News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen Loeffler announced today that on Oct. 19, 2015, Donald Ray Thornlow, a former resident of Ketchikan, Alaska, pled guilty in federal court in Juneau to violating the Lacey Act by commercially purchasing halibut that was caught for subsistence and sport purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Jeremy Warner, a Fort Worth man who pleaded guilty in July to one count of possession of cocaine base (crack cocaine) with the intent to distribute, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 300 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Names Veteran Prosecutor James Dinan as Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: On Jan. 21, 2015, a person met Caraballo and Guerra to purchase cocaine, heroin and a firearm. The person was shown the firearm and told that they had to go get cocaine.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today regarding a new study that found that women have higher levels of triphenyl phosphate (TPHP), a potentially harmful chemical used in a number of popular nail polish brands, in their bodies just 10 to 14...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced witnesses for the Committee’s hearing on the federal regulation of agriculture biotechnology.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today regarding a new study that found that women have higher levels of triphenyl phosphate (TPHP), a potentially harmful chemical used in a number of popular nail polish brands, in their bodies just 10 to 14...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Today, United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill sentenced three defendants in two cases for trafficking methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: On Oct. 15, 2015, Jessie J. Sheridan, 34, of Steeleville, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management officials are planning a series of controlled burns within the Cades Cove area of the park. Weather permitting, burn operations could begin as early as Monday, Oct. 26, and may continue intermittently through mid-November. Fire managers have identified...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 19, 2015, Larry Thomas Williams, 67, of Mendota, Va., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 140 months in federal prison for his role in an extensive marijuana distribution conspiracy centered in the Eastern District of Tennessee and Western District of Virginia, with sources of supply in and around the Los Angeles, Cal., area.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: WEST BRANCH, IOWA-Dr. Richard Baker continues his series of lectures about geology in our national parks with presentations about Grand Teton (November 4), Death Valley (January 13), and Rocky Mountain (February 10). The lectures are free and last about one hour. Meet at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Obtained More Than $400,000 Worth of Gift Cards from Grocery Stores in Five States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - ECL Solutions Limited, Inc., doing business as Ban-Air Storage Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of a privately-held British company (“ECL"), pleaded guilty today to conspiring to smuggle goods into the United States, in connection with a scheme to conceal the country of origin of its merchandise. U.S District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones II immediately ordered the company to pay a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $1,066,132.10.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, today announced the filing of a Complaint and Consent Judgment in United States v. City of New York, Civil Action No. CV-15-5986 to settle violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12134-34 (the ADA), in the City’s homeless shelter system.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today regarding a new study that found that women have higher levels of triphenyl phosphate (TPHP), a potentially harmful chemical used in a number of popular nail polish brands, in their bodies just 10 to 14...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: On Oct. 14, 2015, Randall A. Miller, 25, of Percy, pled guilty to one-count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Qaaim Clark, 34, and Reginald Maurice Teasley, Jr., 38, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were sentenced today in federal court for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Owner of Pennsylvania Diet Supplement Business Sentenced to 30 Months Imprisonment for Selling Misbranded Drugs as Weight Loss Products over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Lonnie C. Mathenia, a 50-year old, Granite City, Illinois, man was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2015, in federal district court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Mathenia was sentenced to 15 months in prison; 5 years’ supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.
