News published on Federal Newswire in October 2015

News from October 2015


OSHA finds improper load rigging caused fatal worker injury in Lincoln, Nebraska

News Release: Employer name: CBS Pilings Solutions Inc., Riverside, Missouri


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Rigoberto Zavala-Cerrato, 28, of Kennett Square, PA, was charged today by indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Sept. 15, 2015, Zavala-Cerrato, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about February 4, 2010.


Agricultural manufacturer exposes workers to amputation, other safety hazards

News Release: Employer name: The Bellevue Manufacturing Company, Bellevue, Ohio


Bergen County, New Jersey, Man Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Defrauding Foreign Nation Of More Than $3.5 Million

News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former international legal advisor and New York-licensed attorney was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for using a sham accounting firm to defraud a foreign nation of more than $3.5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


News Release: OAKLAND - Melvin Landry, Jr. and Dominique Marquis Martin were sentenced on Oct. 13, 2015, for their participation in a case involving a spree of armed robberies of commercial businesses in and around the Bay Area, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch; FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson; and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon.


News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Donald G. McManus, 22, and Breanna L. McManus, 23, of Wallingford, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today to charges related to the distribution of heroin aboard the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier that ultimately led to the overdose of an active duty sailor.


Grand Canyon National Park Prepares for Multi-Day Shutdown of the Transcanyon Pipeline

News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Grand Canyon National Park is in the process of replacing a portion of the Transcanyon Pipeline (TCP) at Phantom Ranch. As part of the construction process, the TCP will be turned off to allow crews to connect the new portions of the pipeline to the existing pipeline.


News Release: National Capital Region. 1100 Ohio Drive SW. Washington, DC 20242. 202-619-7400 phone. www.nps.gov. National Park Service News Release. Release Date: Oct. 15, 2015. Contact: Wayne Campbell, 202-619-7186, e-mail us. Baltimore-Washington Parkway Embarks on Road Improvements. The National Park Service...


Release: Washington, DC, Oct. 15, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Food and Nutrition Service announces the expansion of the Team Up for School Nutrition Success (Team Up) initiative with the addition of two trainings designed to help make the initiative a sustainable training program for advancing the school nutrition field.


Acusada una Organización a la Que se le Relaciona con la Metanfetamina en el Condado de Fresno

News Release: FRESNO, California - Hoy un gran jurado federal dictó un auto de procesamiento de 13 cargos contra 14 individuos acusados de conspirar para distribuir metanfetamina, cocaína y heroína, anunció el Procurador de los Estados Unidos Benjamín B. Wagner.


News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Khalil Brown, 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was convicted of heroin trafficking in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.


News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Stedman J. Bates, age 26, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to 135 months for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana, a violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846. United States District Timothy M. Cain of Anderson sentenced Bates.


News Release: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Michael J. Moore, announced the Oct. 15, 2015 sentencing of Roger Ross, age 50 of Miami, Florida and Odell Cleveland, age 47, of Cairo, Georgia. Mr. Ross was sentenced to serve a term of 360 months imprisonment followed by a term of supervised...


News Release: A former uniformed police officer with the City of Miami Police Department pled guilty today to accepting bribes.


News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former Schuylkill County employee, Virginia G. Kunigonis, age 54, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge William W. Caldwell to embezzling $452,186 from the Schuylkill County Conservation District between 2007 and 2014.


Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Welcomes Centennial Volunteer Ambassador

News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, CA - Stephany Dery, a graduate of the State University of New York at Cortland, will help prepare Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks for the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary in 2016. She is one of 70 energetic, young Centennial Volunteer Ambassador interns recently selected to spend the next year connecting local communities to parks through volunteer group service opportunities.


Comprehensive Enforcement Action, Federal Court Filings Require R.I. State Government to Reduce Pollution and Resolve Longstanding Clean Water Act Violations

News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Assistant Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) of the Department of Justice John C. Cruden, and EPA Region 1 Administrator H. Curtis Spalding announced today that the United States has taken comprehensive...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued a statement in response to a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department that the U.S. government is projected to exhaust its extraordinary measures to continue financing the government no later than Nov. 3, 2015...


Two sentenced for oxycodone trafficking

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two individuals were sentenced in federal court today for oxycodone trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Angela Santillanes, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., appeared in federal court this morning on an indictment charging her with a sex trafficking charge. Santillanes remains in federal custody pending an arraignment on the indictment and a detention hearing, both of which are set for tomorrow.