News from August 2014
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official agreed to work with U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), local officials in Pennsylvania, and other stakeholders to try to resolve outstanding hazard mitigation efforts that cannot move forward due to a new FEMA policy that bans fracking underneath any property purchased with FEMA mitigation funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, former Watermark Group comptroller Monica R. Richardson, age 39, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release in connection with an embezzlement scheme underlying her failure to remit company withholding taxes announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Internal Revenue Service--Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven McCollough.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Acting Commissioner Lowell Pimley announced that $496,337 in WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program funding will be made available for six groups to establish or expand a watershed group. Those groups are located in California, Colorado, Montana and New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: In celebration of Nēnē Awareness Day (September 26) Haleakalā National Park is seeking student artists in grades 6, 7, and 8 for a Nēnē Awareness Day Logo Contest. The contest begins on Aug. 25, which is the 98th birthday of the National Park Service, and runs through September 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced Daniel Isiah Thody to 90 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $162,857.00 restitution to the Internal Revenue Service announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Internal Revenue Service--Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven McCollough and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Final Defendant Sentenced in Racketeering Case.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Flagstaff Area National Monuments Superintendent Releases Updated Compendium.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JON PAUL SHROPSHIRE, age 54, of Eufaula, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 46 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Conspiracy, in Violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, the 2014 Eastern District of Tennessee Reentry Summit, Working Together for a Solution, was hosted by William C. Killian, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, at Chattanooga State Community College.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Beckley man pled guilty in federal court to obtaining oxycodone by fraud. Daniel Michael Koehler, 30, admitted that he coaxed his girlfriend, a former pharmacy technician at ByPass Pharmacy in Beckley, to steal oxycodone for...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park invites everyone to come celebrate the National Park Service’s 98th Birthday with free entrance to both districts of the park all day on Monday, August 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier from Shreveport pleaded guilty to stealing Netflix DVDs and money, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Daniel L. Jones, age 56, of Fredericksburg, Virginia was sentenced today to 37 months’ imprisonment for aiding in the preparation of fraudulent tax returns for his clients and making a false statement to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Lance C. Tew, age 26, of Greer, Jessica R. Hollingsworth, age 24, of Taylors, and Mary Virginia Merritt, age 42, of Greer, were sentenced today in federal court in Greenville, for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, a violation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Northern Cambria, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to one year and one day in prison and four years supervised release on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Michael J. Dow, 44, of Beckley, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court in Beckley to distribution of heroin. Dow admitted that on March 2, 2014, he sold heroin to a person who was cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on F Street in Beckley, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Yesterday, Derrick Richards (42, of Syracuse, NY) was sentenced to 37 months imprisonment in U. S. District Court according to United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. In February, Richards pled guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, a felony under federal law. In addition to his term of incarceration, U.S. District Court Judge Glenn T. Suddaby ordered that Richards be placed on a 3 year term of federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Lucio Cruz-Sanchez, 35, resident of Portland, Oregon and his wife Jamie Lyne Sanchez 23, of Gresham, Oregon, were charged today with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine and with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: James L. Santelle the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today the indictment in the Northern District of Illinois of Attorney Beau B. Brindley (age: 36) and Marina Collazo (age: 30) of Chicago in connection with a scheme to present perjured testimony in the 2009 trial of United States v. Alexander Vasquez, in federal district court in Chicago.
