News from August 2014
By USDA Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
Release: Washington, DC, Aug. 21, 2014 - Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon today announced additional tools to help schools serve healthier meals and snacks as students return for the new school year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - William Richard Pryor, 68, of Gulfport, was arrested by FBI agents pursuant to a criminal complaint charging him with transportation of minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Dwayne Howard, 35, from Dubuque, Iowa, has been charged with four counts of distributing crack cocaine near a school or playground. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on Aug. 18, 2014, in the United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that THEODORE PLATANITIS, age 44, of Rancho Cordova, California, pleaded guilty as charged yesterday before U. S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt, to Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud and Bank Fraud.
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: Defendant sold drugs used by 16-year-old girl, who subsequently died of overdose.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Painter and Miami-Dade County school teacher Linda Oldenburg's paintings on marine debris will fill Biscayne National Park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery starting Sept. 12, 2014. Upcycled: Canvases from the Sea features park scenery created in acrylics and pastels on actual pieces of flotsam...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BUTTE - A former Belgrade woman was convicted on Aug. 20, 2014 of five counts of aiding or advising a false tax return. Francis Bercaw faces 3 years in prison, $250,000 in fines, and 1 year supervised release for each count. Bercaw has been released pending sentencing on December 4, 2014, in Missoula.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Mexican national Alejandro Soto-Silva, 21, charging him with conspiracy to cultivate marijuana, cultivation of marijuana, and depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) proposes to construct a new multi-use trail, to include hiking and mountain biking, in Big Bend National Park.The public, organizations, and other agencies are invited to review and comment upon a revised Environmental Assessment (EA) describing and analyzing the proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Twenty-six people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to bring large amounts of heroin, cocaine and marijuana to Toledo from Arizona, California, Illinois and Mexico, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage store owner pled guilty to wire fraud and criminal forfeiture in connection with the SNAP federal food aid program that he was authorized to administer out of his store.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Krist Koranteng, age 32, of Burtonsville and Laurel, Maryland, on conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering charges, in connection with a scheme to defraud elderly individuals which involved the conspirators pretending to be romantically...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -A correctional officer at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, La., along with a relative of an inmate, were charged with conspiring to introduce a cell phone into the prison, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Abraham Alfonia Malone, 58, of Mobile, was sentenced in federal court this morning on three counts of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Malone had been convicted in 2003 for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and sentenced to 120 months custody. He was released in 2011 to an eight-year term of supervised released, and was arrested in February of 2014 on the new charges. Malone pled guilty to the three new counts in May of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Aug. 21, 2014, Robert Carey Evans, 58, of Waukesha, Wis., was ordered by U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to pay $3250 in restitution to a child pornography victim. This is the first time that the Federal District Court in North Dakota...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Beginning Aug. 20, 2014, Big Bend National Park implemented the prohibition of the launching, landing, or operation of unmanned aircraft from or on lands and waters administered by the National Park Service within the boundaries of Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Edgar Garay-Vasquez, 39, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Aug. 15, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Garay-Vasquez was arrested in Worland, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered to pay...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Grand Jury in Scranton returned indictments Tuesday charging five members of the Wilkes-Barre City Employees Federal Credit Union with conspiracy and bank fraud. The indictments were sealed pending the arrests and/or voluntary surrender of the defendants today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Tyrell Richmond, 31, of Visalia, charging him with three counts of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud and coercion, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
