News from September 2014
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia,September 4, 2014-Nature is around every corner, especially in the Bluestone River Gorge. Explore life and history with a ranger on a guided hike in the Bluestone River gorge onSaturday, September 6from10:00 am -11:30 am. This leisurely, river-side walk is a fun way to experience...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: In the Austin area today, federal and state authorities arrested 22 individuals, including ringleaders 54-year-old Timothy John Bruner of Leander, Texas, and 23-year-old Ryan Robert Rowland of Round Rock, Texas, in connection with a steroid distribution operation announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A pastor of the now-defunct ReBirth International Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey, admitted today to defrauding financial institutions as part of a $15 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that David Burgess, 27, and Jesse Burgess, 26, both of Charleston, West Virginia, were each sentenced to 21 months in federal prison. Both men were sentenced on federal gun charges in connection with the theft of firearms from two local businesses. United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., imposed the sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Colombian man extradited to the Eastern District of Virginia pleaded guilty today for his involvement in the kidnap and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James Terry Watson in Bogotà, Colombia, on June 20, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Heath Powers, 33, of Plattsburgh, was arrested on Aug. 11, 2014, and charged by complaint with production of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent-in-Charge Andrew W. Vale. Following an initial...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia,September 4, 2014-Nature is around every corner, especially in the Bluestone River Gorge. Explore life and history with a ranger on a guided hike in the Bluestone River gorge onSaturday, September 6from10:00 am -11:30 am. This leisurely, river-side walk is a fun way to experience...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Thomas Bettis, 53, of Tehachapi, charging him with two counts of receipt and distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: OREGON CITY, OR -The McLoughlin House Unit of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site presents its 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service is proposing a permanent federal prohibition on three historically illegal predator hunting practices in Alaska’s national preserves.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Roberto Rivera-Ortiz, 27, a resident of the New York City area, appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington on a charge of alien smuggling. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered that Rivera-Ortiz be temporarily detained pending another hearing on September 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Denzel Watson of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced today for aiding and abetting the making of false statements in the attempted acquisition of a firearm. Chief United States District Judge Christina Reiss, sitting in Burlington, sentenced Watson to a four-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release, which includes four months of location monitoring.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Steve Roberts, selected as the Chief of Interpretation & Education for Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas National Monuments, comes to St. Augustine from Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio, where he served as the Field Operations Supervisor for Interpretation, Education and Visitor Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A Crooksville, Ohio man has admitted to threatening to injure officers of the Lee County, Virginia Sherriff’s Office during a hearing this week in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Angela Thicklin (f/k/a Angela Stanback Kinlaw) has been indicted for allegedly conspiring with Raytosha Elliott, a former contracting official with the Georgia Department of Defense, to obtain contracts in exchange for illegal kickbacks.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - As part of President Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge, the Energy Department recognized the University of Utah today for its leadership in energy efficiency and for reducing energy use by 40 percent in a historic campus building, saving the University $57,000 a year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that KENNETH FREDERICK CALVO was sentenced this week in the District Court of Guam by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, to 108 months incarceration, and three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT M. FAIELLA, a/k/a “BTCKing," an underground Bitcoin exchanger, and CHARLIE SHREM, formerly the Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of a Bitcoin exchange company, both pled guilty today before...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service is proposing a permanent federal prohibition on three historically illegal predator hunting practices in Alaska's national preserves.
