News from March 2015
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park and Friends of Saguaro National Park officially opened the new bilingual exhibit collection in the Rincon Mountain Visitor Center on Thursday, March 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced that Darren Douglass-Griffin, Kerry Bolden, Emmett McKenzie and Kadarius Thomas-four former members of the Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Macon State Prison (MSP) in Oglethorpe, Georgia-were sentenced today for federal offenses related to the beating of MSP inmates in 2010 and the cover-up that followed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Anthony Vincent Burkitt, a/k/a “Vincent Thomas Wolfe," (45, Jacksonville) to 27 months in federal prison for failing to register as sex offender after traveling to Florida from Maryland. He pleaded guilty on December 5, 2014. Burkitt has been in custody since his arrest on April 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Mario O. Garcia, 41, of Van Nuys, California, was convicted in federal court today of oxycodone trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, (R-Pa.), a member of the Committee, praised the inclusion of the medical device tax repeal in the Senate Republican budget.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Eric Devin Masters, 28, of St. Ignace, Michigan, received a 50-year sentence in federal prison for producing child pornography of three young girls, ages 18 months to 12 years old. The judge ordered him to pay $76,640 in restitution for counseling costs to the youngest victim...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Krist Koranteng, age 33, of Burtonsville and Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a mail and wire fraud conspiracy, and to money laundering, in connection with a scheme in which the conspirators pretended to be romantically interested in the victims in order to cause the victims...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Warren County, Kentucky, woman was sentenced to 72 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release by Chief District Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., for maliciously damaging and destroying and attempting to damage and destroy, by means of fire, the Dollar General Store, and the personal property, located in Hart County, Kentucky, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christopher Simmance, 38, of City of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm after having been committed to a mental institution, was sentenced to time served (19 months) and two years supervised release by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Tobyhanna man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Scranton on charges of producing child pornography and receiving and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: On March 17, 2015, Daniel J. E. Overmyer, 23, of Carterville, IL, was sentenced for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Washington - AMS Administrator Rayne Pegg released the following statement today in reference to the findings of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit report of the National Organic Program (NOP).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last evening, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) met with the Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to discuss progress in the implementation of the “Plan for the...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: SOSUA, Dominican Republic - Twenty-nine sex trafficking victims were rescued in Sosua, Dominican Republic, March 11 following an international undercover law enforcement investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Clarence Thompson, 36, of Clarksburg, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) this afternoon released the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David William Burkman, 31, of Canon City, Colorado, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for sexually exploiting a child and transporting child pornography. Burkman pleaded guilty to the charges on Oct. 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Berwick man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Scranton on charges of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) today issued a nationwide alert about the dangers of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues/compounds. Fentanyl is commonly laced in heroin, causing significant problems across the country, particularly as heroin abuse has increased. This alert was issued through the multi-agency El Paso Intelligence (EPIC) to all U.S. law enforcement.
