News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota announced the indictment of DAVID BLAINE WELLIVER, 55, for defrauding investors in the Dblaine Fund, a mutual fund for which WELLIVER acted as investment adviser, of at least $1.2 million. The defendant is scheduled to make an initial appearance on Sept. 3, 2015, in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that United States District Judge Shelly Dick sentenced JOCK R. JONES, 38, formerly of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for carjacking an East Baton Rouge Parish School System school bus driver, using a firearm in furtherance of the carjacking, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: A Miami resident was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Darrin P. Gayles for her participation in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme. Melissa Pearl Davis (“Davis,") 32, was sentenced to 48 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $219,721.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: WICHITA KAN. - An escapee from an Oklahoma prison who was arrested with a gun in Kansas was sentenced Thursday to 53 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. The sentence will be served consecutively to his prison term in Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Lake Mead National Recreation Area will celebrate the 99th birthday of the National Park Service by waiving its normal entrance fee of $10 Aug. 25. Birthday cake will be available at the visitor center, starting at 1 p.m. followed by a ranger chat.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Grover Crossland, Resident Agent in Charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), announced today the unsealing of a two-count Indictment charging multiple defendants with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Robert Crichlow, 37, was indicted in U.S. District Court in Springfield on one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and one count of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Egwolo Wilfred Otete, age 31, of formerly of Jacksonville, Florida and Beltsville, Maryland today, to 61 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for check and credit card fraud schemes with over 250...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced that $25,189 in additional federal funds has been awarded to the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office to fund equipment for law enforcement, with the goal of preventing and controlling crime and increasing officer safety. The grant funds are supplied by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (“BJA"), which is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (“OJP").
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will release additional water from Trinity Reservoir for the lower Klamath River to help protect returning adult fall run Chinook salmon from a disease outbreak and mortality. Supplemental flows from Lewiston Dam would commence on August 21 and extend into late September.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that JORDAN WAYNE PARKS, age 24, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: LIZETTE RICHARDSON APPOINTED SUPERINTENDENT AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Department of Defense contractor PoleZero Corporation, owned by Dover Corporation since 2007, has agreed to pay the United States $2,800,000 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company caused false claims to be submitted to the Department of Air Force for communications equipment.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
Release: USDA, in cooperation with the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), is now accepting applications from candidates in three Asian countries for 2016 Cocoa Borlaug Fellowships. The FAS Global Cocoa Initiative, under the auspices of the Borlaug Fellowship Program, provides fellows with skills and knowledge to help...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced three Orlando residents for robbery and using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Malcolm Jamal Ward (23), Stanley Valentin (20), and Javier Tyson Farrar (21) were each sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in federal prison. The Court also ordered them to pay $5,637.42 in restitution. Valentin and Farrar pleaded guilty on April 28, 2015. Ward pleaded guilty on May 4, 2015.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Lisa Mensah is in Great Falls, Montana this week and will meet with the congressional delegation to announce new Rural Development investments of more than $11.4 million in businesses and infrastructure and $19.8 in housing assistance in Montana, all in just the last 30 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Five individuals were charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with distributing oxycodone throughout the North Shore.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: PAINESVILLE, Ohio - A 23-year-old machine operator making nuts and bolts suffered a partial amputation of his right middle finger when it was caught in a machine at a Painesville manufacturer. He had only three weeks' experience with the equipment when the injury occurred.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An East Brunswick, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for sharing images of child sexual abuse from his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
