News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen A. Lynch, who handled the case, stated that on July 17, 2013, Alvarado entered a jewelry store located in Amherst, NY and offered a counterfeit “pre-owned" Rolex watch for sale. The defendant presented identification and a social security card as well as a local address...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: In celebration of the National Park's upcoming centennial, the Obed Wild and Scenic River, in partnership with bowyer Travis Gosnell, announces another primitive bow workshop on Friday evening, Aug. 14, 2015, at the Obed Visitor Center, 208 N. Maiden Street, Wartburg, Tennessee. The program begins...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER T. AGRITELLY, 31, formerly of New Britain, Conn., and Tempe, Ariz., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, for violating federal sex offender registration laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Pharmacy chain CVS Health Corp. has agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve the United States’ allegations that several of its Rhode Island stores violated the federal Controlled Substances Act by filling invalid prescriptions and maintaining deficient records, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: Demetrius Booker, 28, of Centerville, Illinois, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Booker was also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment, a $250 fine, and to serve 1 year of supervised release following imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cary Dailey, 26, and Lance Demarco Harris, 22, both of Detroit, Michigan, were sentenced in federal court today for prescription painkiller trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of failure to register under SORNA, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: The second in a nationwide series of listening sessions on the federal coal program will be held Tuesday, Aug. 11, in Billings. Mont.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A husband and wife have been ordered to prison along with two others for their roles in a conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens within the U.S. by means of a motor vehicle, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jaime Brewster Sanchez, 40, and his wife Gabriela Garcia...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: What steps has the FAA taken to relieve the problem of controller fatigue?
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that Brent A. Garrett, 38 of Bluffton, Indiana was charged with knowingly possessing firearms, including machineguns and other firearms, which were not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Pharmacy chain CVS Health Corp. has agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve the United States’ allegations that several of its Rhode Island stores violated the federal Controlled Substances Act by filling invalid prescriptions and maintaining deficient records, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -DONOVAN GENE MERCER, 45, of Noble, Oklahoma, was sentenced on Friday to serve 265 months in federal prison for viewing and attempting to view child pornography, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: The Daphne Police Department, along with the Mobile FBI and The United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama, announce they will be hosting Successful Tips for Youth on Law Enforcement Encounters, also known as S.T.Y.L.E. The S.T.Y.L.E program will take place at the Macedonia...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- According to two reports released today by the Energy Department, the U.S. wind energy industry continued growing at an impressive rate in 2014, further solidifying America’s position as a global leader in wind energy. Wind power is a key component of the President’s all-of-the-above...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Former Hillview, Kentucky Police Chief Glenn A. Caple was sentenced today in U.S. District Court, by Senior District Judge Charles R. Simpson III, to 24 months’ probation and ordered to pay a $5000.00 fine for making a false statement to federal agents when questioned about his knowledge and involvement in moving evidence found on an elected official’s property on January 4, 2012, announced U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: For the second year in a row, the Platte River mouth will not be dredged to deepen its channel into Lake Michigan during the fall fishing season. With lake levels up and funding down, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Lakeshore) is not planning to direct scarce resources toward dredging. In addition, the Lakeshore was hard hit by the August 2 windstorm, and its equipment operators will be directed toward storm recovery efforts for the next few months.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former resident of Bergen County, New Jersey, was arrested this morning for allegedly conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, and Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel of the FBI’s Newark Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Jose Antonio Reyna-Chavez (Reyna), 19, from Michoacán, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a convicted felon originally from Detroit, Michigan was sentenced in federal court in Huntington today to seventy months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm. Joseph Lovell Cook, 22, previously pled guilty to possessing...
