News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Patrick Crowe Sentenced To Ten (10) Years In Federal Prison For His Theft Of Employee Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― More than 100 assorted pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns have been seized and 14 Chicago area defendants are facing federal firearms charges as a result of an investigation that ended yesterday and was led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ATF agents, together ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Daniel K. Lane, Jr. has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit healthcare fraud for filing fraudulent claims with Medicare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and other insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Norman Stan Chee, 22, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 30 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his statutory rape conviction. Chee will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 27, 2014, Micah Antwan Still, 25, of Covington, Ga, was sentenced by the Honorable J, Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 120 months in federal prison. Still had previously been convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Robert Wesley Warden, 49, of Kamiah, Idaho, was sentenced today in federal court to 10 months in prison for assaulting three law enforcement officers, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. He went to trial and was convicted on May 7, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that MICHAEL ALLEN COOPER, age 39, of Moore, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 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 Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: The report, published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, is the first of its kind to examine the derelict fish trap problem, and so-called “ghost fishing," nationally, and recommends actions to better manage and prevent it.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument fire managers are planning to conduct prescribed burning on 874 acres near Mount Dellenbaugh during the first week of September if weather and fuel conditions allow. Preparation, ignition and monitoring of the higher elevation burns in the ponderosa pine forest are expected to last for a week or longer. Additional burns planned for later in the fall may also be completed in September if conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Zachary Milton Hess, 19, of Las Cruces, N.M., made his initial appearance in Las Cruces federal court yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with using the Internet to make a threat or to maliciously convey false information. Hess remains in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for Aug. 28, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Gennaro Mieli, 62, of Niantic, CT., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., to 41 months in federal prison for his role in a home invasion and robbery in March 2010, of a 78-year-old associate of the Gambino crime family in Stamford, CT., announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JAMES MEYER, a former assistant to artist Jasper Johns, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court in connection with his sale of 22 works that he stole from Johns’ studio in Sharon, Connecticut. MEYER pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, John A. Bolduc, Chief, Port St. Lucie Police Department, Ken J. Mascara, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, Sean Baldwin...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The National Park Service (NPS) will begin issuing Special Use Permits on an interim basis for organized, non-commercial rim-to-rim and extended day hiking and running in the inner canyon of Grand Canyon National Park. The inner canyon is defined as the area below Tonto Platform...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: RENO, Nev. - United States Attorney Daniel G. Bogden this week welcomed members of the Nevada Native American community network to the 18th Annual Native American Conference being held Aug. 25 through Aug. 27, 2014, at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno. Attendees include members of tribal government, tribal law enforcement, social workers, court personnel, and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Saah Johnson, 33, of Fall River, Mass., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., today to his participation in a “black money" scheme which defrauded a Massachusetts man of $100,000, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Ted A. Arruda, Resident Agent in Charge of the Providence Office of the U.S. Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Francis Tronolone, 33, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of stealing thousands of dollars from the City of Buffalo, a Governmental agency which receives federal funding, was sentenced to 6 months in prison by U.S. District Judge, Richard J. Arcara. The defendant has also been ordered to pay $9,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Action Manufacturing Company, headquartered in Bristol, Bucks County, was sentenced today to a five-year term of probation and to pay a fine of $1.2 million for storing explosive hazardous waste illegally at its facility in Atglen, Chester County, PA. The company agreed to install a new...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS BANNED. FROM CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK. CARLSBAD, New Mexico - Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as "drones" are banned from many national parks across the U.S., including Carlsbad Caverns. Officials at Carlsbad Caverns National Park have adopted the ban.Anyone...
