News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: HUTCHINSON, KAN. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom will speak during Constitution Day on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at Hutchinson Community College.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday sentenced Tyree Middleton (38, Riverview) today to ten months in federal prison for preparing fraudulent income tax returns. The Court also ordered him to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, in the amount of $8,000. Middleton was indicted on Jan. 14, 2014. He pleaded guilty on July 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Santa Ana, California - An Orange County auctioneer who defrauded banks by accepting bribes to lower the amount of winning bids in trustee auctions was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie Yonekura and Bill L. Lewis, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: WVCADV: Joyce Yedlosky / Tonia Thomas, 304-965-3552, 304-534-0641;.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Marcelina Botello Charles, aka Marcelina Botello Arias (Botello), 46, of Hemet, was sentenced today to four years and two months in prison for her involvement in a marijuana cultivation operation that had adverse environmental impacts on public lands, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Benjamin J. Daniels, 37, of West Bountiful, Utah, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., today to participating in a conspiracy to ship 239 pounds of marijuana to Rhode Island from Pennsylvania in December 2013, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Michael S. Shea, Acting Special Agent in Charge Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for New England.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - At the request of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report documenting federal agencies’ inadequate response to concerns about the potential electric reliability impacts of multiple federal regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced James Kidd, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for carjacking. Judge Hollander found that Kidd is a career offender, based on two previous convictions for robbery ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a on the results of a limited field study that monitored a hydraulic fracturing operation in Greene County, PA for upward fracture growth out of the target zone and upward gas and fluid migration. Results indicate...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Boston, MA - Episcopal Ministries to the Aging, Inc. (EMA), an Eldersburg, Md. based company that operates William Hill Manor, a skilled nursing facility in Easton, Md., has entered into an agreement to pay $1.3 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims for rehabilitation therapy purportedly provided by RehabCare Group East, Inc. (RehabCare), a subsidiary of Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: A greenhouse gas field measurement research program developed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and several collaborating institutions has been named a "Project to Watch" by a United Nations organization that focuses on harnessing big data for worldwide benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Stella, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for transporting a minor across state lines for illicit sex. Tong Yang, 46, of Stella, was sentenced by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Army sergeant pleaded guilty today to bribery and conspiracy to defraud the government for his role in a scheme to steal more than one million gallons of fuel from the U.S. military for resale on the black market in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that William Daniel Thompson (67) was arrested on Sept. 11, 2014, for attempting to persuade, induce, and entice a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Thompson faces a minimum penalty of 10 years, up to a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Thompson made his initial appearance in federal court on Sept. 12, 2014. He is being detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Capping the second phase of Operation “Supernova" - which was a multiagency investigation into Ventura County’s largest street gang - the leader of the Oxnard-based Colonia Chiques street gang has been found guilty of a host of criminal charges, including operating a continuing criminal enterprise.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: CARLSBAD, NM - Carlsbad Caverns National Park will be holding a "Star Party" this Saturday night, Sept. 20, from 7:30 -9:30 p.m. in the parking lot immediately after the Bat Flight Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: SHERIDAN, Wyo. ? Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Luke Franey, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Denver Field Division; Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Thomas P. Ravenelle, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Denver Field Division; Chief Richard Adriaens, of the Sheridan ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: This Saturday, Sept. 20, marks the 22nd year the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area has hosted the Haunting in the Hills Storytelling Festival at the Bandy Creek Fields. Superintendent Niki Stephanie Nicholas said, "This year's event promises to be the best one yet! Storytellers, traditional...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: STAMFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Gary England, 42, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 92 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a southwestern Connecticut narcotics trafficking ring.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: The body of a 22-year-old-man from Missoula, Montana, Beau Weiher, was recovered from the north side of Mount Siyeh in Glacier National Park on Sunday night, Sept. 14, at approximately 7 p.m.
