News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: United States Obtains $255,000 Settlement of Disability Discrimination Lawsuit Against Continuing Care Retirement Community in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Sept. 28, 2015, Alma Escalante, the last of thirteen members of a Willcox drug trafficking conspiracy, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow. Luis Cruz, 41, Escalante’s husband and the leader of the organization, was previously sentenced to 121 months’...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: AGOURA, CALIF. - Outdoor enthusiasts are invited to attend the National Park Service's second-annual Recreation Festival on Saturday, October 24 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Also known as Rec Fest, this free, family-friendly event will take place at Paramount Ranch in Agoura and will feature several hands-on opportunities to introduce families to the outdoors.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Search-and-rescue rangers safely extracted a pet dog from a 20-foot-deep earth crack in the national park on Sun., Oct. 4 around noon.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Screen on the Green: John Brown's Holy War.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jonathan Cornelius Bourne, 59, of Mammoth Lakes, was arraigned today after a federal grand jury returned a 21-count indictment against him, charging him with violations of the Archeological Resources Protection Act, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued a statement following the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations this week in Atlanta, where United States Trade Representative Michael Froman announced that the 12 TPP countries have reached an agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that Stephen F. Leon Guerrero, an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) for the District of Guam, who is a member of the Guam Air National Guard, was promoted to Major on June 30, 2015, at the Guam National Guard Compound in Barrigada, witnessed by numerous family members, friends and co-workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the Gangster Disciples was sentenced on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015, for his role in a conspiracy to transport drugs and guns between Massachusetts and Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Alicia Martinez, 23, of Columbus, Nebraska, was sentenced on October 5, 2015, to 70 months in prison by Chief United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp. Martinez had previously pled guilty after Columbus police officers executed a search warrant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Terrence Mullen, age 41, of Boonton, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to interstate transportation of property taken by fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES-A Whittier woman was sentenced today to nearly 6 years in prison for her lead role in a scheme that falsely promised to eliminate mortgage debts for approximately 400 distressed homeowners who each paid a $15,000 fee, totaling nearly $4 million in victim payments. Instead of working on behalf of the homeowners, the woman simply sent worthless “Sovereign Citizen" paperwork to lenders-paperwork that did nothing to affect the mortgage of a single homeowner.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: “From time to time, residents of certain neighborhoods have reported their concerns about corner stores being a front for crime," said U.S. Attorney Hochul. As this case demonstrates, law enforcement welcomes such information, and is committed to closing those locations which are engaged in illegal activities.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that that Francisco Sanchez-Hinojosa, age 45, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. imposed a ten-year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a five-year term of court supervision after Sanchez-Hinojosa is released from Federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that the staff of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Guam, donated 80 cases of water for delivery to victims of Supertyphoon Maysak in the State of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia, in April 2015. Senator Frank Blas, 33rd Guam Legislature, coordinated with the Office of the Mayor of the village of Barrigada, Guam regarding the logistics.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Oct. 1, 2015, Richard Tommy Williams, age 28, of Fort Madison, Iowa, was sentenced by United States Senior District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 77 months in prison on the charge of possession of a firearm as a felon, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Williams was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release, and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Brooklyn, New York pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Denver man who flew a plane loaded with marijuana into an airport in Iola, Kan., was sentenced Monday to a year in federal prison followed by a year on supervised release, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. In addition, the Drug Enforcement Administration administratively forfeited his plane, more than $450,000 in cash and two cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Chicago Field Division along with 306 federal, state and local counterparts took in more than 77,000 pounds of unused, expired or unwanted drugs as part of the DEA National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) on Saturday, September 26. This was the 10th NTBI event in the past five years.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement following the successful conclusion of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
