News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans man pleaded guilty today to two federal gun crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Christopher Ayash, 47, entered his guilty plea to possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and to possession of six firearms in furtherance of a federal drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on April 11, 2016, by United States District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing examining how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is safeguarding private taxpayer information this filing season and to determine what improvements may be necessary for the agency to fully protect taxpayers from cybercriminals...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Robert Lohr (72, Bradenton) to 21 months in federal prison for conspiracy to smuggle misbranded and counterfeit drugs into the United States. The Court also entered an order forfeiting Lohr’s interest in approximately $926,466, the proceeds of the conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: THURMONT, Md. - Weather permitting Catoctin Mountain Park will conduct a prescribed fire on the 13 acre Quarters 5 property during the period of April 15-16, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is hosting a workshop on April 25, 2016, to help Alaska Native communities identify opportunities to engage with federal agencies to advance their energy projects and address energy and climate challenges. The event will be held in conjunction with the Alaska Rural Energy Conference, which takes place April 26-28 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: The paper offsite link, published in the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, is part of an effort to explain the unusual mortality event in the Gulf involving bottlenose dolphins, between early 2010 and continuing into 2014. The investigations into both the fetal dolphin deaths, and the overall effects of the oil spill, are continuing. The long-term effects of the spill on dolphin reproduction are still unknown.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC-Cape Lookout National Seashore and the Friends of Portsmouth Island would like to invite the public to the Portsmouth Homecoming on Saturday, April 30, 2016, in historic Portsmouth Village. Held every two years, this year's event honors "The Families of Portsmouth" and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service and the 50th anniversary of Cape Lookout National Seashore.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comment on the proposed Arizona Heritage Trail within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on lands managed by Reclamation and the National Park Service (NPS). The proposed Trail’s approximately 3.5-mile-long hardened-surface trail would...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Defendant Arrested, Caught With Loaded Gun, Last Summer.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed a Notice to Show Cause under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against The Alphas Company Inc. USDA alleges that the company, operating from Massachusetts, is unfit to be licensed under PACA in that the company and its president engaged in practices of a character prohibited by PACA.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was arrested today for allegedly soliciting an underage girl to produce images of herself engaged in sexually explicit conduct and send the images to him through an online instant messaging application, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the History Revealed presentation by Dr. Ricardo T. Jose, Professor of History at the University of the Philippines, originally scheduled for April 30, at the T. Stell Newman Visitor Center has been cancelled. We anticipate rescheduling his presentation regarding the Philippines in World War II, later in the year. For more information, call 688-9703.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An indictment unsealed here today charges a Wichita police lieutenant with making fraudulent reports so she would be paid for working a part-time job while she was on duty, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - As the White House and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday hosted 19 American companies committed to eliminating hiring barriers for people with criminal records, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said she is proud that government and corporate leaders in the Birmingham area already are working to provide a pathway for a second chance to the thousands of people coming out of Alabama prisons each year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today recognized crime victim survivors, advocates and allied professionals at the National Crime Victims’ Rights Service Awards ceremony. This year’s event honored 10 individuals and programs for their extraordinary actions to bring positive and lasting change in the lives of crime victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: On April 4, 2016, Rosa E. Castrillón-Sánchez, a resident of Puerto Rico, was sentenced to 159 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $5 million in restitution to victims affected by a scheme to defraud individuals and financial institutions on the island.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced that a former public health employee with the Ascension Parish Health Unit was recently sentenced to federal prison for her involvement in an extensive identity theft and tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: A Guatemalan man who unlawfully used the Social Security number of a U.S. citizen was sentenced yesterday to more than two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: A Richfield Township man pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally dealing firearms after he sold approximately 300 firearms over a three-year period, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Donald J. Soranno, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF’s Columbus Field Division.
