News from September 2015
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Sept. 10, 2015 BOS 2015-165. Employer name: Plainville Plating Co. Inc., an electroplating facility located at 21 Forrestville Ave. in Plainville, Connecticut. Citations issued: On Sept. 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued two repeat and 11 serious...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Wayne Niski, 28, of South Portland, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to sexually exploiting a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey man today admitted he defrauded the Department of Veterans Affairs of over $150,000 in disability benefits over a 13-year period, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Jaime Velasco-Jimenez, age 37, a citizen of Mexico who most recently resided illegally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment today for his role in a counterfeit identification document ring. Velasco-Jimenez...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of Joshua Ryne Goldberg (20, Orange Park, Florida) for distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Damarcus Hennings, 24, Shaquata Hennings, 28, Arthur Clark, 27, Shahana Beaver, 23, and Janice Humphrey, 26, all of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute marijuana and launder money...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Mark W. Wolfe, 50, of Sunbury, Ohio, with distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a bank fraud conspiracy that used stolen mail and fake identifications to cash nearly $160,000 in fraudulent checks in Webster County, Mo., and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ira Grayson, 29, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 42 months after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that MATTHEW EUGENE TRIPLETT, age 44, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment, followed by 36 months of supervised release for CONSPIRACY TO INTERFERE WITH COMMERCE BY ROBBERY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement for the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission briefing on migration in Honduras...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Two men from Northeast Ohio were indicted for illegally having firearms, 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 Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: A new wildland fire is burning in Yellowstone National Park. The Spruce fire, discovered Wednesday, September 9, by the park helicopter, is estimated to be a tenth of an acre in size. It is located in a wooded area ten miles west of Fishing Bridge and two miles south of Hayden Valley in the central portion...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Seandarius Savage (21), a resident of Montgomery, was sentenced on Sept. 3, 2015, by visiting United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr., from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida to 465 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for federal carjacking, drug crimes, and gun crimes, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Robert Pierre, 35, of Rochester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - An aftermarket auto parts distributor in Harahan, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to manufacturing and selling over 800 copyright-infringing copies of Mercedes-Benz diagnostic software valued at over $17 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Senior District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. has sentenced Chad Heins (41, Nekoosa, Wisconsin) to one year and one day in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States. He was also ordered to pay $287,533.53 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Heins pleaded guilty on March 23, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Central Valley Project Municipal and Industrial Water Shortage Policy. The CVP M&I WSP would be used by Reclamation to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Modesto man was sentenced today to 23.5 years in prison for producing child pornography, and a Shasta County man was sentenced today to eight years and one month in prison for receiving child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that resulted in the shooting deaths of three persons during a home invasion in Independence and the shooting of a 12-year-old boy in the home.
