News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Pawtucket, R.I. man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston with trafficking in counterfeit drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - Two Longview, Texas men have pleaded guilty to their involvement in a Daingerfield Bank Robbery announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Concord, New Hampshire-JAMES WHINNEM, 35, formerly of Manchester and Somersworth, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Landya B. McCafferty for committing three robberies in November 2014, Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced. The Court imposed a term of 10 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by a 3 year term of supervised release, and ordered WHINNEM to pay restitution in the amount of $11,419.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Goods Sold on eBay Account Valued at over $2.5 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Edward King, Jr., 43, of Falling Waters, West Virginia, was convicted of cocaine trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Australian man, who ran the third largest car dealership in the United States before he fled the country 27 years ago, pleaded guilty late yesterday afternoon to federal charges for bank fraud and lying to banks.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct a prescribed burn in the Trail Gulch area, approximately 15 miles northwest of Canon City between Shelf Road and High Park Road in northern Fremont County.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - B Brian K. Dalton, 35, was sentenced late yesterday, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, to serve 12 years in federal prison for distribution of crack cocaine and illegal possession of a firearm by a felon, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. Dalton remains on bond and was ordered to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons on Feb. 9, 2016, to begin serving his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Pennsylvania man stopped on a highway in Kansas with more than 13 pounds of cocaine was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Agriculture Under Secretary Lisa Mensah today encouraged rural small businesses to apply for loans and grants to support renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - Although Hurricane Joaquin moved further east out into the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Lookout National Seashore still endured a slow moving upper level low and associated Nor' easter-type surface low. This weather system brought significant amounts of rainfall and very high tides to an already very saturated region.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A federal grand jury in Rockford returned a superseding indictment today charging seven individuals, six men and a woman, with conspiring to manufacture, possess and distribute 1,000 or more marijuana plants. The superseding indictment charges four individuals, JEREMIAH N. CLEMENT, 37, of...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Oct. 6, 2015BOS 2015-189. Employer name: Big Lots Stores Inc. Inspection site: 10 Newbury St., Danvers, Mass. 01923. What prompted inspection: An assistant manager was hospitalized after boxes of patio furniture and other stock, weighing up to 53 pounds each, fell and struck him in the store's rear...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced two members of the Grape Street Crips gang admitted their roles in a two-year conspiracy to distribute crack-cocaine in and around Newark, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Thomas E. Bishop, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Beginning October 6, 2015 National Park Service (NPS) work crews will begin the first phase of a Federal Highways funded project to improve the NPS owned portion of the Dyea Flats road and the public access between the Slide Cemetery and the Lost Lake Trailhead. The project goal is to improve road surface and drainage. Improvements will include elevating the road surface, increasing culvert drainage and adding widened turn-outs for safe passing lanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. -- On Oct. 6, 2015, Daniel Martinez, Jr., 39, of Morristown, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge. Upon his release from prison, Martinez will serve a 10 year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two members of the Grape Street Crips gang admitted their roles in a two-year conspiracy to distribute crack-cocaine in and around Newark, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS - Two former Anamosa State Penitentiary correctional officers have been charged with federal offenses, while two others will be charged in state court. The criminal activity surrounding these charges involved accepting money to smuggle cell phones into the prison for prisoner use, being...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W. Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that William A. Cracraft, 52, of Oak Hill, West Virginia was sentenced to twelve months and one day in federal prison for Possession of Child Pornography. Cracraft’s incarceration will be followed by 25 years of supervised release, and...
