News from March 2015
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: New River Gorge National River joins parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and share their stories online atFindYourPark.com. Launched yesterday by theNational Park Service and the National Park Foundation, Find Your Park is a public awareness and education campaign celebrating the milestone centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016 and setting the stage for its second century of service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.- London-based Hedley’s Humpers, Ltd., pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to smuggling two sea turtle shells into the United States in violation of the Endangered Species Act, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Special Agent in Charge William Giles.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Vivian man and a Texan pleaded guilty to cocaine conspiracy and methamphetamine distribution charges in Caddo and Bossier parishes.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Hyde Park, NY -- The Roosevelt- Vanderbilt National Historic Sites -- which include the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Home of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Sites -are joining parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - David Ray Crowe, Sr., 46, of Worley, Idaho, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbery of a smoke shop on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. During the term of supervised release, Crowe will...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) joins parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and share their stories online at FindYourPark.com. Launched on Monday, March 30 by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, Find...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jean Claud Mills, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea in federal court this morning to methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Mills will be sentenced to 11 years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Proposed penalties: $43,200 for Imagine Screen Printing & Productions LLC, and $21,000 for Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Leon Perry Brooks, Sr. (41, Jacksonville) to 21 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender and to serve a five-year term of supervision following his prison term. A federal jury found Brooks guilty on October 8, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jason Cortese, 33, of Greece, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempted production of child pornography, enticement of a minor, distribution and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Avery A. Gomeyosh, (age: 36), of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2015, to 65 months of imprisonment, followed by a 10 year term of supervised release. The sentence was the result of a guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Randall Bee “Randy" Blythe, age 58, of Fort Smith, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $468,309.58 in restitution...
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the presidential elections in Nigeria...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - District Court Judge Raymond Finch, on March 30, 2015, sentenced Golden Grove Prisoner Al-Ahad Barbel, 29, to 30 days in prison for possession of prison contraband, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent-in-Charge...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Ryan Commends House Passage of Reforms to Strengthen Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Cesar Raphael Barretto, age 44, of Severn, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to embezzle over $402,000 from the company where he worked.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Republic, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing 21 handguns from an Ozark, Mo., pawn shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PETER AMREIN, a Swiss citizen and former asset manager at a Swiss asset management firm, pleaded guilty to conspiring with U.S. taxpayer-clients and others to help U.S. taxpayers hide millions of dollars in offshore...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Nazariy Kmet, 37, of Jamison, PA, a co-owner and the President of Life Support Corporation (Life Support), was sentenced today to 72 months in prison, for an extensive health care fraud scheme. The defendant pleaded guilty to health care fraud conspiracy and paying kickbacks. The company, Life Support, which is now defunct, had been located in the Feasterville-Trevose area and had been incorporated in 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JACLYN CAMPBELL, age 24, of Muskogee, Oklahoma was sentenced to 5 years of probation for Concealing Person from Arrest, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1071.
