News from October 2015
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: IRVINE, CA - Announced today before an enthusiastic crowd at the Orange County Great Park, Irvine, CA, Stevens Institute of Technology of Hoboken, NJ, took first place in both highly competitive Architecture and Communications Contests at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015. Stevens’ SURE...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: For the month of November, Cape Cod National Seashore will exhibit photographs from artist Gerald Cohen as part of its Perspectives: Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore through Art series. The photographs included in the exhibit were taken at the ocean, bay, and pond beaches of Cape Cod National Seashore.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Leon Herrera, 37, of Las Vegas, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to falsely impersonating a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-The second executive of a property development company was sentenced on Thursday for conspiring to defraud $1,176,490.60 from IBC Bank, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - KEVIN HUNTSPON was indicted for allegedly soliciting and receiving payments from a local grocery store owner in connection with health inspections conducted at the grocery store.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Pennsylvania Man Found Guilty by Jury Trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Bolingbrook man has been sentenced to 47 years in federal prison for running a brutal sex trafficking ring that forced four victims into prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Vaughn Watrous, 38, formerly of Providence, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to robbing four banks, two in Providence and two in Cranston, on four consecutive days in February 2013, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Cranston Police Chief Colonel Michael J. Winquist, Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr., and Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Morris Thweatt, age 47, of Silver Spring, Maryland today to 80 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for three bank robberies. Judge Grimm also entered an order that Thweatt forfeit and pay restitution of $22,773, the total amount that he stole.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Darryl Norris, age 37, of Baltimore, today to nine years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing a video game store. Judge Russell also entered an order that Norris pay restitution of $13,481.15.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Riverside, California - A Seal Beach man has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges related to a mortgage rescue scheme in which he made false promises to the distressed homeowner, filed fraudulent bankruptcies to delay foreclosure and rented the property to third parties as the foreclosure proceedings were delayed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A convicted felon from Tarrant County who pleaded guilty this summer to his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Alleged to have stolen over $260,000 from cash bond fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: By U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Seiler.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A military contractor has been levied with a monetary judgment for accepting gifts and gratuities from sub-contractors, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that on Oct. 14, 2015, Ann Marie Sheppard, 54, of O’Fallon, Illinois, pled guilty in federal court to charges that she engaged in a scheme to steal from a health care program and committed mail fraud. Sentencing has been set for Feb. 10, 2016. Sheppard will face up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and up to 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green of the Middle District of Louisiana announced that a federal grand jury has indicted RAPHEW T. REED, JR., age 30, of Ruston, Louisiana, with making false statements to a credit union, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1014, false...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - The man who fatally shot off-duty Memphis Police Department (MPD) officer Terence Olridge last Sunday has been charged federally with felony possession of a firearm. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the charge today.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that the Republic of Nicaragua complies with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety standards and has been granted a Category 1 rating.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Ronald Shannon Sosebee, 38, of Brevard, N.C. was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger to serve 12 months and one day in federal prison for sexually touching and propositioning another person without that person’s permission, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Sosebee was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
