News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: One Victim, 62, Was Attacked While Delivering Newspapers; Other Victim Was Attacked While Delivering Food.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mark Hamlet, Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced that EFRAIN ANTONIO CAMPO FLORES and FRANQUI FRANCISCO FLORES DE FREITAS...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JIMY NAHUN NUÑEZ-IZAGUIRRE, age 31, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Douglas E. Cowgill, 60, of Westerville, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to wire fraud, theft or embezzlement from employee benefit plans, and perjury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TRACIE MEDUS, age 40, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio - Several indictments regarding drug trafficking and firearms crimes in Lorain County were recently unsealed in federal court as part of an ongoing coordinated enforcement initiative, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Yates, North Dakota, woman was acquitted of Incest as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on November 4, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Spencer Harris, 31, of Richmond, was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for two counts of interference with commerce by robbery. Harris was ordered by the court to pay $2,600 in restitution to the victims of the crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Carl D. Greene, Jr., a 20 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5400.00 to Century Bank on Grand Bay Wilmer Road in Grand Bay, Alabama. After completion of his incarceration, he will serve a term of supervised release of three years.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today released a preliminary environmental assessment for public review that evaluates offering two parcels in northwest Colorado in the May 2016 competitive oil and gas lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Antwan Travers, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for charges arising from his participation in a conspiracy to commit three armed robberies of commercial establishments. Judge Bennett also entered an order requiring Travers to pay restitution of $6,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ZACHARY KRAMER, 22, of Bethesda, Maryland, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and to distribute, MDMA (“Molly"). The charge stems from an investigation into the distribution of controlled substances that caused multiple Wesleyan University students to overdose earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOEQUELL LEWIS, age 28, ANDRE ADDISON, age 24, and TERRENCE KELLEY, age 29, all of the Waggaman/Avondale areas, pled guilty this week to conspiring to distribute heroin and/or crack cocaine. KELLEY also pleaded guilty to murdering a man to further his group’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The former executive director of two Deerfield-based physician offices was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for fraudulently diverting nearly $500,000 of the companies’ funds to her own use.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists recently tested 10 commercial lumber species to learn which woods a termite favors and spurns.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), the South Dakota Attorney General, and other law enforcement partner agencies will hold a press conference on Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, at the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan and the National Fish, Wildlife & Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, an interagency group of federal, state, and tribal agencies today announced creation of a new Climate Adaptation Leadership Award for Natural Resources.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-The rich heritage of southern West Virginia is celebrated through photographs in the 2015 Hidden History Photo exhibit. These history-based photographs are currently on display at the Hatfield and McCoy Convention and Visitor Bureau in Logan. First displayed at Tamarack in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Polite announced that ELVIRA DUTHU DUPLANTIS, age 50, of Houma, was indicted today for Theft of Mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo, who is handling the case, stated that according to the indictment, the defendant owned and operated two different delivery businesses known as Three Kids Trucking Inc., and 1553 Harlem Road Inc. Between April 2007 and June 2013, while Schmitt owned and operated...
