News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Christopher Saravello, 38, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for a scheme to extort drugs and money from drug dealers and drug buyers while working as a Philadelphia Police Officer. Saravello pleaded guilty on February 6, 2015 to one count of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act extortion and five counts of Hobbs Act extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - A Lincoln County man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Statesville to 180 months in federal prison for producing child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees also ordered Antony Alexander Gonzalez Solorzano, 28, of Lincolnton, N.C. to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three co-defendants pleaded guilty in federal court this week to aiding and abetting a fraudulent tax return preparation scheme that claimed nearly $340,000 in fraudulent income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Tyshawn McDade, also known as “S Dot" and “S Diddy," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 132 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced FRANCISCO ARROLLO-SILVA, 27, of Clayton, North Carolina, to 142 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and laundering monetary instruments. ARROLLO-SILVA previously pled guilty to these charges on Aug. 14, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Michael Alexander Hayes and Ranell Carter Jr., both 24, of Gainesville, Florida, with sex trafficking of a minor. Carter was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville, and Hayes was arraigned on August 6, 2015. The indictment was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Darryl Norris, age 36, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to robbing a video game store, and admitted to six other robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A man who was convicted at trial earlier this year for sending a “white powder" letter to a federal office in Greenville, Texas, was sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: The Stehekin community in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area is open of business. The nearby Wolverine wildfire and smoke have subsided and all services are open. Visitors are invited to take a plane or ferry from Chelan or Field's Point Landing for a day trip, or spend several days in one of a number...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: If you are wondering what the biologists, physical scientists, and archeologists at Kenai Fjords National Park do in the summertime, come read our park blog at.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Thursday, Aug. 20 at the Rio Blanco Fairgrounds, Sulphur Creek Rd, Meeker.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - Acting U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers, in conjunction with U. S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner (Eastern District of California); ND Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem; Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Richard Thornton (Minneapolis FBI), and Chief Greg Williamson, Bakersfield Police Department, announced the indictment of 22 individuals in western North Dakota and 7 defendants in Bakersfield, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that VANDALE THOMAS, age 41, a resident of Prairieville, was sentenced today after being convicted by a federal jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Melissa M. Marangola, who handled the case, stated that on March 1, 2015, law enforcement officers responded to 453 Hollenbeck Street in Rochester to investigate a possible burglary in progress. As officers approached the defendant, they learned he had an outstanding warrant on an unrelated...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted a local thoroughbred horse trainer on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Going-to-the-Sun-Road Night Closure Lifted. Reynolds Creek Fire Continues to Burn within Perimeter. WEST GLACIER, MONT. - The night closure on the east side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park has been lifted. The entire 52 miles of the Going-to-the-Sun Road are open to vehicle access.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Deverey Hasani-Jarod Kelley, age 25, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, today to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for the armed carjacking of a woman who was in labor and on her way to the hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the August 2015 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Waterworks Supplied Materials on Several Federally-Funded Contracts Where Invoices were “Passed Through" a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise in Violation of Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announces that a federal grand jury in Greenville returned a 22 count Second superseding Indictment (hereinafter “superseding Indictment") (attached) on Thursday, August 6, 2015.
