News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Allan Ebel, 63, of Boise pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Aug. 10, 2016, Charlene Mae Corona, 40, Crookston Minn., was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 9 years in federal prison for two counts of Bank Robbery. Judge Erickson also ordered that Corona pay $21,890.26 in restitution, serve 3 years supervised release, and pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be hosting a socioeconomic workshop, from noon to 5 p.m., Aug. 12, as part of the Sonoran Desert National Monument Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). It is focused solely on topics related to recreational target shooting on the Sonoran Desert National Monument only.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Walter Terry, 57, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced today to spend one year in federal prison for distributing 146 kilograms of marijuana, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Terry pleaded guilty to one count of distributing marijuana on January 6, 2016. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Frank “Cadillac" Salemme, a former boss of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra (NELCN), was arrested today and charged with murder of a witness.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after a circuit court struck down the FCC’s municipal broadband order.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced the former chief financial officer of an Alabama non-profit health clinic for the poor and homeless to 17 years in prison for a complicated scheme to defraud millions of dollars from two non-profit health clinics and the federal government health agencies that provided most of their funding, and for a separate scheme to defraud a life insurance company that involved identity theft against a physician.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man who was shot by police officers was sentenced in federal court for bank robbery and using a firearm in an attempted carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his role in a bogus lottery scheme in which the victims were told they had won millions of dollars in lotteries and must first pay the taxes in order for their winnings to be released to them.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -The National Park Service (NPS) is beginning an education campaign to remind drivers of the 10-ton load limit on Arlington Memorial Bridge. The 10-ton load limit was implemented in 2015 at the recommendation of the Federal Highway Administration to help prolong the service life of the iconic bridge. The education campaign will be followed by targeted enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: FORT WAYNE -United States Attorney David A. Capp announced five indictments and six criminal complaints against 18 individuals allegedly involved in a large-scale drug distribution network. This network involved the movement of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin in a geographic area encompassing Fort Wayne to Elkhart and South Bend, Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Brentwood resident was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges of production, receipt, and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: The Dock-U-Mentaries Film Series continues on Friday, August 19th at 7:00 PM in the Corson Maritime Learning Center, located at 33 William Street in downtown New Bedford with Of the Sea: Fishermen, Seafood & Sustainability a new documentary film by Mischa Hedges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: The Defendant Fraudulently Inflated Accounts Receivable To Draw From A Revolving Line Of Credit.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 37-year-old Aransas Pass man has been ordered to prison following his three convictions of sexual exploitation of a child, otherwise known as production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. John Anthony Perez pleaded guilty in May 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A citizen of Mexico, who has been removed from the United States multiple times in recent years, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke to Federal immigration charges, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A longtime U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been arrested on federal charges that allege that he stole mail from the International Mail Facility (IMF) in Torrance and arranged to have an accomplice deposit checks obtained from the stolen mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Branchburg, New Jersey, man who previously worked as a high school music teacher today admitted soliciting a boy to engage in sexually explicit conduct in exchange for money, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees handed down prison terms ranging from as much 235 to 51 months to 15 methamphetamine traffickers, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) today hailed the recently announced guidance from the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) to state environmental agencies urging strict reviews and new...
