News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DENNIS SICA was sentenced today in White Plains federal court to 35 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl, the use of which resulted in the deaths of three individuals: Anthony Delello, Laura Brown, and Thomas Miller. SICA was sentenced by United States District Judge Cathy Seibel.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: For the third consecutive year, the NPS Fire Management Program Center at the National Interagency Fire Center hosted the NPS New Superintendents Academy the first week of August 2015. Though the theme was “Leading People," the superintendents spent an entire day focused on risk management and enhancing their knowledge and understanding of the operational branches within the Division of Fire and Aviation - Aviation, Structural Fire, and Wildland Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Thursday, October 8, 2015. An indictment charging seven Detroit-area men with conspiracy to distribute heroin was unsealed this morning, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. Joining McQuade in the announcement was David...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kenneth Colby Miller, 31, of Alamogordo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws by possessing an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: UFC and Davis Admit that UFC Was Never a “Woman-Owned Small Business" and.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a White Sulphur Springs woman pled guilty to a federal drug charge in federal court in Beckley. Paula Kay Butts, 50, pled guilty to using a communication facililty to facilitate a felony drug offense, admitting that on June 27...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The owners of a marketing and sales company admitted paying thousands of dollars in cash bribes to a New Jersey physician in return for patient referrals to their clients, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment returned today charges BARBARA BYRD-BENNETT with using her position atop the Chicago Public Schools to award lucrative no-bid contracts to her former employer in exchange for bribes and kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Rich Xiongpao, 42, of Fresno, charging him with conspiring to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana in connection with a large-scale cultivation operation in a national forest, and depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: Veteran Prosecutor Guided Office for Over Five Years As Acting U.S. Attorney and Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury in San Jose indicted Elizabeth Calderon and Esther Sanchez, AKA Trinidad Carrillo, with filing false tax returns, theft of government funds, aggravated identity theft, making false statements to federally insured institution, and conspiracy, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Biscayne National Park is partnering with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies during Columbus Day weekend, October 10-12, 2015. As part of the effort to protect park resources and the safety and welfare of visitors, reduced navigational speeds will be enforced by the U.S. Coast Guard in the Intracoastal Waterway. Columbus Day weekend is traditionally the most dangerous weekend of the year for those visiting the park by boat.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: What can skyrmions do for you? These ghostly quantum rings, heretofore glimpsed only under extreme laboratory conditions, just might be the basis for a new type of computer memory that never loses its grip on the data it stores.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Draft Environmental Assessment for the Natomas Central Mutual Water Company’s R-Drain Check Structure Automation Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Keno Phillips, 41, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and Steve Ivery, 30, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person, in indictments returned in Cincinnati.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Yesterday, a federal trial jury convicted Tanzania Miller, 38, of Orlando, Florida, of conspiracy, four counts of bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CARLOS ALBERTO RIVERA-MELENDEZ, age 39, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that 10 individuals are charged by criminal complaint with operating a heroin trafficking ring on the West Side of Buffalo. The defendants are...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - Glacier National Park welcomes three new members to its leadership team. Jill Lewis will join as Administrative Officer, Eric Smith as Deputy Superintendent, and Mary Wysong as Chief of Concessions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Arthur Office, 45, of Houston, TX, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy. Office pleaded guilty on April 1, 2015, to conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 280 grams or more of cocaine base.
