News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Lindsey Johnson, 28, of Jackson, was sentenced on Aug. 2, 2016, by Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour, to serve a total of 221 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for armed carjacking, felon in possession of a firearm, and brandishing a firearm...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special 90-minute car caravan tour of Chickamauga Battlefield on Saturday, Aug. 13, at 2pm. This tour, exploring the experiences of some of the men taken prisoner in the Campaign for Chattanooga, meets inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TODD JOINER, also known as “Whitez," 28, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 39 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Vallejos, 23, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 34-year-old Drew Christopher Potter of Watuga, TX, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in an undocumented alien smuggling conspiracy announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Superintendent George Price wants to remind park visitors that drones, more technically known as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), are banned from launching, landing or operating from lands and waters administered by the National Park Service within the boundaries of Cape Cod National Seashore.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Join Tonto National Monument in celebrating the 100th birthday of the National Park Service at the Centennial Birthday Bash on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Need help? Then you need Leslie Reynolds. Whether the problem is big or small, this quintessential park ranger can handle the call, just as she has done for more than 20 years. Today, Reynolds was named the recipient of the National Park Service's most prestigious ranger award -the Harry Yount Award for Excellence in the Art of Rangering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Marangola, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force identified the defendant accessing child pornography online. Officers executed a search warrant at Wilbert’s residence and seized a laptop computer. A forensic examination of that computer recovered sexually explicit photographs of prepubescent children, some as young as toddlers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Woman Wanted by FBI for Alleged Involvement with New Mexico Prison Gang Arrested.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former maintenance technician for Roxse Homes, a subsidized housing development in Boston, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for his role in a scheme to rent apartments at the housing development to individuals who were not qualified, in exchange for cash bribes.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Sound is critical to the survival of marine mammals. It is a primary means of marine mammal communication, orientation and navigation, finding food, avoiding predators, and mate selection.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Aug. 2, 2016, Nathan Minervini, 37, of East Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced to 89 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he conspired to distribute heroin. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Minervini serve five years of supervised release after his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: DANVILLE, VIRGINIA - A Collinsville man, who previously pled guilty to federal drug and gun charges, was sentenced yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Danville, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Darius Raymond Stewart, age 22, of Baltimore, Maryland today to five years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for malicious destruction of property by fire, arising from the arson of a liquor store on ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - A Schenectady hazardous materials remediation contractor exposed its employees to mercury poisoning and did not provide proper safeguards to workers doing mercury removal work at the General Electric Co. Power and Water Main Plant State Superfund site at 1 River Road in Schenectady, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Shanakia Benton to three years in federal prison for wrongful disclosure of individual identifiable health information and wire fraud. As part of her sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $77,239, the proceeds of the wire fraud. Benton pleaded guilty on May 2, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service invites visitors of all ages to join in the celebration of its 100th birthday throughout the month of August.With special events across the country, and free admission to all 412 national parks from August 25 through Aug. 28, the NPS is encouraging everyone to #FindYourPark / #EncuentraTuParque for the centennial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: EL PASO - 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the following statements after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of 214 individuals...
