News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHRISTIE ROBINSON, 39, of LaPlace, was charged today in a four-count Indictment with filing false statements on tax returns and three counts of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced James Bryan Swoll, a/k/a “Squid," (37, Ocala) to 10 years in federal prison for distributing five kilograms or more of cocaine and money laundering. He was also ordered to forfeit $350,000 worth of real property that was traceable to the offenses. Swoll pleaded guilty in November 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the release of guidance from the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that will facilitate automatic enrollment in and contributions to 401 (k) and similar retirement plans by improving the process for correcting errors to make it easier for businesses to maintain these plans for their workers...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was charged in a federal indictment today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 2, 2015 - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Louie Gohmert (R-TX) sent a letter to Director of the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSM) Joseph Pizarchik...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Visitors to Acadia National Park will have the opportunity to enjoy two car-free mornings on Park Loop Road in 2015.The National Park Service will close Park Loop Road on Mount Desert Island to private vehicles from midnight to noon on Saturday, May 16, and Saturday, September 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Patrick Jackson, a former janitorial services manager for the DeKalb County Government and Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC), has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, admitting that he used his position as a public official to obtain benefits for himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A Balch Springs, Texas, man who, along with his three co-defendants, pleaded guilty to their roles in a hydrocodone and alprazolam distribution conspiracy, was sentenced today, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KIM PARISH, age 51, a resident of Picayune, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a two-count Bill of Information charging her with wire fraud and bank fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Ajo, Arizona -The U.S. Border Patrol Ajo Station has increased its Horse Patrol Unit (HPU) with the recent graduation of agents through the class. The Ajo Station HPU patrols at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in an effort to reduce mechanized equipment in the wilderness. The horses are wild horses...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: An Avon man was sentenced more than 12 years in prison for robbing two banks in Elyria and calling in a bomb threat to Elyria High School, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A woman who was found to have more than 160 pounds of marijuana in her rental car on Christmas Day 2013, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 24 months in federal prison, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Defendant Sought to Open “Ice Nightclub" near Seattle Center to Launder Drug Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Guadalupe Nieves, Jr. was sentenced today to 42 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $444,687 for his role in a false tax refund scheme, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dewey McNair, 54 of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison for illegally exchanging food stamp benefits for cash at his West Philadelphia fish store, Bottom of the Sea. Dewey McNair is the owner of Lancaster Avenue Seafood Inc., which operated a seafood store...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) will lead a bipartisan congressional visit to the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain on April 9. This exploratory trip continues the committee’s years-long oversight of the administration’s termination of the project and will help inform Congress’ efforts to establish a workable, long-term nuclear waste solution.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - In advance of next year’s National Park Service Centennial, the Park Service and the National Park Foundation today kicked off a nationwide campaign to encourage people to learn about and connect with the 407 national parks by launching a one-of-a-kind interactive installation that invites them to share their stories about their favorite parks and discover new parks and public lands they might want to visit.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park joins parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and share their stories online at FindYourPark.com. Launched Monday by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, Find Your Park is a public awareness and education campaign celebrating the milestone centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016 and setting the stage for its second century of service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Chris Ross, 51, of New York City, and Kimberly Kuncz, 45, of Montpelier were arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy in connection with an Indictment returned by the Federal Grand Jury charging Ross and Kuncz with conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Camala Peterson, 40, of Torrington, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on April 2, 2015, for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Peterson was arrested in Torrington, Wyoming. She received 41 months imprisonment, to be followed by four years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $300.00 fine and a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation.
