News published on Federal Newswire in May 2015

News from May 2015


Extended Hours at Homestead National Monument of America

News Release: Extended Hours at Homestead National Monument of America.


Lower Brule Man Sentenced For Assaulting Girlfriend

News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to a Dating or Intimate Partner was sentenced on May 12, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.



News Release: DAYTON, Ohio -Jack A. Manning, 61, of Troy, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to producing child pornography and attempting to produce child pornography.


News Release: Spokane -On Monday the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington filed a notice on Monday informing the U.S. Federal District Court that it had completed a multi-year investigation of fraud originally alleged by three former employees of Monaco Enterprises Inc., a Spokane...


News Release: On Saturday, May 23, of Memorial Day weekend, there will two astronomy programs at Bandy Creek Visitor Center of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. There will be a solar viewing beginning at 3 p.m. (ET) and a night skies program at 9 p.m.(ET). Paul Lewis of the University of Tennessee...


News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - Deangelo Cann, 25, of Detroit, Michigan, pled guilty today in federal court in Charleston to distribution of oxymorphone. Cann admitted that on each of February 2 and 3, 2015, he sold the prescription drugs to a confidential informant (CI) working with the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement...


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jovan Martinez, 29, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea today in federal court to methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Martinez will be sentenced to 12 years in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.



News Release: Operation White Water Blitz targeting sex offenders in Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Counties found 45 sex offenders out of compliance.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of May 18. The full committee will vote on the nonpartisan 21st Century Cures Act. Members will also continue work to build the Architecture of Abundance and conduct oversight of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the nation’s opioid abuse epidemic.


News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lake Charles man pleaded guilty Thursday to receiving child pornography on his home computer.


News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Elvis Oneal Gray, 40, of Biloxi, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola to a term of thirty-three (33) months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud in connection with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced. Gray was also ordered to pay a fine in the amount of $7,500.00.


Former Gwinnett Lawyer Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Funds from His Clients

News Release: ATLANTA - Former Gwinnett County, Georgia, lawyer Michael Rene Berlon has been sentenced to five years, three months in prison for stealing more than $2 million from clients of his former law firm and using it for his own benefit.


News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JACOB KEELS, 33, of Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing a stolen firearm.


News Release: Rabbi Sentenced to Six and a Half Years Prison Term for Voyeurism, Admitted Secretly Taking Video Recordings of Women.


News Release: FRANKFORT - Today, a federal jury in Frankfort, Ky., convicted Henry Irving Ramer, of Encino, Calif., for his role in an oil investment scheme in Kentucky that defrauded over 200 investors, nationwide, out of more than $3,000,000.


News Release: DALLAS - An Arlington, Texas, woman, who admitted stealing retirement insurance benefits and veterans’ benefits from her deceased parents, was sentenced today, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.


Olympic National Park Obstruction Point Road to Open Three Miles to Waterhole

News Release: The first three miles of the eight-mile long Obstruction Point Road is open to public access. The road is clear of snow and has been graded as far as Waterhole.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...