News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANTHONY GRECCO was sentenced today to life in prison for robbing and murdering Ryan Ennis, a resident of Ossining, New York, and conspiring to distribute marijuana and heroin. In January 2016, following a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Indictment Alleges He Misappropriated More Than $24 Million in Funds From More Than 5,000 Customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today STEVEN C. DAVIDSON, 36, of Pikeville, North Carolina, was sentenced to 180 months imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release by United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan, for one count of receipt of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management today published a Notice of Availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement for the West of Devers Upgrade Project in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of DANA LEE COBENAIS, 24, an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, for aggravated sexual abuse. Following a three-day trial before Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle, a jury on Nov. 19, 2015 found COBENAIS guilty. COBENAIS was sentenced today before Judge Kyle in Duluth, Minn. to 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced RANDY LYNCH, 50, of Hollister, North Carolina, to 96 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. LYNCH previously pled guilty to this charge on November 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: An Ontario man was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison after having pleaded guilty to charges related to the sexual exploitation of two minor girls, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD-- Cake, ice cream, and a visitor from the past highlight Wind Cave National Park’s Centennial celebration on Thursday, August 25. The National Park Service is 100 years old on August 25. To mark the occasion, cake and ice cream will be served at 2 p.m. in the visitor center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS CEDILLO, 33, last residing in Los Angeles, Calif., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former teacher at St. Elizabeth High School in St. Elizabeth, Mo., was sentenced in federal court distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jose Lopez Torres, 26, of Falls Church, and Jesus Alejandro Chavez, 25, of Alexandria, were both sentenced today to life in prison for their roles in two murders and one attempted murder in Northern Virginia, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Indictments Include Firearms Charges, Failure To Register As Sex Offender, And Theft Of Government Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio today, the Federal Grand Jury returned a superseding indictment adding new charges against two former Crystal City, TX, officials announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Kansas City, Kan., men were sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison for taking part in a plot to commit an armed robbery at a drug house, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Edward Werner, 51, of Middleburgh, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve one hundred and twenty-one (121) months in federal prison in connection with his conviction for receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Nancy Wicker (803) 929-3000.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: EMMETT, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation's Snake River Area Office will hold its annual C.A.S.T. for Kids fishing event Saturday, Aug. 20 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be held at Black Canyon Park located on East Black Canyon Highway northeast of Emmett.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: He Received Over 200 Images of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Keiawn Demarco McDonald, 23, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to charges of sex trafficking of a child. McDonald is the seventh and final member of this sex trafficking ring to be convicted (see chart below).
