News from September 2015
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -At 4:05 p.m. on Sunday, September 13 the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call reporting that an unidentified male was possibly struck by lightning on the South Kaibab Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On May 2, 2015, the railing at Tumalo Falls in Tumalo, Oregon, was vandalized. The U.S. Forest Service investigated the incident, issued a federal ticket for the violation, and referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. A fine was assessed and restitution was paid to the U.S. Forest Service to repair the railing. The citation is now resolved. The details of the federal ticket are not public record and no further information will be provided.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA:Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a free program on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 3:30 pm along the Brown's Ferry Federal Road Trail on Moccasin Bend.This 90 minute, 1.2 mile walking tour, led by Park Historian Jim Ogden, begins at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Nicholas Huerta, 33, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud for a fraud scheme involving military recruiting bonuses, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brenda Canuelas, 39, and Jesus Rivera, 45, of Providence, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to conspiring with one another to cash between $81,463 and $107,006 worth of stolen United States Treasury checks, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Providence...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: On Sept. 11, 2015, Amye L. Sandidge, 29, of Murphysboro, IL, was sentenced for her involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An American Airlines executive from Texas has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) chaired this hearing. Sen. Johnson submitted the following opening statement for the record...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT LUSTYIK was sentenced today in White Plains federal court by U.S. District Judge Vincent Briccetti to 5 years in prison, to be served consecutively with a ten year federal sentence imposed on him previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A 23-year old former Marshall University running back from Hollywood, Florida pleaded guilty today in federal court in Huntington to cyberstalking, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Kevin LaShawn Grooms, Jr. entered a guilty plea before Chief United States District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: The lightning-caused Spruce Fire, burning in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park since early September, has grown to an estimated 2,119 acres as of 1:30 pm on Sunday. Crews are actively monitoring the fire by air and from lookout points on Mount Washburn and other locations throughout the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: CEO and Senior Vice President of Mobile Aggregation Company Participated in Scheme to Bill Consumers for Fraudulent Text-Messaging Charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs field hearing, “All Hands on Deck: Working Together to End the Trafficking and Abuse of Prescription Opioids, Heroin, and Fentanyl " in Manchester, New Hampshire. Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del) submitted the following statement for the Record...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Robert J. Sica, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the United States Secret Service (“USSS"), announced today the filing of a criminal complaint against TIMOTHY SEDLAK for attempting to gain unauthorized...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Stolen money used to benefit herself and her friends and family.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A settlement was reached today with Healthcare Commons Inc., resolving claims that the South Jersey company failed to re-employ a Delaware woman when she returned from her deployment with the National Guard, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Chairman Jason Chaffetz issued the following statement in response to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) interim status report on OPM’s infrastructure improvement project.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL -U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Gaeton Della Penna (62, Sarasota) to five years and ten months in federal prison for mail and wire fraud related to an investment scheme. As part of his sentence, the court ordered restitution for his victims and entered a money judgment of more than $2.8 million, representing the proceeds of fraud. Della Penna pleaded guilty on May 5, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A Lamesa, Texas, man, Joel Thomas Napper, who did business as Agwest Insurance Agency, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to serve 15 months in federal prison, fined $4,000, and ordered to pay $124,246 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC). The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a cable TV hunting show host and nine other individuals were charged in Fairbanks U.S. District Court and other states for their participation in a multi-year poaching operation on the Noatak National Preserve. According to the...
