News from August 2015
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Join Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park as we celebrate the work and accomplishments of the Wright brothers. The carnival also provides a unique way to explore part of the Miami Valley's aviation history. Aircraft scheduled to appear on display this year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -The National Park Service (NPS) will celebrate the 99th anniversary of its founding on Tuesday, August 25. To celebrate Founder's Day, Grand Teton National Park will waive entrance fees, as will all other national park units across the country. Special programs, listed below, will also be offered throughout the day in Grand Teton. The event marks the beginning of a year-long celebration of the NPS Centennial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Aug. 21, 2015. SAN DIEGO -Sarah Elizabeth Martin, a registered nurse from San Diego, was sentenced today to three years of probation, a $1,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Defendant Planned to Sell Victim into Sex Slavery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Terrence Starks, 37, from Bunker Hill, Illinois, was indicted by a federal grand jury for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. If convicted, Starks faces up to twenty years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and up to three years supervised release on the wire fraud count and a mandatory consecutive two year prison sentence for the aggravated identity theft count.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to reproducing and distributing without permission millions of infringing digital copies of copyrighted works, including copies of popular songs and albums before they were commercially available.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Crenshaw, 62, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday, a federal grand jury indicted Puerto Rico Police Officer Claudé Luis Merced-Aponte, 49, for possession and receipt of child pornography, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Today, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) arrested him without incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Second Woman Also is Sentenced to Incarceration For Her Role in Events Before and After the Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner and CEO of a sports memorabilia auction house was sentenced Thursday to 20 months in federal prison for using phony bids to fraudulently inflate the price of his company’s listings at auction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal prison guard in Petersburg, Virginia pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling cigarettes to inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The last man involved in a massive marijuana distribution organization has been sentenced to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ricardo Jason Villeza, 41, is the last of eight defendants sentenced for their respective roles in the conspiracy. All men had previously entered guilty pleas in the case.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: The summer's winding down, it's back to school time, and back to the regular visitor hours for Morristown National Historical Park (NHP). Beginning on Aug. 30, 2015, the park will change back to the following hours of operation for visitor services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment Thursday against Jesus Gonzalez-Alvizo, 25, and Reimundo Arriaga-Arriaga, 37, residents of Mexico, charging them with conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, manufacture of marijuana, possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation today signed a Record of Decision selecting the preferred alternative proposed for the Northwest Area Water Supply Project (NAWS). The project is designed to deliver a bulk water supply to meet municipal and rural water needs of people in northwestern North Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - SB Medical Inc., and TC Medical Group, companies based in Toronto, Canada, and St. Michael, Barbados, were fined $45 million and required to forfeit another $30 million for orchestrating a multi-year conspiracy to smuggle misbranded prescription pharmaceuticals into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Former National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) police officer Christopher Bartley, age 41, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to attempting to manufacture methamphetamine in a laboratory room on the NIST campus on Saturday, July 18, 2015, which resulted in an explosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - A federal trial jury convicted Charles Heath Stewart, 42, of Grand Ridge, Florida, of producing and possessing child pornography. The verdict was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Chief District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis on Wednesday sentenced Gregory Williams, Jr., 24, of St. Croix, to 12 months in prison for Illegally Receiving a Firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Lewis also sentenced Williams to one year of supervised release and ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: Filed $656,000 in False Tax Returns.
