News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man today admitted distributing large quantities of heroin in and around downtown Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted a Steelton man on criminal charges of fraudulently obtaining Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: The Ventura Port District is hosting a celebration of the National Park Service Centennial and Channel Islands National Park at an upcoming event at the Ventura Harbor Village main lawn, on Aug. 25, from 5:00 to 10:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Miguel Angel Vasquez Torres, 34, from Beckemeyer, Illinois, was sentenced on Aug. 2, 2016, in the U.S. District Court to 45 years in prison for Production of Child Pornography, Distribution of Child Pornography and Receipt of Child Pornography, United States Attorney Donald S. Boyce announced today. Vasquez Torres was also ordered to pay a $300 special assessment. When he is released from prison he will be on federal supervised release for an additional 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Feky R. Sumual pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a scheme to illegally buy guns and then smuggle them out of the country for the benefit of members of the protective security detail of the President and the Vice President...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LONDON CARTER, age 24, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, specifically a bank robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: SYLVANIA, Ohio - Splashing acid and other serious hazards are putting employees at a Sylvania metal coating company in danger of serious and debilitating injuries because their employer is failing again to provide appropriate protective clothing and other safety equipment, federal safety and health inspectors have found.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend the fourth local event in 2016 to celebrate the Centennial anniversary of the National Park Service. Teams from the Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball will play a special doubleheader in the Recreation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: AUG 03 - BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that, on Aug. 2, 2016, Nathan Minervini, 37, of East Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Today, federal, state and local authorities arrested seven individuals in the El Paso area based on federal drug trafficking and weapons charges. An eighth defendant was arrested back in June 2016. That announcement was made today by United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, and Socorro Police Chief Carlos Maldonado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Thomas P. Cortez, 58, of College Point, New York and Portland was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 10 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender. Cortez pleaded guilty on April 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tariq Brown, 23, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO Conspiracy in connection with the May 12, 2012 shooting at Martin Luther King Park that left Marquay Lee dead and four other individuals wounded before Senior U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALFRED FLINT, JR., age 59, of Abita Springs, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for possession with intent to distribute 27 kilograms of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 55-year-old Denton County, Texas, nurse, has been sentenced to federal prison for health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Charles Butler, 33, and Robert Paschalis, 25, both of Toledo, with a federal hate crime today for beating an African-American stranger they saw on the street.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Kedly G. Newlin, 57, of Lawrenceville, IL, Kelly W. Cessna, 46, of Bridgeport, IL, and Lorenzo Molina, 50, of Phoenix, AZ, were indicted on July 19, 2016, on methamphetamine related charges in a four count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: In preparation for the future workforce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that it will be accepting applications from entry-level candidates for air traffic controller positions from August 8-15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tariq Brown, 23, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO Conspiracy in connection with the May 12, 2012 shooting at Martin Luther King Park that left Marquay Lee dead and four other individuals wounded before Senior U.S. District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Former Cleveland Browns star Reggie Rucker was sentenced to nearly two years in prison today for stealing more than $110,000 in charitable donations to anti-violence groups he led and using the money to pay his gambling debts and personal expenses, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, who is employed as a police officer with the Metro Transit Police Department, was arrested today on charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Young will have his initial appearance here at 2 p.m. today in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa C. Buchanan.
