News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- A Dallas resident and former chief executive officer and president of Arrow Trucking Company was sentenced today to serve seven and one-half years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States, bank fraud and tax evasion, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA -Paul R. Bloom, 32, of Crestview, was sentenced to 30 years in prison today for production and receipt of child pornography. Following his incarceration, he will serve life on supervised release, and he must also register as a sex offender. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Delroy Woods, 24, pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Croix to one count of possession of prison contraband, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of Firearm was sentenced on October 7, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that DARRICK COLLETTE, 34, of Thompson, formerly of Putnam, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by seven years of supervised release, for trading child pornography over the Internet.
By State Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Tunisian Quartet’s Nobel Peace Prize award...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review an environmental assessment for a project to improve salmon habitat in the San Joaquin River near the city of Fresno. The project includes repairing a breach in an earthen berm, isolating a gravel pit pond from the San Joaquin River channel, restoring floodplain habitat and reducing predation by warm water fish inhabiting the pond.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that on October 8, 2015, Ryan Richard Duckett, 30, of Brighton, Illinois, pled guilty to the charge of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by an Unlawful User of a Controlled Substance. The charge carries...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - At 1:20 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 9 the United States Park Police and United States Secret Service responded to an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or drone, spotted flying in the vicinity of the Washington Monument. Flying any kind of UAS or drone anywhere in Washington, D.C. or in national parks is illegal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Rodney Stanley, 30, pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Croix to one count of possession of prison contraband, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Sanders and Cummings Denounce Continued Prescription Drug Price Gouging
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: The Capitol Reef National Park Visitor Center is currently open 8:00 am to 6:00 pm through October 31. Free interpretive programs will include: a geology talk at the visitor center at 10:00 am, Prehistoric Culture talk at the Highway 24 petroglyph panel at 3:00 pm. evening programs on weekends at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Ronald Bruce Myers, who is 56 years old, was sentenced to thirty years in prison for his leading role in stealing eight different motor homes across the United States as part of an extensive criminal conspiracy uncovered by the...
By State Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Dear Secretary Kerry: As longtime friends of Haiti in the United States Congress, we write to express our support for a strong United States commitment to free, fair and transparent elections in the country and to thank you for your recent travel there. As you know, Haiti is an important U.S. neighbor...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 43-year-old Cisco, Texas, man, Robert Jarold Eckhart, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings two years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in June 2015 to one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WALTER OIL & GAS CORPORATION, a Texas corporation domiciled in Houston, Texas, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with a felony violation of failing to immediately notifying the proper agency of a hazardous waste spill under Title 33, United States Code, Section 1321(b)(5)(C), in connection with their oil and gas production activities in the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Vincent Dewayne Carter, 30, of Natchez, pled guilty on October 8, 2015, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bramlette III, to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury found Laverne Singletary, 49, of Rochester, NY, guilty of possessing marijuana and possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. The charges carry a maximum possible penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Max Spatig, 73, of Rexburg, Idaho, the owner of MS Enterprises, was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison for knowingly storing and disposing of hazardous waste on a property off the Archer-Lyman Highway near Rexburg, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the upcoming flight plans for October 2015.
