News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Five alleged associates of the Genovese La Cosa Nostra (LCN) crime family were charged today with extortion by threat of physical violence, making extortionate extensions of credit and collection on an extension of credit by extortionate means.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-On Saturday, July 30th rangers conducting scheduled training located the remains of a female below Pima Point. Based on evidence found at the scene, the body is believed to be that of missing 22 year old Diana Zacarias of Natchitoches, LA.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Join Cape Cod National Seashore Mapping Specialist Mark Adams and Historian Bill Burke for a fast-moving visual journey through the seashore's changing landscape over the past century during a one-hour program on Tuesday, August 16 at 7 PM at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. Some places have stayed the same, while others have been dramatically transformed or are gone altogether. Sit back and enjoy the views or interact with Mark and Bill to shape the conversation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - DEA Special Agent in Charge, Clyde Shelley and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that five individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Dustin Giles, 31, of Caribou, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. for conspiring to distribute bath salts to 28 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. The defendant pled guilty to the charge on Jan. 12, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received a call at approximately 10 a.m. on Thursday, August 4, regarding a report of a missing person. The missing person, 16-year old female Fauna Jackson, a member of Groundwork USA, was working on a service project in Grand Teton National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former employee of a bank in Great Bend was indicted Wednesday on a charge of embezzling more than $73,600, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Performed duties as enforcer collecting drug debts in exchange for methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City man convicted of Production of Child Pornography was sentenced on July 29, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - David James Ioli, 69, of Bowie, Ariz., was sentenced today by U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Thomas Ferraro to five years of probation and ordered to pay over $8,000 to the Bureau of Land Management after previously pleading guilty to unlawfully removing ancient Native American artifacts from an archaeological site on public land.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LEROY SMITH, age 32, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of acetyl fentanyl and 100 grams or more of heroin. SMITH also pled guilty to possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug-trafficking activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Today United States Attorney for the Central District of California Eileen M. Decker issued the following statement regarding the ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the consolidated Los Angeles County Sheriff’s cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: North Carolina Man Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed charging Gonzalo Erick Aguilar Vargas, also known as “Erick Aguilar" and “Erick Vargas," Hillary Calle, Kiancin Lee, also known as “Mala," Monica Vargas, and Ricky Vargas with conspiring to traffic heroin, conspiring to kidnap, kidnapping, and possessing and...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent letters to the Indian Health Service (IHS) and to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting additional information on recent findings of grossly inadequate quality of care and services provided at IHS health facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Alleged Associates of La Cosa Nostra Charged with Extortion and Loansharking.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Front Range Resource Advisory Council will meet Aug. 19 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the SteamPlant Event Center, 220 West Sackett Ave., Salida, CO 81211. A field trip will take place the day before on Aug. 18; participants will meet at 9:30 am at the Collegiate Peaks Overlook, County Road 304, Buena Vista, CO 81211.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, Central California Area Office, will temporarily close the Capell Cove Launch Ramp at Lake Berryessa effective Monday, Aug. 8,
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that YAIR ROCHEZ-MARTINEZ, age 37, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for illegal entry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2016
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent letters to the Indian Health Service (IHS) and to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting additional information on recent findings of grossly inadequate quality of care and services provided at IHS health facilities.
