News from October 2015
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Theodore Roosevelt Birthday Celebration- Stargazing at Sagamore Hill.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Mychi Michelle Jones (30, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to manufacturing and possessing counterfeit business checks. She faces a maximum penalty of up to 25 years in federal prison for the manufacturing charge and up to 10 years’ imprisonment on the possession charge. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY-This Halloween, Women's Rights National Historical Park will host a lecture by Dr. Cynthia J. Koepp, Professor of History at Wells College. Dr. Koepp's talk, "Examining a Stereotype: Women and the Witchcraze, 1560-1690," analyzes the connections between the invention of the printing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Andrew A. Rooks (58, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to two separate conspiracies to commit mail and wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count, plus a fine of twice the amount of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport has returned a three-count indictment charging ALEX GARCIA, 37, of Danbury, with murder, assault and a firearms offense related to the Jan. 17, 2000 murder of Mark Rebong in Danbury.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Darrin Cates, 46, of Winslow, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S District Court to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Thomas S. Duszkiewicz and Michael J. Adler, who are handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, on Oct. 20, 2015, Neal sold a quantity of heroin. The following day, on Oct. 21, 2015, Neal once again agreed to sell a quantity of heroin. The defendant left...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: IRWIN, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation extended the completion date for a construction project at Palisades Dam to replace aging overhead utilities with an underground system. The project is now expected to be finished by the end of November.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Cornelius J. Gaymon, 35, of Norfolk, a 10-time convicted felon, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin. Co-conspirator Tedrick O. Speller, 33, of Norfolk, was sentenced to 84 months in prison on Oct. 5, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Dunbar Literary Circle. Quarried: Three Decades of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel. A reading from the anthology of contemporary Appalachian literature, Quarried: Three Decades of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel. A project of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel has given...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: DANBURY, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deidre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport has returned a three-count indictment charging Alex...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: DAYTON - Michael Epley, 30, of Troy was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 240 months each on one count of production of child pornography and one count of coercing and enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - James T. Hammes, 53, formerly of Lexington, Kentucky, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of wire fraud and has agreed to pay nearly $7.7 million in restitution, specifically, approximately $6.7 million to G & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. and $1 million to Cincinnati Insurance Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27. 10: 0 a.m. Full Committee Markup. H.R. 3279 , the “Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act". H.R. 2834 , To enact certain laws relating to the environment as title 55, United States Code, “Environment". 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28. (POSTPONED) 9: 0 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: The two cases are unrelated -- but demonstrate the lengthy prison sentences being handed down to dangerous individuals with weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin announced that MOZAFFAR KHAZAEE, 61, formerly of Manchester, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 97 months...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Following a robust public process, the National Park Service today published regulations which restrict certain sport hunting practices in national preserves in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Texas man pleaded guilty Friday to selling designer drugs manufactured in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court on Oct. 22, 2015, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced BRYANT FIGUEROA, 32, of Greenville, North Carolina, to 60 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. FIGUEROA previously pled guilty to this charge on July 15, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today asked the Government Accountability Office - the nation’s nonpartisan watchdog - to complete a review of the management of the Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement...
