News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Charleston, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Keith Alan Franklin, 27, of Waynesville, N.C. was sentenced today to 27 months in prison on theft charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also ordered Franklin to serve three years of supervised release and to pay $475,000 as restitution to Harrah’s Cherokee Casino (Harrah’s).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: More than $5 million taken in scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William Thomas Stine, 39, of Martinsburg, was convicted of heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICKY SUE COHRAN, 53, of Villa Rica, Georgia, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to stealing numerous identities while operating a “fictitious employer scheme" that defrauded state unemployment insurance programs of approximately $125,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - An Aurora man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges he attempted to travel overseas to join a jihadist militant group in Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: Two New York City Residents Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: Transition of U.S. Park Police Public Information Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for his role in a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: Gang Leader Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Violent Racketeering-Related Crimes and Shooting at Federal Agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to 63 months in federal prison for a firearm violation, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - In anticipation of the heavy rain and wind forecast with the arrival of Hurricane Hilda, all backcountry areas in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park will be closed as of 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12 until it is safe to reopen them. No backcountry permits will be issued until park staff reassess the storm's impact.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On August 6, 2015, David Leon Breneman, a 49 year-old resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 30 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a six-day trial, a federal jury found Erik Hermann Green, 33, of Roseville, guilty today of five counts of wire fraud in a mortgage fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The trial was held before United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A leader of the Phantom Outlaw Motorcycle Club, who was also a member of the Vice Lords street gang, was sentenced to 40 years in prison today for violent racketeering-related crimes and shooting at federal agents.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office are seeking information about the cause of Sunday’s fire near Cottonwood Pass in Eagle County.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: Kawaihae, HI -Due to the heavy rain and wind forecast with the arrival of Hurricane Hilda, the 43rd annual Ho'oku'ikahi Establishment Day Hawaiian Cultural Festival, scheduled for this weekend, Aug. 15 and 16 at Pu'ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site, is canceled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: Mississippi Couple Charged with Conspiracy and Attempt to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his role in a scheme to illegally transport firearms into Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Starkville, Mississippi, couple was arrested over the weekend for allegedly conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
