News from August 2015
By DOL Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Employer name: H & S Manufacturing Co. Inc., Marshfield, Wisconsin
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will celebrate the National Park Service turning 99 years old at its "Art in the Park" reception on Saturday, September 5, at the Bandy Creek Visitor Center. The reception will start at 5:00 p.m. (ET).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An El Dorado company was ordered Wednesday to pay $97,612 in restitution and a $10,000 fine for mishandling waste chemicals, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. The company also must pay a $400 special assessment and serve three years on probation to include participating in a compliance and ethics program.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Four high school students from Morgan County recently finished the summer working on a Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) team at the Obed Wild and Scenic River. The crew members were selected from Morgan Central High School and included Franklin Bunch, Savannah Christian, Cydney Seiber and Zachary Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: An Indian River County resident was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez in Fort Pierce, Florida on Aug. 25, 2015, to 24 years and 5 months in prison for enticing minors over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A fourth soldier, formerly on active duty with the U.S. Army based at Fort Hood, has admitted she is guilty of alien smuggling charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Yashira Marie Perez-Morales, 25, of Killeen, appeared in court today and admitted she smuggled undocumented aliens pass the immigration checkpoint located at Sarita.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: In today's increasingly complex manufacturing operations, Murphy's Law is only an unexpected hiccup away-anything from a data error to an errant vibration to a dulled cutting tool can undermine production. But in a future with fully effective sensing and information technologies that anticipate and avert potentially harmful process spasms, everything that might go wrong, simply could not.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted in federal court today of illegally possessing firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -National Park Service Rangers are investigating the discharge of a firearm in Grand Teton National Park. A 27-year old man from Star Valley reported that he discharged a hand gun during an encounter with three bears near the Jackson Lake Dam in Grand Teton National Park on the morning of Tuesday...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio, 44-year-old Fernando Jose De Leon, former Assistant Development Services Director of the Land Development Division within the City of San Antonio’s Planning and Development Services Department, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving city...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A 63-year-old Missouri City man has been indicted on federal child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The three-count indictment charges Louis Clifford Smith Jr. with one count each of receipt, access with intent to view and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Fred Suchan, 33, of West Seneca, NY, pleaded guilty to distribution of oxycodone, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two men who were arrested last year as part of a joint law enforcement operation to catch child predators in southern Nevada, “Operation Protect the Powerless," have been convicted in federal court of sex trafficking and prostitution crimes for transporting two minor girls from Nevada to southern California to work as prostitutes, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 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 Ernest Oprecht, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 54 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a narcotics trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican national pleaded guilty to charges that he reentered the United States multiple times illegally.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Nebraska man convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet was sentenced on Aug. 18, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith today announced that Alkis Nakos (“Nakos"), age 36, was convicted by a federal jury of operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 848, and of engaging in a conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, MDMA (a/k/a Ecstasy) and in excess of 1000 kilograms of marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CHELBI GEORGE, age 42, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, pled guilty to POSSESSION OF A COUNTERFEIT OBLIGATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 472.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Marblemount, WA - Park officials have closed a portion of the Cascade Pass Trail from the junction with the Sahale Arm Trail to the junction of the Upper Stehekin Valley Trail and the Flat Creek Trail due to the Glory Fire. Pelton Basin, Basin Creek and Cottonwood camps are closed as well as the Horseshoe Basin Trail. The Trapper Lake area is also closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: In Waco today, 28-year-old Anthony Wayne Farrior of Paducah, KY, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for agreeing to transport women for prostitution announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
