News from September 2015
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Park entrance fee waived for students and their families through Aug. 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Defendant Trafficked Marijuana in the Ramah Navajo Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team will resume research trapping operations for grizzly bears within Grand Teton National Park beginning Tuesday, September 8 through Oct. 19, 2015. Scientific research and trapping operations at Grand Teton have been underway since this spring as part of ongoing efforts required under the Endangered Species Act to collect data and monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: A Cahokia man, Jeremy L. Harris, 25, of Cahokia, Illinois, convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of federal law, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Harris was...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Stafford S. Maxwell, the former owner and Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Capital Exchange, Inc., was sentenced to three years, nine months years in prison for orchestrating a multi-million dollar foreign exchange market Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 31-year-old man from Mexico has admitted he knowingly transported an illegal alien within the United States for private financial gain, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. As part of the plea, Victor Manuel Moreno-Ruiz, also admitted that during the course of the illegal conduct, a female illegal alien died.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Antietam National Battlefield is proud to help launch the Every Kid in a Park program, as 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 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that OSCAR EDUARDO PENA-TABORA, age 39, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found John Francis Williams (69, Blythewood, SC) guilty of using the Internet to attempt to persuade a minor to engage in sexual activity. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 20, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Made At Least 30 Trips Between Baltimore and Houston, Texas Transporting Cash and Cocaine in Hidden Compartments in Courier Vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Former bank manager Sylvia Ochoa, 33, and Shanne Leavell, 23, both of Orange Cove, were arrested today for an embezzlement scheme that defrauded the Bank of America of over $600,000, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The DEA Washington Field Division, Homeland Security Investigations and the Metropolitan Police Department’s Narcotics and Special Investigations Division announced today the arrests of two individuals in connection with the interception of a 500 package that contained 116 kilos of synthetic...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Phillip M. Weber, 39, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon to 138 months in a federal penitentiary for having committed two bank robberies and for taking by force a car from an Omaha woman later used in one of the robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois, announced today that a federal grand jury in Springfield has returned an indictment charging Niles C. Wray, 34, of the 1600 block of North Foster Avenue, Decatur, Ill., with distribution and possession of child pornography and access of a website with intent to view child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has awarded $10.5 million in one-year federal safety and health training grants to 80 nonprofit organizations across the nation for education and training programs to help high-risk workers and their employers recognize serious workplace hazards, implement injury prevention measures and understand their rights and responsibilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Lexington, Kentucky, woman and Clarksville, Tennessee man were charged by a federal grand jury today with a single count of sex trafficking a 15-year-old female, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that William Harrison Meade, 47, of Branchland, West Virginia, plead guilty in federal court in Charleston today to conspiring to distribute oxycodone. During his plea hearing, Meade admitted that from January of 2010 through January...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: About 265 Pounds of Suspected Synthetic Cannabinoids Seized by Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois, announced that a federal grand jury in Springfield returned an indictment today that charges Sukhwinder Multani, 41, of the 3700 block of N. Ashley Court, Decatur, Ill., with illegal distribution of hydrocodone.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: New National Program Encourages Families and Classes to Visit National Parks.
