News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal jury found a Texas man guilty late Friday of attempting to use a child to make a sexually explicit video and of persuading and convincing the mother to allow sexual exploitation of the child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Detroit-Area Physician Pleads Guilty for Role in $5.7 Million Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney George C. Burgasser, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, on Dec. 2, 2014, the U.S. Marshals Violent Felony Fugitive Task Force encountered the defendant while looking for a fugitive defendant. Officers searched Vincent’s 20th Street residence and discovered a.38 caliber revolver. As a prior felon, the defendant was prohibited from legally possessing a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Russian Nuclear Energy Official Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Coulee Dam, WA -- At 12:00pm, September 1st, 2015, Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area will begin reopening some campgrounds, boat ramps, and day-use areas in the North District of the park. These actions are due to a reduction of wildfire activity in the northeast portion of the park. Some areas...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward H. White, who is handling the case, stated that Hecht was arrested along with co-defendants Jose Escalera and Giovanni Cotto for retaliating against a witness who testified in the matter of United States v. Jose Martinez, et al.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced that $214,481 in additional grant funds will be made available to the Tohono O’odham Nation to support, maintain, and refine jurisdiction-wide SORNA programs and functions. These funds will assist in improving victim notification services and...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: The entire length of the Pacific Crest Trail within Crater Lake National Park is now open. The section of the trail from the park’s north boundary to the junction with Lightning Springs Trail had been closed because of hazardous conditions related to the National Creek Complex fires. Successful burn...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Crews have succeeded in re-opening several popular areas on the park's west side, following a storm that brought wind speeds in excess of 80 miles per hour and downed numerous trees and limbs. Today, roads and campgrounds were re-opened in the Hoh and Quinault Rain Forests and rangers expect to open Kalaloch campground by the end of the day tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh on a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN MOORE, 26, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport for his role in a smash-and-grab robbery of a Stamford jewelry store in November 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Arrested following a high-speed pursuit and standoff with law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that DAVID M. JOHNSON, 27, of Enfield, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to committing the armed robbery of the First Niagara Bank in Windsor on Jan. 10, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing six Columbia banks, using a bicycle as his getaway vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Baljit Singh Rehal, a/k/a Joel Rehal, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester to an extortion charge.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Julena Campbell or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. Fall comes early in Yellowstone. The sight of steam rising up from the ground in the chilly morning hours, the sound of bugling elk in the crisp evening air, and the feel of fleece against your skin as you dress for a day hike, all herald the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Danny Ray Evans, Jr., 26, of Reading, PA, was sentenced today to 225 months in prison for production of child pornography. Evans, who pleaded guilty to the charges, engaged in a series of “Skype" webcam discussions with at least three different 12 and 13-year old girls during which he threatened and...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Jenny Lake Rangers rescued a climber from the Middle Teton on Saturday afternoon.At approximately 12 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received a call that 21-year old Justin Bodrero of Moran, Wyoming, fell about 100 feet on a snowfield and another 100 feet into a boulder field on the Middle Teton.The initial report indicated the climber fell while descending the Southwest Couloir of the Middle Teton, and was unconscious.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two men who participated in a heroin conspiracy between 2012 and 2014 pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Kenneth E. Baxter, 25, of Detroit entered a guilty plea to distributing heroin. Coty S. Richardson, 24, of South Point, entered...
