News from July 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: FARGO - Acting U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on July 23, 2015, Steven Cude, 52, Portland, Oregon, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 17 ½ years for transportation and possession of child pornography. Judge Erickson also sentenced Cude to a lifetime...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Cazenovia-Based Companies alleged to Have Been Used in Fraud Scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Hull resident accused of stealing from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was charged with Theft of Government Funds in U.S. District Court in Boston this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: FARGO - Acting U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that Assistant U. S. Attorney Rick Volk has been promoted to supervisor of the Bakken Strike Force. His role will include the supervision of the Strike Force prosecutors, as well as leading the Bakken Strike Force and its response to organized crime in the Bakken.
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...

By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: FRITCH, Texas -Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument will host a Star Party on Saturday, August 15. Join us for an evening of star gazing at the Alibates Visitor Center. Ranger conducted activities will begin at 8:00 p.m. for children wishing to earn their Junior Ranger Night Explorer patch. The Junior Ranger activity will be followed by a theater presentation at 8:30 p.m. and the outdoor viewing will begin around 9:00 p.m.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Thirty Year Sentence for August 2013 Armed Robbery.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Lee Taylor, a 30-year career employee of the National Park Service, has been selected to serve as Olympic National Park's next Deputy Superintendent. Taylor is currently the Superintendent of San Juna Island National Historical Park, where she has served for the past three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican national was sentenced to 64 months in prison for possessing heroin with intent to distribute.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: ELEPHANT BUTTE, NM - Recent thefts of equipment from Elephant Butte Dam have prompted investigations by local and federal law enforcement.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the Office of Export Enforcement of the United States Department of Commerce announced that today in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, an officer of FIMCO, an Iranian corporation, entered a plea of guilty on behalf of the corporation to conspiracy to evade export licensing requirements.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that David Mitchell Carter, 49, of Olney, Illinois, was indicted on July 22, 2015, by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court in East Saint Louis, Illinois, on one count of Theft of Government Funds. If convicted, Carter faces maximum penalties of ten years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Concord, New Hampshire - Donald Feith, Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, today announced that a federal grand jury in Concord returned a one-count indictment charging JEREMY ROBINSON, 26, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition in...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - One individual pleaded guilty and another was sentenced today in connection with their roles in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Daniel Todd Manning (43, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to possessing several firearms after having been convicted of felony child sex offenses in the State of Kansas. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Manning has been in custody since his arrest on April 30, 2014, in Jacksonville. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Tomeka D. Wilburn, aged 32, of Ashburn, Georgia, was sentenced on July 23, 2015, before the Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior United States District Court Judge, in Albany, Georgia as follows.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: San Francisco, CA - Join a guided art history and exercise walk on Saturday, August 1with historians and interpreters from San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and Protect Coit Tower. The walk starts at Coit Tower at 10 AM and will end at noon at the Maritime Museum building, in Aquatic Park, just over one mile, all downhill, one-way.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Defendants drove 40,000 miles to release thousands of mink from farms in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its schedule for the week of July 27.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Denham (R-CA) will lead a Subcommittee roundtable policy discussion next week to examine innovative technologies that can improve the safety and efficiency of the U.S. pipeline network.