News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a felony information has been filed against Calmen Stewart, Jr., age 23, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The information charges Stewart with conspiracy to pass counterfeit federal reserve notes at locations throughout the Middle District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team (NRT) arrived yesterday on-scene and will begin the scene investigation today at the Grandview Commons apartment complex fire, 500 block of Apollo Way, in Madison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - James McNeal, 63, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and Alphonso Stoddard, 59, of Forest Heights, Maryland, were convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit bank robbery, armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: Washington - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) consumer advisory regarding digital currencies...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Most of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is now open, including popular trails like Kīlauea Iki. Some closures remain in effect as park staff removes fallen trees and other debris from roadways and trails following Tropical Storm Iselle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: Following the tragic killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager who was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers Jr. (MI-13), Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay (MO-01) and Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) issued a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to formally investigate the shooting.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: Copper Center, AK -- The National Park Service Alaska Regional Communications Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Louis N. Gallo, III, 45, of Parkland, the Vice-President of Commodities Online LLC (COL), pled guilty on Friday, August 8, 2014, for his participation in a $21 million investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Gary L. DuRocher, 41, no fixed address, was charged in a Criminal Complaint following a series of incident at the Gettysburg National Military Park on Friday night, August 8, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: Richard Brownrigg, age 59 of Winnebago, Nebraska, was sentenced upon his conviction for forcibly resisting a Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Officer. Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Brownrigg to serve five years of probation and ordered him to pay a special assessment of $100.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is starting a public scoping period on an environmental assessment to reduce impacts to the adjacent community and public lands at Guffey Gorge (also known as Paradise Cove) in Park County, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Shannon Conley, age 19, of Arvada, Colorado, has, through her attorney, filed a notice of disposition in her criminal case (14-CR-163-RM). A notice of disposition is generally filed by the defense to notify the court that an agreement between the prosecution and the defense has been reached...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Waynesboro, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation on his conviction of conspiracy to deliver cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - 26 violent criminals have been taken off the streets making Crenshaw Village a safer place to live, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris; George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama; Robert F. Lasky, FBI Special Agent in Charge, Mobile Division; and Bill Franklin, Sheriff of Elmore County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Simone Nicole Gary, 36, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and Social Security fraud in relation to the submission of fraudulent claims to the American Kidney Fund (AKF), announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Andrew Zarate, 20, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to aiming a laser pointer at a California Highway Patrol airplane, Air 43, announced U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Monica Miller, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Sacramento field office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Christopher James Michelotti, a 30-year-old resident of Great Falls, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Michelotti's plea could result in a term of life in prison and his sentence can be no less than 12 years. Michelotti is being detained pending his sentencing on Nov. 11, 2014 at 9:00 am in front of U.S. District Judge Brian Morris.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Thursday, Aug. 21 at the Allington Inn, 215 W. Central Ave. in Kremmling.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore invites you to join the 33rd annual Sand Sculpture Contest. We welcome all ages at this free community event located at Drakes Beach. Categories include: Children (14 and under), Families, Adult Individuals, and Adult Groups. Three prizes will be awarded in each of those...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Jose Antonio Hernandez, 42, of Fresno, today to three years and four months in prison, for manufacturing and trafficking counterfeit CDs and DVDs, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
