News from August 2015
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Washington - The National Park Service has cleared the way for the transformation of Franklin Park (also known as Franklin Square) into an active, flexible, sustainable and historic urban park, finding that this effort will not adversely impact the natural or cultural resources of the park, which dates to 1832.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA -Sammie Lee Underwood III, 22, of Panama City, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a loaded.380 caliber pistol. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 38-year-old woman from Corpus Christi has been taken into custody upon the filing of a criminal complaint alleging she produced and distributed child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The complaint alleges Christina Cortez produced the graphic images while working at a daycare facility in Corpus Christi and further distributed them to Matthew Harbin, 29, of Brownsville. Harbin is also charged in the complaint.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. -This month local high school students are constructing a new trail at the Malvern Hill Battlefield unit of Richmond National Battlefield Park.The students are part of a special program called the Youth Conservation Corps, and their effort will provide visitor access to an important area...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Michigan man has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months imprisonment and three years supervised release on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KEITH CANTORE, age 35, of Monee, Illinois, was sentenced today for violating the Lacey Act by attempting to purchase threatened turtles that were captured in violation of state law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Robert V.A. Harra, age 66, of Wilmington, David Gibson, age 58, of Wilmington, William North, age 55 of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Kevyn Rakowski, age 61, of Lakewood Ranch, Florida, were indicted today for their respective roles in concealing from the Federal Reserve, the Securities...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Labeling failed to disclose that “Potion 9" contained an ingredient known to metabolize into what is commonly referred to as a “club drug" or “date rape drug.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 28-year-old Guatemalan man living in Beaumont, Texas has pleaded guilty to federal child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews sentenced Michael Nolting, age 25, of Newark, Delaware to 36 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Nolting had pled guilty to making false statements to a licensed firearms dealer in the acquisition of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a an indictment charging Herman E. Aguirre, 41, of Brea, CA, Troy R. Gillon, 41, of Lockport, NY, Darryl J. Williams, 43, of Williamsville, NY, Maulana Lucas, 41, Niagara Falls, NY, and Shirley Grigsby...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Businessman Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Misbrand a Product for Human Consumption, Money Laundering.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today sent a letter to the Education Department's (ED) Office of Inspector General (OIG) requesting an examination...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., was joined by seven other members of the committee today in introducing a bill to keep families together by allowing the nation’s largest child welfare funding stream to support front-end family services to reduce unnecessary foster care stays.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: On Monday afternoon, Aug. 3, Teton Interagency firefighters responded to a report of a smoke column rising from the Snake River floodplain, just west of the Triangle X Ranch in Grand Teton National Park. During a fast-moving thunderstorm, a bolt of lightning struck a single blue spruce and ignited...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Three Defendants to Forfeit 165 Firearms, More than 25,000 Rounds of Ammunition and 6 Silencers.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) issued the following statement today upon release of the Senate Finance Committee’s bipartisan report on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting scandal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, along with United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and New York State Police Superintendent Joseph A. D'Amico are pleased to announce 21 defendants from the Utica and Rome area were arrested on...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Mark Cooper, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, in a conspiracy involving more than 2,000 counterfeit monthly passes for Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Cooper is charged with...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Lateef Fisher, age 37, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, today to 13 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin or 28 grams or more of cocaine base in Hagerstown, Maryland, and the surrounding counties in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
