News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 15, 2015 - Two weeks after being indicted on a federal firearms charge, a federal grand jury has again indicted Michael Calloway aka Oso, 20, of Nashville, Tenn., with conspiring to tamper with a witness and attempting to tamper with a witness, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Also indicted on the same charges was Laquanda Boyce aka Quanda, 33, also of Nashville.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas has indicted 32 defendants, including Gas Pipe, Inc., its owner, his daughter, and numerous managers, on felony charges stemming from their involvement in a massive synthetic drug distribution conspiracy, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - After record-setting snowfall last winter, New Hampshire residents scrambled to get heavy snow off their roofs to avoid damage. At the same time, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found contractors who ignored hazards and had employees remove snow from roofs without using required fall protection.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Northern West Virginia teens were selected as winners of an annual drug prevention and awareness scholarship contest sponsored by Drug Free Clubs of America. Wheeling Park High School Sophomore Shayla McFarland and Magnolia High School Junior Cedar Sands were each awarded a $500 college scholarship.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Brooklyn, New York, men were convicted today of defrauding Home Depot out of more than $250,000 through an elaborate “double-dipping" scheme that they committed at various Home Depot locations throughout the United States, including New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Quantum physics drives much of the research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Explaining this research is a challenge, because quantum physics-nature's rules for the smallest particles of matter and light-inspires words like weird, curious, and counter-intuitive. The quantum world is strange and invisible in the context of everyday life.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Baby Had Fractures of Skull and Ribs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Rami Hisham Mohammad, 34, of Hilliard, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 18 months in prison and a $150,000 fine for trafficking in counterfeit goods.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Columbia, Mo., men and a Phoenix, Ariz., man were charged in federal court today, in separate but related cases, for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine after law enforcement officers seized several pounds of methamphetamine from the defendants during an investigation yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Defendant Last Of Four Defendants To Be Sentenced In Hydrocodone And Alprazolam Distribution Conspiracy That Operated In Abilene, Lubbock And Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging David W. Griffin (44, Lutz) with one count of mail fraud, nine counts of bankruptcy fraud, two counts of making a false statement under oath during a bankruptcy proceeding, and one count of aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Man had previous conviction in Hamilton County on state child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Defendant Hid Cameras, Recorded Women Preparing for Ritual Bath.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jamie Rangel, 27, of Ripon, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 14 years in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. On May 1, 2015, Rangel’s co-defendant, Daniel Covarrubias, 23, of Ripon, was sentenced to eight years and five months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Bluefield, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber sentenced two Mercer County women in federal court in Bluefield on drug offenses. Regina Conley, 33, of Princeton, was sentenced to18 months in prison for distribution of a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Morgantown, West Virginia resident Jerome Naquan Haynes, 35, originally of New York, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison after he admitted that he sold oxycodone pills near a Harrison County, West Virginia playground, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Charlietta M. Lee, 51, of Marion, Illinois, was sentenced for engaging in a scheme to commit health care fraud by defrauding the Home Services Program, which is a Medicaid Waiver Program designed to allow individuals to stay in their homes instead of entering a nursing home.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ryan C. Anton, age 42, of Elverson, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a competitive coal lease sale by sealed bid at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in the BLM-Utah State Office, Monument Conference Room, Suite 500, 440 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, Utah.The BLM-Utah State Office today published in the Federal Register...
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) announced today that he plans to schedule a hearing on issues related to the recent Amtrak accident in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
