News from November 2015
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park is initiating a Wilderness Stewardship Plan (WSP) to guide the management of visitor use and enjoyment of the Mount Rainier Wilderness, while preserving its character. The proposed WSP and its effects will be analyzed in an environmental impact statement (EIS). Public involvement is crucial to the WSP/EIS planning process.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Summerhill, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to charges of theft of mail by a postal employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Leticia A. Roque, 48, of Vallejo, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to submit false claims against the United States and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Orlando Jose Chapa, 37, of Dallas appeared before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor this morning and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging one count of aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Nathan Tremblay, 22, of Manchester, New Hampshire, appeared in United States District Court today and entered a guilty plea to one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person in violation of federal law, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A defendant who pleaded guilty this summer to an indictment charging one count of distribution of methamphetamine, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to 360 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Carl Joseph Thomas Pisa (24, Casselberry) guilty of possessing destructive devices. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has been set for Jan. 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - In the first federal prosecution of its kind, a high-frequency trader was convicted today of disrupting commodity futures prices in a $1.4 million fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eddie Gallardo, 32, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Las Cruces federal court to 78 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his conviction on cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Frank Menichini, 73, of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to a criminal information charging him with one count of falsifying records with the intent to obstruct an investigation by the United States Department of Transportation (“DOT"). U.S. District Court Judge Gerald...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the November 2015 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Savino Braxton, age 58, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 20 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute heroin. The sentence imposed today is consecutive to the six months Judge Bredar imposed during the trial for contempt. A federal jury convicted Braxton on July 23, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Antonio Whiteside, 27, of St. Louis County was sentenced to five years imprisonment on the federal charge stemming from Whiteside starting a fire inside the Ferguson Supermarket, Inc. on Nov. 24, 2014, the date St. Louis County Prosecuting Robert McCulloch announced the grand jury decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Luthersburg, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of possession of a controlled substance, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Lori Ann Dilworth to two years and one month in federal prison for conspiracy to submit false claims to the IRS and aggravated identity theft. She also was ordered to serve two years of supervised release and to pay $52,105 in restitution to the IRS. Dilworth pleaded guilty on August 4, 2015.
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed H. Res. 354, introduced by U.S. Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), which encourages European countries to protect the security of their Jewish populations in the face of rising anti-Semitism. U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the resolution’s passage...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Gun store owner murdered in robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA), Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), and Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) issued a statement expressing concern about a provision in the Senate-approved highway bill that would require the IRS to use private debt collectors to collect tax debts in order to help offset the cost of the highway bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Charles Shawn Shannon, 55, of Belington, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for marijuana trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Investment Scam Solicited over 10,000 Victims before Collapsing in February 2015.
