News from October 2015
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Bark beetles continue to be active within Rocky Mountain National Park, impacting large numbers of conifer trees. Mitigation of the effects of beetles is focused on removing hazard trees and hazard fuels related to the protection of life and property. For several years, Rocky Mountain National Park has...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Kevin Mooneyham, 47, former Chief of Police for the City of Woodbury, Tennessee, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Kevin H. Sharp to serve eight months in federal prison for theft of federal program funds, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Mooneyham...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The former Treasurer of a Charlotte area non-profit organization appeared in court today and admitted to stealing more than $344,262 from his employer, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Floyd Kevan Weaver, 53, of Rock Hill, S.C. pleaded guilty to one count of uttering counterfeit and forged securities before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced former letter carrier Takisha Cole, age 33, of Washington, D.C. today to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, use of a communications device to facilitate drug trafficking and bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - United States Attorney Edward Tarver announced that on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, students in public schools throughout the Southern District of Georgia will join with students from across the nation to participate in the first annual Student Pledge Against Gun Violence Day.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Deer Spotlight Surveys. National Park Service personnel will be conducting deer spotlight surveys from 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. during the week of Oct. 26, 2015.The purpose of the surveys is to obtain a current deer population density estimate for the park.All roads that are within or along the boundary...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former registered representative at a now-defunct Sherman Oaks brokerage and investment firm was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison on wire fraud charges associated with a real estate investment scam that resulted in about five dozen investors losing nearly $4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Two Former Swisher Hygiene Inc. Executives Indicted on Securities Fraud and Obstruction of Justice Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Darryl Green, a/k/a “Showboat," age 47, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for a robbery conspiracy and for committing a robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY- Come celebrate Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 200th birthday with Mrs.Stanton and her friends! On November 14th Women's Rights National Historical Park will commemorate Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life and legacy with an evening full of special events.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Austin Romain, a former New York City Correction Officer, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 41 months in prison for narcotics, bribery, and honest services fraud offenses...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: At an event held today at the Howard County Conservancy in Woodstock, Maryland, NOAA announced that 12 institutions in Maryland will receive a total of roughly $850,000 in fiscal year 2015 funding through the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program, while 13 Virginia programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Kari E. Brandenburg, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Gorden Eden, Jr., of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) announced that Thomas Martinez, 26, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arraigned this morning on an indictment charging him with violating the federal carjacking and firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Darnell Roy Baker, a.k.a. "Forty," 26, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison, followed by 4 years’ supervised release, a $500 fine and a $500 special assessment. Specifically...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Due to overnight storm damage, some roads within Lake Mead National Recreation Area are closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES SCOTT, 37, formerly of New Britain, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of escape from federal custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON CHICKOS, 46, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to seven years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, on her conviction of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Antwyne Warren, 38, of Centreville, Illinois, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge David R. Herndon to 120 months in federal prison for four felonies he committed in July 2013:...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: A former Miami Dade College (MDC) student was sentenced to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $30,967 for his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme involving his student financial services account.
