News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: MIAMI - Four Tampa residents have been charged by indictment with conspiracy to import a synthetic cannabinoid, a/k/a “Spice," to the United States from China.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced Bryant Dewayne (30, Lake County) to 10 years in federal prison for the attempted possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. In a separate proceeding, Simmons previously forfeited approximately $150,000, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Nampa Man and Woman Sentenced to Prison and Another Nampa Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, AK-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today published a notice in the Federal Register for nominations and comments on available tracts to be considered for inclusion in the BLM’s fall 2015 oil and gas lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Fred Douglas Brooks III, age 47, of Houston; David Humphries, age 46, of Baltimore; and Paul Lee, age 36, Marlon Barnes, age 38, and Garry Gentry, age 31, residents of New Orleans, ...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: KIMBERLY - The National Park Service wants the public to know that the Federal Highways Administration and their contractors will be working on paved parking lots and paved roads at the Sheep Rock and Clarno Units of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. This will not affect any US or Oregon Highways that pass through the monument.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: A Youngstown-based company was fined $75,000 and ordered to make $25,000 in payments to the community for violating the Clean Water Act by dumping fracking waste into a tributary of the Mahoning River.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Jacksonville residents Hezekiah Williams (59), Travis Jerome Ware (24), and David Lee Mitchell (53) with aggravated identity theft, attempted bank fraud, and possession of counterfeit business...
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: On Tuesday, May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) participated in a repatriation ceremony in Rome, Italy for 26 stolen artifacts of Italian heritage that were seized after investigations across nine domestic HSI offices.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury today returned an indictment in U.S. District Court charging Rakieda D. Cheatham, 27, of Youngstown, with threatening interstate communications and making threats/conveying false information regarding explosives, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Denver - Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) released final environmental reviews for land use plans in Colorado that will help to conserve greater sage-grouse habitat and support sustainable economic development. The land management plans, developed during the...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -A temporary emergency closure will go into effect for Goldstrike Canyon and Arizona Hot Spring trails within Lake Mead National Recreation Area, beginning May 29.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - ― United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of 41 members of a multi-state heroin trafficking conspiracy. The 41 defendants named in the indictment were charged with Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin, Methamphetamine, Oxycodone, Hydromorphone, Hydrocodone, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL- U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Matthew Anillo Mango (32, Lakeland) to 10 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. This charge stemmed from the 2010 homicide of Lakeland resident Amanda Peterson. Mango pleaded guilty on June 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that James S. Allen, 38, of New Baltimore, MI, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography and cyberstalking before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charges carry a mandatory minimum 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Charles Kane, 46, of Spencerport, NY, with attempted online enticement of a minor. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, a maximum of life, a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York is participating in a national initiative designed to make summer camps accessible to Americans with disabilities announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: BALTIMORE - A federal grand jury has returned three indictments charging a total of 16 individuals with drug conspiracy and other charges for operating purported pain management clinics that the indictments allege were actually “pill mills." The indictments were returned on May 20, 2015, and unsealed...
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2015 - Today, Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) responded to the Obama Administration’s announcement of federal land use plans for the Greater Sage Grouse.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment, filed today, charges three Philadelphia men with robbing Verizon wireless stores of expensive cellular telephones for the purpose of reselling them and splitting the nearly $80,000 in proceeds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Darryl Alston, 39, Rynell...
