News from October 2015
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Ajo, Arizona -Effective Oct. 1, 2015 registration for Alamo Canyon Primitive Campground at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument will take place at the campground itself, instead of at the Kris Eggle Visitor Center. Campers will no longer have to register in person at the Visitor Center, and will be able to self-register 24 hours a day at the campground.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: On Oct. 1, 2015, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will implement an updated fee amount for the processing of Applications for Permit to Drill (APDs). The updated APD fee of $9,500 was set by Congress in the Fiscal_Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, and replaces the $6,500 processing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Kasiem Williams, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO Conspiracy, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. In addition, Leslie Cunningham, 44...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Mohammad Nawaz Khan, 60, today to 12 and a half years in prison for his role in a $14 million unemployment and disability benefits fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - A federal judge sentenced Angel Iturbe-Gonzales, 37, of Mexico, to 151 months in federal prison, followed by five years supervised release for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The sentences for both counts will run concurrently. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen issued the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Darius Raymond Stewart, age 21, of Baltimore, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with malicious destruction of a commercial building, arising from the arson of a liquor store on April 27, 2015, during the riots following the death of Freddie Gray. One victim was trapped ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Richard Arias-Aquasvivas, of the Dominican Republic, has pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment alleging that he misrepresented a social security number while attempting to get a New Hampshire drivers license at the Nashua office of the New Hampshire Department of Motor Vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), today announced a $932,805 grant to the N.J. State Parole Board to help reduce the recidivism of individuals reentering their communities after incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Defendants Took Over Residential Apartments to Facilitate Drug Dealing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: William J. Wells Charged with Defrauding Over Thirty Individual Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WAYNE WILLIAMS, age 37, of River Ridge, was charged today in a two-count Bill of Information with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kimberly Jones, 50, of West Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and agreed to submit to a restitution order of at least $1.5 million, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: It’s important at the outset of this hearing to make sure that everyone is on the same page with respect to the topic at hand. In my view, there are two issues, which are related but distinct. The first is improper payments, which are payments that are too big, too small, or documented the wrong way.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON--The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 19-year-old Alabama man was sentenced to 18 months in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton, for playing a minor role in a single heroin transaction in October 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two brothers were arrested today on federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges that allege they used a bogus pharmacy to obtain and distribute large quantities of prescription narcotics, including OxyContin, to black-market customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Kan. - -James Shroba, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration announced today that a California man who was arrested in Kansas with 15 pounds of heroin was sentenced Monday to 46 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today charging Aaron Dashawn Caple, 23, of Philadelphia, PA, in a fraud scheme involving bad checks and social media. Caple is charged with four counts of bank fraud and 22 counts of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: New Haven - U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly, ATF Special Agent in Charge Daniel J. Kumor and New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman today announced federal murder, racketeering, firearms, narcotics and money laundering charges against several members and associates of the Red Side Guerilla Brims, a violent New Haven street gang. In 2011 and early 2012, members and associates of the gang are alleged to have committed six murders and four attempted murders.
