News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Falsely stated he was not subject of a domestic violence restraining order.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Potomac, Md. - The National Park Service (NPS) has extended the deadline for the public comment period for an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) to Sept. 14, 2016. The WSSC is proposing to construct an offshore submerged channel intake in the Potomac...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Keystone, South Dakota - Beginning Sunday Aug. 14, 2016, the following changes will occur in the hours of operation, the Evening Lighting Ceremony at Mount Rushmore will transition to an earlier start time of 8:00 p.m. The final Evening Lighting Ceremony for the season will be October 1. The Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center, bookstore and museum as well as the Information Center's closing time will change to 9:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Offered to Pay $90,000 to U.S. Air Force Contracting Officer.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm on Aug. 27, 2016. The demonstrations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to around 1840.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Darius Vashon Tolbert (38, Tampa) guilty of receipt of stolen government property and possession of stolen mail. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Andrew Kimura, 31, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to three years and 10 months in prison and a $7,500 fine for participating in a bribery conspiracy that licensed unqualified drivers, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Salt Lake City, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct a Competitive Coal Lease Sale for a tract of Federal coal in Sanpete and Sevier Counties, Utah. The tract is located approximately 10.5 miles west of Emery, Utah, under lands managed by the Manti-La Sal and Fishlake National Forests. The Federal coal tract, known as the Greens Hollow Tract, is located in the Wasatch Plateau Known Recoverable Coal Resource Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Marci Jessie Ramirez, 45, of Fresno, was arrested today on a nine-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Thursday, charging her with bank fraud, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and fraudulent possession of access device-making equipment, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina --- Myron Anvil McCall is charged in a twenty-seven count Indictment with making and presenting claims for false tax refunds, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 287.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Visual Artist Dawn Lee comes to Rocky Mountain National Park from Sayville, New York. She has previously been an Artist-in-Residence at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Fire Island National Seashore. Her work has been exhibited and featured in museums throughout New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Thomalyn Virden pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to filing a false tax return with the Internal Revenue Service, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Michael T. Batdorf, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 38-year-old Corpus Christi man who worked as a Santa Claus impersonator for 15 years has been ordered to prison for distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Reynaldo Ramirez pleaded guilty in May 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - One of the principal defendants charged in a major drug distribution conspiracy that operated in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and elsewhere was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to a lengthy federal prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to felony offenses stemming from his role in that conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the convictions for all four defendants who stood trial in 2013 in the case of United States v. Peter Clay et al., commonly known as “The WellCare case.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Michael Smith, a/k/a Lil Mikey, age 23, of Baltimore, to 24 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activities as a member of the “Up the Hill," “Up da Hill" and “UDH" (UDH) organization, which operates in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who trafficked a 17-year-old girl from Nevada to Southern California and forced her to work as a prostitute has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis man who murdered a neighborhood associate has been sentenced to federal prison for felony firearm possession. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Williamsport indicted Christopher Goins, age 40, Ashley Dixon, age 28, Troi Venable, age 36, and Perlie Johnson, age 31, yesterday, for assault with a deadly weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2016
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore - Jeffrey Scott Bettman, 57, of Medford, Oregon, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken to 25 years in prison, based on his January 2016 guilty pleas to eleven counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, and one count of distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography.
