News from October 2013
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Devils Postpile National Monument re-opens to visitors today. Visitors can access public areas and roads immediately while facilities and other public services are brought back online. Devils Postpile National Monument has been closed since October 1 due to the lapse in Congressional appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Town Of Halfmoon Supervisor Charged in Two-Count Indictment Alleging Extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Albert Thompson, III (31, Deltona) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, possessing controlled substances with intent to distribute, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Thompson to forfeit three firearms as part of his sentence. Thompson pleaded guilty on July 23, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Fort Scott man has been sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison on drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park continues to welcome visitors from across the United States and the globe.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service employees who work at the Home of FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill and the Vanderbilt Mansion returned to work this morning, following the lapse in Congressional appropriations which kept the parks closed for 16-days. "We are very happy to be back on the job," said Superintendent...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Ozark National Scenic Riverways Reopens to Visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KAMAR JAMES, also known as “Sean Steppa," “Sean Lawson" and “Akamar Lawson," 31, a citizen of Jamaica last residing in Hartford, was sentenced on October 9 by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan is handling criminal cases involving various individuals in connection with their employment at Kentwood Pharmacy. From approximately 2004 through November 2010, Kentwood Pharmacy operated retail pharmacies in Grand...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Powell, 49, of Bridgeville, Del., was sentenced on Oct. 1, 2013, to 10 years in prison on federal charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Eleven Pennsylvania residents and a resident of Brooklyn, New York, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for violating federal narcotics trafficking and firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Latino men associated with a Compton street gang pleaded guilty this morning to federal hate crime charges stemming from a racially motivated attack on African-American juveniles on New Year’s Eve.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kevin T. Washington, 48, of Gaithersburg, Md., was sentenced today to a 38-month prison term and ordered to pay restitution of approximately $39,000 to various businesses and banks that were defrauded in a pair of schemes, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr., Cathy L. Lanier of the Metropolitan Police Department and Kathy A. Michalko, Special Agent In Charge of the Washington Field Office of the U.S. Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LOUIS VUCCI, JR., 44, of Ridgefield, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty on October 3 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas P. Smith in Hartford to evading the payment of nearly $200,000 in federal taxes over a five-year period.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Ninety Six National Historic Site re-opens to visitors today [Oct. 17, 2013].Visitors can access public areas and roads immediately while facilities and other public services are brought back online.Ninety Six National Historic Site has been closed since October 1 due to the lapse in Congressional appropriations.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Everglades National Park re-opens to visitors today. Visitors can access all visitor facilities at Everglades National Park including five Visitor Centers and bookstores (Homestead, Royal Palm, Flamingo, Shark Valley, and Everglades City), all park campgrounds, park roads, and recreational waters. Guided...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), announced today the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: A former tax preparer was sentenced today to a term of imprisonment of one year and one day and was ordered to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $74,000 after having been convicted of one count of willfully aiding in the preparation and filing of fraudulent income tax returns, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Renewal Center resident has been sentenced in federal court to 20 months incarceration and three years supervised release on his conviction of escape from custody, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - A Fort Worth, Texas, resident, Bounthieng Sommay, 39, was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson, to 78 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in August 2013 to one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
