News from August 2015
By DOL Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Aug. 19, 2015 BOS 2015-154. BOSTON - Before consumers get to choose products in the supermarket, workers in warehouses nationwide pack bulk quantities of merchandise onto wooden pallets and load them onto delivery trucks. The nature of this work puts the people who do it at risk for serious sprains, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Contractor Allegedly Failed to Perform Required Quality Control Reviews on Contracts For Background Investigations with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Devils Tower National Monument will host a Bat Festival August 29th, 1:00 -10:30 p.m. in the Picnic Area. The festival will feature demonstrations on how to build bat boxes, information booths, crafts, and activities for kids.There will also be door prizes, an inflatable cave, and guest presentations.Bat...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an indictment was returned late yesterday by a grand jury in Scranton charging a Scranton man with robbing the West Scranton branch of PNC Bank.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Marblemount, WA - Goodell Fire burned down to and crossed State Route 20 this afternoon causing a rockslide. The Department of Transportation has closed the highway while firefighters and helicopters work to slow the fire’s spread, remove the debris and make the popular scenic route safe for travelers again. The North Cascades Visitor Center, the Upper and Lower Goodell group camps, and Newhalem Creek Campground are closed due to the fire and concern for visitor safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that David S. Duffin, age 44, of Chicago, Illinois, was found guilty on one count of Knowingly Transporting a Minor in Interstate Commerce with Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity following a three day jury trial in Fayetteville. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - John Boyer, the husband of former DeKalb County, Georgia, Commissioner Elaine Boyer, has been sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for conspiring to steal county money. His plea and corruption charges stem from Elaine Boyer’s conviction on similar charges in September 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Defendant met in person with 15 year old to engage in and record sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Indictment alleges doctor illegally distributed from his practice
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Gary Coleman, a/k/a “Short," age 44, of Baltimore, today to nine years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, in connection with a bribery and drug conspiracy in which he bribed letter carriers to divert packages of marijuana sent through the mail and deliver the packages to Coleman and other co-conspirators. Judge Motz also ordered Coleman to forfeit $14,700.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: A Mayfield Heights man is accused of stealing more than $677,000 from his former employer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Jalita Jenera Johnson has pleaded guilty to lying during the purchase of a gun and magazine, saying it was for her, when in fact she purchased the gun for her convicted felon boyfriend, Marcus Wheeler. Wheeler later used the gun to kill an Omaha, Nebraska, police officer who was attempting to serve a warrant for his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Columbia, Mo., men were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in separate and unrelated cases, for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Leon J. Tafoya, 20, a member and resident of Santa Clara Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 84 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Reza Prosecuted Pursuant to Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Marlene Biggs, age 53, of Bowie, Maryland today admitted to unlawfully converting funds obtained from her government credit cards to her personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, announced that Carlos Renaldo (39), of Bonaire, Georgia; and Twayne Lebarsha (41), Willie Lewis (44), Jasmine Janay (25), Wallace Eugene McCree, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Fogle notifies U.S. District Court that he will plead guilty as charged.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging former U.S. State Department employee Michael C. Ford has been engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims provided him with additional explicit photos and videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyrell Askerneese, 36, of Wheeling, was convicted in federal court today of heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
