News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on April 10, 2015, Lee Jay Manning, 28, of Barre, Vermont, was sentenced to 76 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he used a handgun to rob a Cumberland Farms convenience store in Barre on Feb. 12, 2014. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Manning serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of April 13. Members will review draft bills to protect affordable energy, improve chemical safety, and stop abusive patent practices and will also discuss post-acute health care delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The leader and another member of a massive identity theft tax refund fraud scheme have been convicted of conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft charges following a ten day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: A Jamaican man pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida in Fort Lauderdale to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the Justice Department announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Ajo, Arizona -On March 19th, staff from the Reserva de la Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar (Pinacate), a Sister Park with Organ Pipe Cactus NM;Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument;the Arizona Game and Fish Department;the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- The results of the April 2015 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 35-year-old long haul truck driver, who most recently resided in Carrollton, Texas, was sentenced this morning on a child pornography conviction, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Savannah, GA - Sheryl Renita Wilson, 44, of Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced last week to 57 months in prison by United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. after pleading guilty to her role in an identity theft and tax return scam. Last month, Wilson’s partner-in-crime, Bryan Chester Coney, 32, also of Savannah, was sentenced to 61 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Marico T. Bratcher, 42, from Cahokia, Illinois, was sentenced on April 10, 2015, in federal court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Ajo, Arizona -For the past three months employees from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument have been spreading the word that the monument is open and a great destination for visitors of all types. The message that there are plenty of recreation opportunities at the monument and it is safe got people...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa sent out today reminders to summer camps concerning the need to make reasonable accommodations to accept children with disabilities.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Randy King reports that the park is no longer accepting reservation requests for hiking the Wonderland Trail (either the full circuit or large portions) for the summer 2015 hiking season due to overwhelming and unprecedented demand.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: KIMBERLY - In honor of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument’s 40th anniversary celebration, the National Park Service and Discover Your Northwest are sponsoring an art and photography contest.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking bids on a 10-year concession contract to provide transportation and other major visitor services in Denali National Park and Preserve. The proposed contract will have a term of Jan. 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2025.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Victim Was Kidnapped and Executed. WASHINGTON - Anthony Gray, 37, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a prison term of 38 years to life for the July 2000 murder of a government witness, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent H. Cohen, Jr., Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announced today that the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture have made selections for three open positions on its nine-member National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. June Sewing of Cedar City, Utah, has been re-appointed for the category of wild horse and burro...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Bradford Lamar Daley, of Phenix City, Alabama, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud and tax fraud, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. In addition to the prison sentence, the court ordered Daley to pay over $5.8 million.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Temporary permits are now available to collect downed firewood along roadsides at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Due to the recent February ice storm, there is significant available downed wood in road corridors in certain areas of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Thomas Sean Tinsley, age 29, of Glen Burnie, Maryland today to 11 years in prison, followed by 35 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor. Tinsley is a registered sex offender, having previously been convicted of having sex with a minor female.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jason Paul Tijerina, 30, of Victoria, has been ordered to prison for the sexual exploitation of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Tijerina pleaded guilty in December 2014.
