News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: The Energy Department today announced up to $40 million in available funding, subject to congressional appropriations, to support the site selection, design, permitting, and construction of a national open-water, wave energy testing facility within U.S. federal or state waters. The Department anticipates...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Andrew Thompson, 34, of Westfield, NY, who was convicted of violation of the Clean Water Act, was sentenced to six months probation and a $10,000 fine by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Troy A. Paul, 48, of Nampa pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to access with intent to view child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted seven people on August 9, 2016, for participating in a conspiracy to sell the substance alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (a-pvp), commonly referred to as “bath salts." The indictment was unsealed today following the arrests of defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Henry Alberto Fernandez Gomez (30, Cape Coral) to three years in federal prison for access device (credit card) fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered him to repay $8,070.45 in restitution to his victims and an additional $8,070.45 to the United States in the form of a forfeiture money judgment representing the proceeds he obtained as a result of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man pleaded guilty today to federal gun charges, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Austin Russell Ash, 21, of Belpre, entered his guilty plea today to one count of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Michael Wayne Wade, 30, of Boise pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to sex trafficking of children, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Rockaway, New Jersey, residents who owned a mobile diagnostic testing company were each sentenced today to over six years in prison for receiving more than $4.8 million from Medicare and private insurance companies for diagnostic testing and reports that were never interpreted by a licensed physician, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: SIOUX CITY, IOWA - The United States Attorneys’ Offices for the Northern District of Iowa and the Districts of Nebraska and Kansas convened the 2016 Indian Country Conference in Sioux City. Over 100 victim service professionals and law enforcement officers attended the conference, entitled “Crimes Against Children." Participants attending the conference were updated on threats facing children in Indian Country and the need for a community based response.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Hanes to be Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Christopher Bowers Previously Admitted to Robbing Drug Dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Forrest Dakota Hill, 23, of Easley, South Carolina, was sentenced to federal prison today for 200 months for the 2015 murder of a male victim on federal land, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also ordered Hill to serve five years of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: The Drugs Made Their Way from Asia to Sub-Distributors in Harrisonburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - The first three of six men convicted for their varying roles in an international sex trafficking of minors conspiracy have been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Ronald McMillian, of Washington, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of trafficking in heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Jon Christopher Stoune (45, St. Johns County) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for the attempted online enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, advertising for child pornography, and attempted...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Jonathan Bowerbank, Tazewell Co. Business Owner, Conspired to Defraud Social Security Administration and Impede the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Special Events Across the U.S. Will Celebrate the National Park Service 100th Anniversary in August.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 is National Park Service Founders Day and the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service! Superintendent David Hallac invites the public to experience their national park sites on the Outer Banks; Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National...
