News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Attorney Ben Wagner held a roundtable discussion today with Muslim and Sikh community leaders and senior law enforcement officials to discuss community concerns over potential bias incidents and hate crimes, the need for reporting by victims of those incidents, and the need...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Garry Christopher Forsythe, 42, of Hendersonville, Tenn., was sentenced today to 33 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. U.S. District Court Judge Aleta A. Trauger imposed the sentence, and also ordered Forsythe to pay $2,249,294.80 in restitution and to forfeit the proceeds of his crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Both Convicted in Sex Trafficking Conspiracy Involving 12-Year-Old Female Victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Daniel Albert Crowninshield, 53, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully manufacturing and dealing in firearms and possession of an unregistered machinegun, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: California Man Pleads Guilty to Manufacturing Guns and Dealing in Firearms and Possession of a Machinegun.
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the second anniversary of the kidnapping of the Chibok school girls and the humanitarian situation in northeastern Nigeria...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Cristopher Sheldon Miller, 41, of San Leandro, California, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 36 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identify theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Miller to pay $70,590.96 in restitution. Miller pleaded guilty to the charges on Jan. 27, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Kenneth O’Neal Batten was sentenced today to serve 300 months in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a child, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell ordered Batten to be placed on supervised release for the remainder of his life.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Grand Canyon National Park invites the public to celebrate the 46th anniversary of Earth Day during National Park Week on Friday, April 22, 2016.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Since the 1970s, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has gradually expanded the permitted use of flight simulation for training. Two new agency rules dealing with simulators and aviation training devices will improve airline pilots’ response to a number of unusual situations they may encounter, and give pilots more credit toward the requirements for an instrument rating.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A seventeen (17)-count federal indictment was unsealed today in the District of Puerto Rico charging twenty-one (21) defendants with racketeering, conspiracy to commit bank robbery, burglary and larceny, interference with commerce by robbery (Hobbs Act), carjacking, conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Hector Luis Arias-Ramirez, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to a time-served sentence after pleading guilty to a three-count indictment charging him with illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported, misrepresenting a social security number, and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has placed precautionary fire restrictions on certain public lands managed by the Central Coast Field Office. No vehicles, campfires or open flames are allowed on BLM lands in the Panoche, Griswold, Tumey and Ciervo Hills located in southeastern San Benito county, effective April 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Kesia Quinette Jackson, Deanthony L. Foster, and Makisha Renee Sanders have been arraigned on charges of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robber, and use of a firearm during a crime of violence arising from multiple armed robberies of Wal-Mart stores, and a Citgo food mart that took place between May and October, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Melville man was sentenced Tuesday to 120 months in prison for storing child pornography on electronic devices.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace Napolitano (D-CA) introduced legislation that will help communities finance critical clean water infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Galvin (619) 546-9721.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LAVERT LAYMON, age 27, of Gretna, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with the March 31, 2016 robbery of the Whitney Bank branch located at 3740 Elysian Fields.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that ROBERT STUART LEBEN, age 53, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, in connection with an investor...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - An Ohio man who unlawfully possessed a firearm at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been sentenced to federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
