News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Marcus Dewayne Thompson, 28, and his wife, Robin Thompson, 24, from Park Hills, Missouri, were indicted today by a federal Grand Jury in Benton, Illinois, for one count of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud, or coercion, and one count of conspiracy to do the same, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -Cape Lookout National Seashore is pleased to announce the next Horse Sense and Survival trip of 2015 will leave from the Harkers Island Visitor Center on Saturday, September 12 at 10:15 a.m.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is extending the public comment period for the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Southern California Metroplex project by an additional 30 days. The comment period will now run until midnight on Oct. 8.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore, in conjunction with the California Coastal Commission and Point Reyes National Seashore Association, will be sponsoring a beach cleanup at Drakes Beach on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015. The cleanup will take place from 10 am to 2 pm. This is a family friendly event. Participants are encouraged to bring sunscreen, lunch and/or snacks, their own reusable water bottles, garden gloves, and reusable bags or buckets for collecting trash.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that today Cruz E. Galvan pleaded guilty to one count of Federal Employment Tax Evasion in connection with his scheme to dodge federal employment taxes on wages he paid to employees of his Manchester, N.H., dry wall business, Four Star Drywall, LLC. Galvan, age 39, resides in Manchester.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Geoffrey Lee Hungerford, 25, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hungerford pleaded guilty to the charge on June 24, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 36-year-old Baltimore, MD man has pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson has sentenced ALBELK REYES SERRATA, also known as Alberto Reyes, age 26, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to thirty-seven (37) months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy that involved...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Charleston, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Craig Allen Heitkamp, 51, Centralia, Illinois, was sentenced on Friday, September 4, 2015, on Possession of Pseudoephedrine with the Intent to Manufacture Methamphetamine and Unlawful User of a Controlled...
By State Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has convened a hearing entitled “Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran (Part IV)." Information, including testimony from witnesses (General Chuck Wald (USAF, Retired), Admiral William Fallon (USN, Retired), Vice Admiral John Bird (USN, Retired), and Leon Wieseltier), is available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced to 360 months in prison today for inducing a girl to engage in sexually explicit conduct while he took pictures and video, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Senior Republican lawmakers today introduced legislation to roll back the National Labor Relations Board’s “joint employer" decision, which the chairmen of the House and Senate labor committees say “threatens to steal the American dream from owners of the nation’s 780,000 franchise businesses and millions of contractors."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Defendants Admit to Committing Over 200 Felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Rayville man was sentenced Tuesday to 110 months in prison for his role in a vehicle theft ring that stretched from Louisiana to Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bella Vista, Ark., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to a series of a dozen armed robberies at a Missouri bank and 11 other businesses across five states during the summer of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A criminal complaint has been filed charging Rashad Robertson, age 25, of Baltimore, with possession of Alprazolam, a prescription drug stolen during the looting on April 27, 2015 from the CVS Pharmacy located at 2509 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore (CVS Pharmacy). The complaint was filed on Aug. 31, 2015 and unsealed today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Health Care, Benefits and Administrative Rules Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters today to StemExpress and the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) in its ongoing investigation into the use of federal funds in the potentially illegal activity surrounding fetal tissue procurement at Planned Parenthood facilities and affiliates.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that James Miller Johnson, III, 27, of Parkersburg, West Virginia pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Johnson admitted that on Aug. 14, 2014, he sold cocaine base and heroin to...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: A long period southwesterly swell is bringing an increased risk of rip currents and large shore break along the south facing beaches of Marin County today and through this evening. Beaches affected include, but are not limited to, Drakes and Limantour Beaches within Point Reyes National Seashore and Stinson Beach within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
