News from April 2015
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - In the past four months Alternative Break program volunteers removed over seven tons of marine debris from sea turtle nesting beaches in Biscayne National Park.Nearly 200 volunteers from sixteen universities and local organizations helped restore park beaches and greatly improve the chances of nesting success for threatened and endangered sea turtles.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a citizen of the Dominican Republic illegally residing in Hazleton has been charged with attempting to obtain a U.S. passport by false statements and with illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Demetrius Booker, 28, of East St. Louis, Illinois, pled guilty in United States District Court in East St. Louis, on April 29, 2015, to an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was convicted today for his role in three gunpoint carjackings and an attempted carjacking within a 10-day period, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Ruston woman was sentenced to two years of probation and a $1,000 fine for cashing money orders without posting payments to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Robert Fitzpatrick, former Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the FBI’s Boston Field Office, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on six counts of perjury and six counts of obstruction of justice in connection with his testimony at the 2013 trial of James “Whitey" Bulger. Fitzpatrick was an ASAC in Boston between 1981 and 1986 and supervised the FBI’s organized crime squad in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Today, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced the appointment of Kenneth A. Polite, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, along with five other U.S. Attorneys, to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today released the second installment in its video series highlighting its Republican members. Today, U.S. Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, underscores his support for a commonsense approach to energy policy that makes good use of the nation’s vast and varied natural resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on April 27, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on April 27, 2015 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Robert Duane Moriarty, 36, and Sara Skan, 34, of Ketchikan, Alaska, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on April 21, 2015, on a single count of drug conspiracy. Moriarty and Skan were arraigned yesterday in U.S. District Court in Ketchikan before Chief Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Red Rock/Sloan Field Office announces the availability of the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Implementation Management Strategy which provides new management scenarios that meet the intent of the Resource Management Plan as well as projected visitation with an emphasis on extending the life of the special account funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant was Convicted of Accounting Fraud and Obstruction of Justice in Second Trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Vineyard Haven CPA was sentenced on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, for filing false tax returns in which he underreported more than $800,000 in income for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Jefferson County man on multiple charges of producing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Apr. 30. 2015, Dr. Jerome Sherard, 60, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison and Charles Larmore 67, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 156 months in federal prison by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, U.S. District Judge. Upon release...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Thirteen current and former law enforcement officers and two other individuals have been indicted and arrested for allegedly protecting narcotics shipments and cash proceeds during transit along the east coast for what they believed was a large-scale drug trafficking organization that was actually an undercover operation by the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Defendants with prior felony convictions face potential life sentences if convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Gursharan Phagura, 39, and Harminder Phagura, 35, both residents of Yuba City, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Fire Island, New York -The National Park Service in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey and the State University of New York School of Environmental Science and Forestry fitted 15 female white-tailed deer with GPS-enabled radio tracking collars this past winter during the second year of a three-year White-tailed Deer Movement Study.
