News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced today that two Milwaukee men were indicted for the Aug. 12, 2015 attempted armed carjacking at 76th Street and W. Layton Avenue in Greenfield. Devonte Hayes, age 19, and Norman Howard, age 18, were charged with one count of attempted motor vehicle robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: During a Red Flag Warning on Friday, Aug. 21, a previously undiscovered lightning-ignited fire began to burn actively about a mile east of Highway 89 in the Spread Creek and Wolff Ridge area of Grand Teton National Park. The Wolff Fire had been smoldering in the interior of a tree that had been struck by lightning six days earlier. The fire was controlled on August 23 and an engine crew continues to monitor the fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a York County woman was sentenced today to 5 years’ probation by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo for theft of public funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: efield, W.Va. -United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a federal inmate was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber in Bluefield. Rico Joy, 34, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for possession of contraband by an inmate. Joy pled guilty in July of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dujuan Harris, 35, of Providence, R.I., has been ordered detained in federal custody on charges that he allegedly sex trafficked a 17-year-old female from Texas, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin, Providence Police Chief Hugh T. Clements, Jr., and Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security (HSI) Investigations for New England.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Former Investment Banking Analyst and Two Friends Charged in Insider Trading Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Hochul was joined by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, United States Marshal Charles Salina, NYS Police Captain Steven Nigrelli, Drug Enforcement Administration Resident Agent in Charge John Flickinger and Deputy Buffalo Police Commissioner Kim Beatty as the wrecking ball began to tear down these neighborhood eyesores.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NELSON DIAZ, 26, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for planning to conduct an armed robbery of narcotics stash house.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - More than 1,000 law enforcement, public health officials, health care professionals, attorneys, drug court representatives, medical students, state, tribal and local government staff, community leaders, recovering addicts and their families from across Minnesota are meeting to address the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a former Concordia Parish couple pleaded guilty Friday to their roles in a scheme to steal Veterans Affairs benefits over a 10-year period.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - The Apgar Lookout Trail is now open. The trail was previously closed for public safety while a National Park Service communications tower and building were removed and replaced on Apgar Mountain. The Apgar Lookout tower is still closed. Apgar Mountain is located on the west side of Glacier National Park overlooking Lake McDonald.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Located in Lorton, Virginia, BLM Eastern States' Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) offers 800 acres of forest and meadows, 2 fishing ponds, 13.4 miles of hiking trails, 7 miles of horseback riding trails and 6.6 miles of mountain biking trails. Additionally, Meadowood provides year-round...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Aug. 25, 2015, Nicole Renee Contreras, age 33 of Grand Island, was sentenced to 10 years (120 months) in prison for her role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging the CEO of Rentboy.com, Jeffrey Hurant, and six Rentboy.com employees with conspiring to violate the Travel Act by promoting prostitution. The defendants were arrested this morning and are scheduled to appear before United States Magistrate Judge Marilyn Go at the United States Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A McCalla woman, already serving time for attempting to defraud the Gulf Coast oil spill claims fund, pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges of food stamp fraud and evading income taxes. U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Today in Minneapolis, more than 1,000 law enforcement, public health officials, health care professionals, attorneys, drug court representatives, medical students, state, tribal and local government staff, community leaders, recovering addicts and their families from across Minnesota are meeting to address...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Santa Barbara-area physician who wrote numerous prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients" - many of whom were drug addicts, and some of whom died from drug overdose - was convicted today of 79 federal drug trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Writer Ellen Orleans from Boulder, Colorado, will continue to highlight this year's Art in the Park Program at Rocky Mountain National Park with presentations held Wednesdays, August 26 and September 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - John Paul Kill, the former operator of Appeal Insurance Agency, LLC, has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for insurance fraud. Kill illegally collected over $3.7 million from nearly 800 trucking companies nationwide for selling/brokering fictitious cargo insurance policies.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: RIO DE JANEIRO - More than 30 law enforcement and government officials from the United States and Brazil completed a four-day bilateral export control and border security training program Thursday hosted in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
