News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Nineteen Firearms and one Antique Revolver were Stolen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that James VanValkenberg, age 22, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a felony Criminal Indictment was returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Scranton charging federal prison inmate Dwayne Parker, age 30, today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Five of the eleven defendants charged in connection to a scheme involving the development of Seven Falls, a golf course and luxury residential community in Henderson County, N.C. were sentenced today, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Traci Weaver/Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. A 62-year-old Australian man sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries after an encounter with a bison near Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone National Park around 11 a.m. today. According to witness reports, several people...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Corrections Silver State Industries hosted this year’s second of four annual saddle-trained horse adoption events May 30 at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center south of Carson City, Nevada.Fifteen wild horses from ranges on BLM-administered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Stacy Laulu, 33, of Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced to two years imprisonment in U.S. District Court on May 29, 2015, on her convictions for two felony violations of the Health Information Portability and Accountablity (HIPPA). The case represented the first felony HIPAA prosecution in Alaska, and one of the few in the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that ROBERT EDWARD LEE, age 41, of Manteca, California, pled guilty to POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE MARIJUANA, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(D) and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2, punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, a fine of up to $250,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced Brian A. Miller, 37, of Varna, Ill., to serve 18 years in federal prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release. Miller was convicted following a two-day bench trial, on May 20, 2014, of 22 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. Miller has remained detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since August 2013, when he was arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 29-year-old Saylorsburg man was sentenced to 10 months in prison today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton, Pennsylvania for conspiring with others to distribute illegal drugs in the Monroe-Berks County area in 2011-2013.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: WINESBURG, Ohio - Less than two years after agreeing to address safety violations in a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Case Farms Processing Inc. exposed workers to the same dangerous machinery hazards at its Winesburg facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Following the Senate vote approving the House-passed USA Freedom Act by a vote of 67- 32, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two doctors with a practice in New York were each sentenced today to 20 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $63,000 civil penalty against CTC Battery Inc. of Hayward, Calif., for allegedly violating Hazardous Material Transportation Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A convicted sex offender who was arrested at his home in Las Vegas with a minor boy and also found in possession of a firearm, was sentenced today to life in prison for his guilty plea to a federal firearms offense, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned two indictments charging five Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) employees and six commercial trash haulers with conspiracy and other charges, including bribery and theft, related to two schemes to defraud the City of Baltimore through the operation of the DPW waste management services. Two employees are charged in both indictments. The indictments were returned on May 28, 2015 and unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal laws concerning robbery, use of a firearm, and firearm possession, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden woman today admitted buying five firearms in North Carolina so her cousin could sell them in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that a Criminal Indictment was returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Scranton charging federal prison inmate Deshon Thomas, age 40, with allegedly assaulting a federal corrections officer at the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution in November 2014, causing bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: CONCORD - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced today that Santiago Marino Reyes-Lara, a/k/a Jean Carlos Sotomayor-Venerio, 27, of Lawrence, Massachusetts pleaded guilty today to unlawful possession with the intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack") and heroin. Reyes-Lara appeared before United States District Court Judge Paul J. Barbadoro to enter his guilty plea.
