News from September 2015
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Sharpsburg, MD -C&O Canal NHP will be hosting a unique Living History event in the area around Ferry Hill Plantation and Lock 38 on the C&O Canal on Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20, just across the Potomac River from Shepherdstown, WV. This event will not only commemorate the 153rdAnniversary...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SAMUEL L. WHITESIDE pled guilty on Sept. 10, 2015, in Manhattan federal court to traveling interstate to commit murder to further his prostitution business, and to persuading, inducing, enticing, and coercing women to travel interstate to engage in prostitution. He pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Road construction at the South Entrance Station and Hermit Road will begin Sept. 21, 2015. Grand Canyon National Park visitors and local residents may experience short traffic delays or temporary closures. Visitors and residents should obey all traffic control signs and directions and be alert for workers on the road.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: On Sept. 11, 2015, Antuan D. Perkins, a/k/a "Little Man," was sentenced for a federal drug violation, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Joe Eugene Loving (46, Texas) has pleaded guilty to manufacturing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes, false representation of a Social Security number, and aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: The leader of a group that brought large shipments of heroin from Atlanta and Chicago and sold it around the East Side of Cleveland was sentenced to life in prison, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Leonard Arthur "Lenny" Kolberg, Jr., 57, of Bangor, Michigan, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for defrauding federal farm programs of more than $500,000. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Wade Highland, 45, of Lost Creek, West Virginia, and Darius Henning, 24, of Clarksburg, were sentenced today in federal court for unlawful possession of firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced that combined federal, state, and local efforts to combat prescription drug abuse has resulted in a federal grand jury indictment charging three individuals in a prescription drug and cocaine distribution conspiracy. The Indictment alleges...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Louisiana resident pleaded guilty to selling firearms to an out-of-state resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBIRG, WEST VIRGINIA - Nathaniel Walker, 33, of Miami, Florida, was convicted of oxycodone trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Hog hunting season opens Saturday, Sept. 26, in Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Come participate in a 45 minute informative program about this nonnative species; find out how hogs got in the park and why the Big South Fork is one of the very few national parks that allows them...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joshua Hicks, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today to robbing the US Bank Branch located on Carlisle Blvd. NE in Albuquerque, in Jan. 2015. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the Grape Street Crips street gang today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin in and around Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service celebrated its 99th birthday on Aug. 25, and in honor of this milestone, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area recently hosted a combined birthday celebration and unveiling of the winners of the park's first annual photography contest on Labor Day weekend. The Art in the Park reception celebration featured refreshments, complete with birthday cake and live bluegrass music by South Sycamore.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former Worcester tax preparer was sentenced today for filing false tax returns with the IRS.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Sept. 14 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Wilkes-Barre man pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Scranton, before United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to a federal heroin trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Nixa, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for sexually exploiting two children to produce child pornography, which she distributed over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - Dennis Pinckney, 23, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to seven months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. Pinckney previously pled guilty in May of 2015 admitting that he had travelled with two other males...
