News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott S. Allen, Jr., who handled the case, stated that between May 2012 and July 2013, while living in Buffalo, the defendant received Title II Child Insurance Benefits from the Social Security Administration but did not use the benefits to support his son. Hargrave received a total of $39,124 to which he was not entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a two-day trial, Barry Lee Bowser Jr., 52, of Bakersfield, was found guilty today of one count of aiming the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will hold three public hearings on a proposed federal marketing order for pecans grown in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Statements by Head of the Civil Rights Division Vanita Gupta and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York on the Filing of the Proposed Settlement Agreement Regarding Rikers Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Pursuant to Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative and The HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man who was part of a crew that robbed an armored vehicle security guard outside a Las Vegas casino in December 2009, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $36,320 in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - Ruben Settle, 38, was sentenced on June 29 by Chief District Judge Susan Oki Mollway to 210 months imprisonment for his aggravated role in a plan to distribute methamphetamine on the island of Maui. Settle had previously pled guilty on March 12, 2015 to possessing, with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four people were charged today for allegedly smuggling counterfeit Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods, and Sony camcorders, from China for sale in the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman of the District of New Jersey, Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Special Agent in Charge Kevin Kelly of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Newark and Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: SIOUX CITY - A former marketing manager at egg production and processing facilities who participated in a conspiracy to bribe a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector, to sell restricted eggs with intent to defraud, and to introduce misbranded food into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead was sentenced yesterday in federal district court in Sioux City, Iowa, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Iowa announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Linda Harvey-Irvin, 62, of Jackson, Donald Walton, 51, of Vicksburg, and Markuntala Croom, 45, of Columbia, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden for bribery involving the Gulf Coast Community Action Agency, a non-profit organization, partially funded by federal grants...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Evelyn Jean Vickers, 39, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced on June 30, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to a federal prison term of 110 months for her role in an extensive a-PVP (alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced its next five hearings during the coming weeks on water management in the Yakima River Basin; mitigation requirements for economic development on federal land; islanded energy systems in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories; and the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle. More information on these hearings can be found at the links below or visiting the committee’s website.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Chief District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis, today, sentenced Luke Lubrin, 46, of St. Croix, to four years of probation for manufacturing marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Statement from FAA Deputy Administrator Mike Whitaker:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: One, a Convicted Felon, Sentenced to 180 Months in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Obstruct Justice.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska -Fire restrictions remain in effect at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.Past and prevailing weather conditions have caused extremely dry conditions. Fire danger remains elevated in Gulkana, along the McCarthy Road, and McCarthy.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Park rangers responded to a report of a gunshot in Denali National Park and Preserve at approximately 9:45 a.m. Tuesday. They found a man with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was dead at the scene.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Although the sale of ground and hand-held fireworks and their use is legal in Arizona please remember fireworks are not permitted on public lands at any time, year-round.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Donte Maurice Johnson, age 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on June 30, 2015, to two commercial robberies and to using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jon Michael Charles, 26, of Alice, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
