News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Failed to disclose the death of her husband for eleven years.
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the murder of LGBT editor and human rights activist Xulhaz Mannan in Bangladesh...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of April 25.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: The WMO will replace Erika with “Elsa", Joaquin with “Julian" and Patricia with “Pamela" when the 2015 lists are reused in 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will transfer $115 million to the U.S. Treasury from revenue generated from the sale and auction of crude helium from the Federal Helium Reserve, a resource owned by the American people and managed by the BLM’s Amarillo, Texas, Field Office. The BLM's Federal Helium Program has returned over $1.642 billion dollars to the U.S. Treasury from the sale and auction of crude helium from Fiscal Year 2005 through Fiscal Year 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The treasurer of south suburban Sauk Village was arrested today for allegedly looting the village’s Police Pension Fund out of more than $21,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Designates April 24-30 as National Reentry Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon from southwest suburban Hickory Hills was sentenced today to more than six years in federal prison for illegally possessing several firearms with obliterated serial numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Oglala, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Assault of Intimate Partner by Strangulation and Suffocation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that six southern Missouri residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: DENVER - John Bowman, age 45, of Arvada, Colorado, was arrested on April 22, 2016 on charges related to the use of a pipe bomb to destroy a mail box, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Arvada Police Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Rolando Torres De La Cruz, 25, was arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in an indictment with alien in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. De La Cruz was arrested on April 22, 2016, by Special Agents of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lake Charles resident formerly from Texas pleaded guilty last week to failing to update his sex offender registration.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland dentist was charged with one count of health care fraud after billing Medicaid for more than $407,000 in work that not authorized or never done, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2015 shows the economic benefit of Channel Islands National Park and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to our local economy in supporting 761 jobs with a cumulative benefit to the local economy of nearly 74 million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Justin Ashline, 25, of Ellington, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 61 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing a firearm and selling it to his heroin dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Stephen Williams, 47, made his initial appearance today before U.S.Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being arrested for threatening a federal employee, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Williams was arrested on April 25, 2016, by Special Agents from the U.S. Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on April 22, 2016, José Luis Delacruz, 38, a/k/a Joe Delacruz, from Grand Forks, North Dakota, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve a life sentence in prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of Methamphetamine, as well as a consecutive seven-year sentence for Brandishing a Firearm During the Commission of Drug Trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: OMAHA, NEBRASKA -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3,282,634 visitors to national parks in Arkansas spent $174,168,400 in the state in 2015. That spending resulted in 2,788 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of $214,853,200.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Francisco Sandoval, 60, of Placentia, California, was sentenced on April 22, 2016, to 188 months in prison for his leadership role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief United States District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Sandoval to serve five years of supervised release following his release from prison, and to forfeit $100,000 in drug proceeds. Sandoval pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2015.
