News from April 2015
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Capitol Reef 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 yesterday 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 1, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted a Monroe County man late yesterday on charges of distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) provides a variety of planning and environmental documents to help guide management of park projects. The Planning, Environment, & Public Comment (PEPC) website allows the public to select active NPS projects around the nation and participate in the planning process, including projects Padre Island National Seashore.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Palm Beach Fla., has been sentenced in federal court to six months in prison, one year supervised release and a fine of $50,000 on his conviction of filing false income tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a criminal complaint charging SEAN PENONCELLO, 41, with production of child pornography.1 PENONCELLO was ordered detained pending trial after a hearing today before Magistrate Judge Brisbois in United States District Court in Duluth, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Lisabeth Melahn, age 53, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 26, 2015 on charges of filing false income tax returns and structuring cash deposits to evade reporting requirements, announced United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven A. Osborne. Melahn is scheduled to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge on April 10, 2015 to respond to the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 30 and 31, 2015, U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake sentenced five defendants to prison for stealing more than $11 million through an elaborate advance-fee scam. Judge Wake sentenced Steven Thomas Brewer of Dallas, TX, to 15 years plus eight months of imprisonment; Joel Stephen Cutulle...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Demond Pinkney, a/k/a “Cal," age 30, of Baltimore, today to 121 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possesses with the intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Annual Spruce Hill Works Hike. Date: April 14th, 2015. Time: 9:00 am. Location: Spruce Hill parking lot. Fees: No Fees. Hike Difficulty: Moderately difficult, uphill, uneven terrain on plateau. Join a park ranger for a spring hike at Spruce Hill! Situated in the scenic Paint Valley, a hike up Spruce Hill...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: A former respiratory therapist at a Toledo hospital was indicted for obtaining individually identifiable health information and unauthorized access of a protected computer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An attorney from Vienna, Virginia, who failed to pay his taxes for three years and instead spent hundreds of thousands on personal expenses for himself and his family, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison followed by three years of supervised release for willful failure to pay federal income taxes. The court also ordered him to pay $451,955 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: WICHITA KAN. - Two people who operated a business called Q Massage at 3833 W. 13th in Wichita were indicted Wednesday on federal charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Inmate Michael Vaught Assaulted With the Intent to Commit Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Frank Aquila, 76, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of fraud involving a scheme to defraud the Buffalo Educational Support Team (BEST), a union representing approximately 900 teacher’s aides and assistants in the City of Buffalo School District, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: On March 26, 2015, Michael A. Boyt, Sr., 42, of Marion, Ill., was sentenced for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting information related to the legality, cost, and feasibility of the agency’s proposed rule banning certain refrigerants.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A Tyler resident, along with his Houston co-conspirator, have been sentenced to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Public Invited to Help Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee Chart a Path to the Future.
