News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: A grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Omar A. Hasan, 55, of Cleveland, with three counts of bank robbery, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sergio Escobedo, 37, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as the Food Stamp Program.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the confirmation of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson as United States Ambassador to Mexico...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS, age 32, and VINCENT JONES, age 46, both of New Orleans, were sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Darryl Wesley Clements, age 50, of Detroit, Michigan, and Rodney Patrick Dunn, age 40, of Elkridge, Maryland, with conspiring to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud, arising from a scheme to defraud lenders from February to August 2011 in order to obtain financing for a movie.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on impediments imposed by federal land management regimes in securing the international borders of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: David H. Six, 56, of Elyria, was charged with possessing child pornography, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On April 27, 2016, Sterling Sonny Yazzie, 41, of Cove, Arizona, a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 80 months in prison. Yazzie had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Earl Brown, Sr., 54, of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and money laundering conspiracy, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $10,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Women's Rights National Historical Park, in partnership with the National Women's Hall of Fame, invites the public to attend a panel discussion titled, "Running the Rough Road to Equality: a True History of the Pioneer Days of Women's Running" on Friday, May 6th, at 1:30 pm in the park's Wesleyan Chapel. Featured panelists will be Katherine Switzer and Roger Robinson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit heroin dealer was sentenced today to four years and nine months in federal prison for a drug crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Robert James Bellamy, 32, previously pleaded guilty in December 2015 to distribution of heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Hearing Overview. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing today on public lands along the U.S.-Mexico border. Committee Republicans used the hearing as an opportunity to undermine the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) federal land management practices by claiming it...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Patchogue, NY - Fire Island National Seashore Superintendent Chris Soller and Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society (FILPS) President Bob LaRosa are inviting all fourth grade students to climb the Fire Island Lighthouse tower for free as part of the Every Kid in a Park program. Starting this Saturday, April 30, fourth graders can use the Every Kid in a Park pass to climb the tower with one caregiver free of charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: During his postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Chris Brown designed a lens system that has the potential to improve the performance of imaging and display systems. Now co-owner of a company specializing in optical instruments that measure distance, Brown is the first awardee in a grant program designed to help launch high-tech companies based on NIST technologies.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: The people of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Seneca Nation or SNI), an Iroquois Tribe, live and work on the same lands the Seneca people have inhabited for more than 1,000 years, which today consist of three distinct and noncontiguous territories in western New York.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved H.R. 4843, the Infant Plan of Safe Care Improvement Act. Introduced by Reps. Lou Barletta (R-PA) and Katherine Clark (D-MA), the bipartisan legislation will require the Department of Health and Human ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Tony Myers, 30, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for two counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Myers pleaded guilty, on Sept. 21, 2015, to receiving and possessing images of child pornography between...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Scott Tucker, a 19-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), has been selected as the Superintendent of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Sleeping Bear Dunes). Tucker currently serves as the Superintendent of Lewis and Clark National Historical Park (Lewis and Clark), which consists of seven units along the Columbia River and the Pacific Coast from Long Beach, Washington, to Cannon Beach, Oregon. He will begin his new assignment in mid-June 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the conviction of ROBERT SMUTEK on four counts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute 1,4 butanediol, an illegal analogue of the date rape drug gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB. SMUTEK was found guilty by a jury after a five-day trial before U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Hyannis man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with purchasing a firearm and silencer on a “Darknet Market" website, which provides anonymity to users to buy and sell illegal goods.
