News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that her office’s Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit has settled a lawsuit for fire suppression costs against John Faulkner and Faulkner Land and Livestock Company. The office collected $88,000. The case involved two fires: the “Faulkner" fire in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 4, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 61 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances in the municipalities of Manatí, Barceloneta, and Florida, PR, announced Rosa Emilia...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: The State of Alaska’s Power Cost Equalization (PCE) Program is intended to “equalize" the cost of power for rural Alaskans through rate balancing that takes into account both the amount of funding spent on large energy infrastructure projects that benefit the urban “Railbelt" and Juneau electric utility customers and the procurement costs incurred by the 184 isolated diesel microgrid utilities scattered across rural Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH -- A resident of the Uniontown, Pa., area, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of threats against the President and the members of the immediate family of the President, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: SIOUX CITY - A former Captain in the U.S. Air Force (USAF) who served in 2010 as a U.S. military contracting officer in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty yesterday to violating restrictions on post-government employment and making a false statement to law enforcement agents, announced U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau of the Northern District of Iowa and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a federal jury sitting in Florence, South Carolina, found Woody Graham, 36, guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Graham was wiring fraud proceeds to Jamaica on behalf of a group running a bogus lottery scam...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: COOK COUNTY, Ill. - ― A report of a suspicious delivery at a cold storage facility led to the recovery of approximately 2,100 pounds of marijuana hidden in frozen avocado pulp, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: WHO: About 25 young adults (ages 16-25) from all over the state who learn workplace skills through New Jersey Youth Corps (NJYC) units throughout the state of New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Selvis Velazquez-Villanueva, a 28 year-old Honduran citizen, for entering the United States illegally after previously being deported.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: Local schools now have one less barrier to bringing students on a field trip to Tumacácori National Historical Park. "If transportation is the only thing keeping kids from experiencing our amazing park, then that's an obstacle we want to address," says Superintendent Bob Love. "Budgets are tight all over, but it's so important that we reach out to our neighbors.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Ajibola Erogbogbo, age 19, of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Four men appeared in federal court today and yesterday to face charges that they participated in a scheme to manufacture and traffic in firearms illegally, in some instances by assembling untraceable assault-style weapons in a defendant’s home and then selling the guns for thousands of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Three people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of kidnapping and killing a Junction City woman, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. Grissom said his office is prosecuting the case jointly with the Geary County Attorney in federal court.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: Are you a teenager looking for a challenging summer job? If so, you may be interested in working for the National Park Service as a member of the Youth Conservation Corps at Fort Sumter National Monument. The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) was established by Public Law 93-408. It is a summer employment...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Matthew William McLean (26, Minneapolis) to 31 years and 6 months in federal prison for attempting to transport a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and for committing a felony sex offense as a registered sex offender. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Christy Romero, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), and Patricia M. Ferrick...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Effective immediately, Michael Shane Arrington, former Public Affairs Specialist for United States Attorney Booth Goodwin’s office, is no longer employed with the office. Please forward all press inquiries to www.justice.gov/usao/wvs or to Robin Justice at (304)345-2200.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Lawrence woman was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in federal prison for embezzlement and ordered to pay $837,000 in restitution to her former employer, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that it had filed a forfeiture lawsuit against the real property at 24 and 24.5 Cottage Street in Rutland Vermont. The suit was brought pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(7), which provides that property which is used to commit or to facilitate the commission of felony drug offenses can be forfeited to the Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
