News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Versailles Man Indicted for Illegal Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in a Death.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Malcolm Lewis, 38, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced on Sept. 3, 2015, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 106 months incarceration and a 10 year period of supervised release following...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department today announced that 20 small businesses will receive $3.2 million in grants to spur American innovation and competiveness through federally funded research and development from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Billie Jay Rufrano (31, Titusville) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. He was also ordered to pay restitution to two victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ocvatius Qualo, 46, of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a cocaine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former insurance salesman was arrested this morning in connection with the theft of more than $500,000 he stole from three clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Rita Green, 55, of Gahanna, Ohio, with illegally receiving Department of Veterans Affairs Dependency and Indemnity Compensation benefits in an indictment returned in Columbus, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAJUHN GRIFFIN, 26, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport for his role in a smash-and-grab robbery of a Stamford jewelry store in November 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that Cordette Lindell Mottley, 28, of Como, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Michael P. Mills in Oxford, Mississippi, to 211 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release, restitution in the amount of $1200 and a special assessment of $100.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has evaluated current September hydrologic conditions, and due to summer precipitation and participation in the Water User Mitigation Program, has identified a limited supply of additional water available for delivery to lands in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Officials from the Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Colorado Region have temporarily closed access to the river raft launch near Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, due to an estimated 500,000 pound rock slab that is beginning to slide from the canyon wall and into the river below.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments are proud to help launch the Every Kid in a Park program, part of President Obama's commitment to protect our nation's unique outdoor spaces and ensure that every American has the opportunity to visit and enjoy them.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: New York Man Sentenced in Missoula to More Than 16 Years in Prison for Child Pornography Crime.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Fort Frederica National Monument is pleased to announce the selection of Site Manager, Steve Theus.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Dwayne K. Thompson, 38, of Chicago, IL, and Fetara D. McCarter, 31, of Belleville, IL, entered pleas of guilty this week to charges of Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Attempted Distribution of Heroin. McCarter pled guilty in the United States District Court in East St. Louis, IL on Sept. 3, 2015, and Thompson on September 4, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - David M. Treadwell and Austin Herring have been sentenced in separate cases arising from their former employment with the Hall County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office. Treadwell is a former deputy sheriff who accepted a bribe to tip off a person he believed was a drug dealer if the person...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: The Star Party on Cadillac Mountain will take place from 8 to 11 pm on Saturday, Sept. 12, with a free "Shuttle to the Stars" departing from Mount Desert Island High School. The public is invited to drop in at any time during the program to visit with volunteer astronomers who will describe constellations and other night sky features visible with the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes.The best star viewing time will be after 9 pm.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Grand Teton National Park invites all fourth-grade students to visit the park for free as part of the White House's new Every Kid in a Park program. Fourth-grade students can visit.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Gregory Hall, doing business as Virtue Cider, satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A multi-year investigation into the Nine Trey Gangsters Bloods criminal street gang, a set of the East Coast United Blood Nation, concluded yesterday as the final defendant in the district wide investigation pleaded guilty.
