, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Accessibility improvements will begin at the Hosmer Grove Campground parking lots on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 and take approximately one month to complete. Work will begin at the upper parking lot (closest to the main park road) then proceed to the lower parking lot (closest to the grove).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Manokus Fields, also known as “Fresh," 30, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: A Madison, Illinois, man convicted of Conspiracy to Possess and Pass Counterfeit Securities, Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft, was sentenced on June 21, 2013, to 70 months on Counts 1 and 2 with a consecutive 24 months on Count 3 for a total of 94 months, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $87,889.96, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Maurice Colbert, age 59, of Baltimore, Maryland on charges of armed bank robbery, forcing a bank employee at gunpoint to accompany him around that bank, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Amaury P’Dilla, also known as “Audi," 32, of New York, N.Y., was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following Indictments were returned on June 21, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - The owner of pill mills in Georgetown, KY., and Dry Ridge, KY., which illegally dispensed prescription drugs to thousands of patients, was found guilty on all 21 counts of drug trafficking, money laundering, opening and maintaining a drug involved premise and conspiracy charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Thursday, June 20 became another rigorous day for park rangers at Grand Teton National Park. Numerous rangers responded to a cardiac arrest incident in Buffalo Valley, while other rangers handled two back-to-back rescue missions in the Tetons; one resulted in a fatality.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Recent rain and wind storms have created high water, down trees, debris slides, and other challenging situations in Glacier National Park. Impacts are evident throughout the park, and more impacts are being discovered in the back country as crews are able to survey the areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on June 20, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, GAYLE PATRICK SKUNKCAP, JR., age 42, JESSIE JAY ST. GODDARD, age 50, and WOODROW JAY WELLS, age 45, residents of Browning, Montana, were each sentenced to a term of.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Kotzebue: Lightning ignited multiple wildfires in Noatak NP. Two fires were spotted by an Alaska Fire Service (AFS) detection flight June 20 in the evening. The Kavachurak Fire is 250 acres roughly 68 miles north of Kobuk village. The fire was 30 percent active with one foot flame lengths burning in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A substitute teacher was charged today with possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Paul Alan White, aka Jonathan Alan Davenport, 57, of The Woodlands, has been ordered to prison following his two convictions of impersonated a public servant, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Davenport pleaded guilty Tuesday, April 3, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend special artillery demonstrations on Thursday, July 4, 2013 at Point Park, located on historic Lookout Mountain, to learn about the trials and tribulations that Confederate artillerists experienced in the fall of 1863. While these soldiers often experienced marvelous views of the Tennessee River Valley, firing artillery rounds from the mountain's summit proved not to be as spectacular.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 24, 2013. Beginning on Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Health will continue its review of the Medicare benefit design, while the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will examine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed earlier this week charges a 23-year-old St. Paul felon with possessing a.22-caliber handgun. The indictment specifically charges Phuvanath Ronald Mounthachack with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment was unsealed following Mounthachack’s initial appearance in federal court on June 19.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - Air and ground crews are making good progress in fighting the Bull Gulch Fire. No new significant growth from the fire. Fire crews expect to begin mop-up operations today. The fire is located nine miles northeast of Cotopaxi in Fremont County. It is burning...
