News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: A former member of the military who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq was sentenced in federal court today to serve a five year term of probation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Work has begun on a major project to replace and upgrade the.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Dolores, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office is planning to conduct a prescribed burn in the West Rim Pines fuels treatment project area, located seven miles northeast of Dove Creek, Colo., beginning as early as next week, or as conditions allow. The objectives of this prescribed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Cook County employee who managed a $10.3 million federal grant to assist county residents who were impacted by floods in 2008 was arrested today on federal charges for allegedly engaging in a fraud scheme with several contractors and swindling at least $330,000 from the program. A vendor who allegedly kicked-back more than $100,000 was indicted together with the former county official.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Aug. 28, 2014, Charles William Carlton, 29, Katy, Texas, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 20 years and six months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of controlled substances and controlled substance analogues resulting in serious bodily injury or death, introduction and delivery of a misbranded drug and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Aug. 28, 2014, Darren E. Everett, 43, and his companion, Mackenzie A. Leonard...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: A 46-count indictment was filed charging a Solon doctor with illegally distributing thousands of doses of prescription painkillers such as Percocet, Oxycontin and Opana to people with no legitimate medical need for the drugs, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Shawn Rives, 33, of Petersburg, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 210 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: DENVER - A jury in U.S. District Court in Denver yesterday found Maurice Alyn Mickling, age 28, of Denver, guilty of gun and drug distribution charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced. The three-day jury trial was heard before U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: A tribute to Shoshonean history and culture will take place at the Colter Bay Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park on September 3rd and 4th. The Shoshonean peoples of the Eastern Great Basin and Western Plains hunted seasonally in what is now Grand Teton National Park and left behind a sizeable...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Jason Wilson, 34, formerly of Yosemite, charging him with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and taking property from Yosemite Lodge, in Yosemite National Park, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Southeast Arizona Group Superintendent H. Lane Baker announced today that the “Superintendent’s Compendiums" covering the three National Park Service (NPS) sites in Cochise County have been updated with language restricting the use of unmanned aircraft, commonly referred to as “drones", within the park...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: A federal indictment was filed today charging four individuals with trafficking in counterfeit trademarks, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - The first defendant of eighteen indicted in a nine-count federal indictment filed in the Southern District of Mississippi against defendants in South Africa, Canada, Indiana, California, New York and Wisconsin, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R Parmer, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A middle school teacher in northwest suburban Buffalo Grove was arrested this morning on federal charges for allegedly receiving child pornography and persuading a minor to produce pornographic images of himself. The defendant, JOHN C. VASTIS, also known as “Pete," 51, of Lakemoor, which straddles...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Aug. 28, 2014 - Chris Young a/k/a Soulja C, 26, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced to life In prison today, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Yesterday, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, two Queens, New York residents pled guilty today in connection with importing more than 100,000 hazardous and counterfeit children’s toys from China for sale in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Kenneth Ronald Robinson, age 52, of Baltimore, today to 12 years in prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking involving a 14 year old girl. On Aug. 26, 2014, Judge Bennett sentenced co-defendant Eric Evans, age 35, of Baltimore, to 10 years in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for the same charge.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office is urging the public to use caution this holiday weekend as recent rains have left many roads across BLM impassable, and the danger of local flash-flooding remains.
