News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - A leader of the “Southside Gang" located in York, Pa. pled guilty to racketeering and drug trafficking conspiracy today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that COURTNEY BYRD, also known as “Buck," 31, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of distributing cocaine base (“crack cocaine").
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Marcus Dewayne Thompson, 28, and his wife Robin Thompson, 24, from Park Hills, Missouri, were charged by a criminal complaint, unsealed on Aug. 24, 2015, in federal court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for one count of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud, or coercion, and one count of conspiracy to do the same, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducted its second annual auction of Federal helium at the Amarillo Field Office, under the terms of the Helium Stewardship Act (Act) of 2013. A total of 300 MMcf from the Federal Helium Reserve near Amarillo was offered, representing 25 percent of the total volume the BLM will make available from the Reserve in Fiscal Year 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Pursuant to Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Daniel Lester Jackson (34, Brevard County) has pleaded guilty to two counts of producing child pornography. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Fredrick Alston Thomas, 35, of Elyria, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: LANCASTER, Ohio - Two years after agreeing to reduce workers' exposure to lead and cadmium, a Lancaster battery recycling facility continues to expose workers to dangerously high airborne concentrations of the metals - a leading cause of workplace illness - which can cause long-term damage to the central nervous, urinary, blood and reproductive systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of SCOTT STAMMERS, a citizen of the United Kingdom, to conspiring to import 100 kilograms of North Korean-produced methamphetamine into the United States. STAMMERS was arrested in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Robert B. Ray, 52, of Lorain, with receiving and distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and with possessing child pornography, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Guatemala was indicted on Aug. 25, 2015, by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Illegal Re-Entry after Deportation and Failing to Register as a Sex Offender, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Sun Commodities Inc., operating in Pompano Beach, Fla., posted a $75,000 surety bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Shanksville, Pa. -U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will deliver remarks at the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial Visitor Center and the annual 9/11 observance, respectively. The ceremonies on September 10 and 11 honor the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that William Leslie Toler, 29, of Logan, West Virginia entered a guilty plea to distribution of oxymorphone, commonly known as “Opana". During his plea hearing, Toler admitted that on April 10, 2014, he sold a 40 mg Opana pill to a confidential informant working with law enforcement for $65.00. The drug sale took place at a residence new Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two Williamsport men were indicted today by a federal grand jury for narcotics trafficking and possession of firearms in furtherance of their drug trade.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 26, 2015, Charles Bryan Ewert, age 36, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 84 months in prison for being a felon in possession of eight firearms and for making false statements during the purchase of a firearm, announced United States...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California -.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today dedicated its new National Airport Pavement & Materials Research Center at the William J. Hughes Technical Center at Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -A Logan County man who wrote threatening letters while incarcerated was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Kelly Gerald Crosby, 32, previously pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to mailing threatening communications.
