News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, announced that HAROON ASWAT was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Katherine B. Forrest to 20 years in prison for terrorism offenses...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles, announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina is proud to join the Aiken Department of Public Safety and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers’ Association (SCLEOA) as a host for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Waxahachi, Texas, resident and former chief financial officer (CFO) of Arrow Trucking Company was sentenced today to serve 35 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The United States Attorney’s Office announced it has closed its investigation of Safety Net, a former representative payee for Social Security beneficiaries, without the filing of criminal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - The Department of Justice has awarded the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles $600,000 through a Bureau of Justice Assistance grant to expand the Alabama Certain Enforcement Supervision program to four additional intensive supervision pilot sites across Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Michael Eugene Simpson, age 35, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced late last week to 240 months (20 years) in federal prison for gun and drug charges U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Ken Croke announced. The defendant was also ordered to spend 3 years on supervised release after serving his prison sentence. He was remanded into custody at the end of the sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - On Oct. 14, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging four individuals with participating in a conspiracy to interfere with commerce by threats or violence, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, stealing firearms, and prohibited person in...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: TUPELO, MS-The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.on Oct. 24, 2015. The presentations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to 1840.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE ALEXANDER LOPEZ-LOPEZ, age 34, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Jasper McWilliams, age 48, of Dundalk, Maryland today to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: A man who distributed a mixture of heroin and fentanyl to another individual who then overdosed in a convenience store pled guilty on Oct. 15, 2015, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Moss Bluff man was sentenced Thursday to 98 months in prison for operating a marijuana sales and transport conspiracy that stretched from Texas to Louisiana.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement today on the Department of the Interior’s announcement that they will, in light of current market conditions and low industry interest, cancel two potential Arctic offshore lease...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial (PEVI) will host two open houses to discuss a possible fee increase in 2016. The park proposes an increase to the Memorial Column entrance fee. The current entrance fee of $3.00 has been in place since 1997. In 2007 PEVI postponed a scheduled fee increase...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A man from Katy has been ordered to federal prison to serve a 71-month sentence following his conviction of a federal hate crime related to the racially-motivated assault of an 81-year-old African-American man, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, along with Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI - Houston Division.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management announced a public scoping period for travel and transportation management in the White River Field Office in northwestern Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Vahan Kelerchian, 56, of Richboro, Pennsylvania, doing business as Armament Services International “ASI", was found guilty of a multitude of charges relating to the acquisition of machineguns and restricted laser aiming sites, late Thursday evening after a two-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Vahan Kelerchian, 56, of Richboro, Pennsylvania, doing business as Armament Services International “ASI", was found guilty of a multitude of charges relating to the acquisition of machineguns and restricted laser aiming sites, late Thursday evening after a two-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Fourteen Federal Defendants Were Initially Arrested Following the Execution of Federal and State Search Warrants.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday October 24th and 25th from 11am to 4pm, park visitors are invited to join the Living History staff and volunteers for “Drink Your Apples: Roeder’s Tavern Cider Making, 1860." Make cider at Roeder’s White Hall Tavern on Potomac Street. This time- honored tradition produced the most popular 19th century beverages for men, women & children.
