News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Nicholas Selser, 33, of Cranston, R.I., has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for manufacturing (meth) inside a residence of the D’Evan Manor housing complex in Cranston, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Cranston Police Chief Colonel Michael J. Winquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Denis B.L. Kearney, age 32, of Mauldin, South Carolina, was sentenced to 77 months for conspiracy to steal mail, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, and for making a false statement to purchase a...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who assisted in the distribution of prescription pills on multiple occasions in July 2014 was given five years of probation announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Eric Lawrence Silverstein, 39, previously pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington January of 2015 to distributing oxymorphone before Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA-North Cascades National Park Service Complex invites all 4th grade students to visit the parkas part of the White House’s new Every Kid in a Park program. Starting Sept. 1, 4thgrade students can now go to www.everykidinapark.gov to complete an activity and obtain a free annual entry pass to more than 2,000 federal recreation areas, including national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Vancouver, WA - Aaron Porter, a 2014 graduate of Western Washington University, will help prepare Fort Vancouver National Historic Site for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016. He is one of 70 energetic, young Centennial Volunteer Ambassador interns recently selected to spend the next year connecting local communities to parks through volunteer group service opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Jazzmyn Rochon Litzy, aka Zoe, 35, from Cabell County, West Virginia, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today to six months in prison, followed by six months of home confinement for a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Anthony Curtis Beckley II, 34, previously pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to possessing oxycodone with the intent to distribute it. Beckley admitted that on October 7, 2013, he possessed over 200 oxycodone pills that he intended to sell.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A stock promoter from Woburn was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston with securities fraud in connection with his participation in a scheme to manipulate the market for the publicly traded stock of a microcap company.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Law enforcement agencies in Kansas will receive more than $593,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services program, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Monday. The grants are aimed at expanding community based policing as recommended by the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), today announced that the COPS Office has awarded $1.5 million to the City of Waterbury to fund 12 law enforcement positions. The award is part of more than $107 million in funds awarded this year through the COPS Hiring Program (CHP) to create and protect numerous law enforcement positions across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) a funding award to Metropolitan Dade County, in the Southern District of Florida, aimed at creating, and in some cases protecting twenty-five (25) Miami-Dade County Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Texas man has pled guilty to maintaining a scheme that defrauded a labor service provider of $300,000. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (“COPS") will be awarding a total of $3.375 million in federal funds to two Arizona police departments: Phoenix and South Tucson. These funds are intended to create and protect 27 law enforcement positions in Arizona and are part of a $107 million nationwide funding effort.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: City of Sacramento to Receive $599,756.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - Today, U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) funding awards to 3 agencies in the Eastern District of North Carolina, aimed at creating, and in some cases protecting, 9 law enforcement positions. Over $107 million will be awarded nationally, through the COPS Hiring Program (CHP), including $1,075,523 for the Eastern District.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Patrick Emanuel Sutherland, 47, of Charlotte, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte for filing false tax returns and obstructing a federal grand jury investigation, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The indictment was returned on Sept. 17, 2015, and was unsealed today in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: ALLENTOWN - Cori Merklinger, 24, of Reading, PA, was sentenced today to 27.5 years in prison for conspiracy to produce child pornography, three counts of production of child pornography, and one count of distribution of child pornography. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge James Knoll Gardner ordered 15 years of supervised release, a $500 special assessment, and $2300 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Logan Child Care and Resource Center and its chief executive officer, Tyron Ali (collectively referred to as “Logan"), have agreed to pay $63,167.50 to resolve allegations that Logan violated...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kinmonte Markell Brown, 28 and Dennis Wells, 24, of Greenville, North Carolina pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on Friday to trafficking more than a dozen firearms from North Carolina into Providence between November 2014 and January 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Guilty Plea in First Federal Securities Fraud Case Involving a Bitcoin-Related Scheme.
