News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Wilbert M. Sewell, 37, of Centreville, Illinois, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison on Aug. 2, 2016, in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois announced today. Sewell pled guilty on April 5, 2016, to four federal felony charges, including distribution of heroin, and possession with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today applauded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) release of a new rule prohibiting several unnecessarily cruel killing methods on 76 million acres of wildlife refuge land across the state of Alaska. The new rule is a major target of Republican lawmakers, who have already tried multiple times to prevent it from going into effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two Michigan men were indicted by a grand jury in Harrisburg on multiple charges arising out of a nation-wide investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two Michigan men were indicted by a grand jury in Harrisburg on multiple charges arising out of a nation-wide investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violations of federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Theodore Roosevelt National Park invites the public to the 32nd annual Badlands Star Party in the park's North Unit Friday and Saturday, August 5 and 6.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Park rangers at Lake Mead National Recreation Area held a tamarisk clean-up event July 22 in celebration of Latino Conservation Week.
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: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - John V. Brown, age 45, of New York City, was sentenced yesterday to serve 71 months in prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release, for supplying heroin in the Plattsburgh area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WALLACE STOGNER, age 61, of Bogalusa; DANIELLE MEISNER, age 31, of Mandeville; and KAREN SMITH, age 57, of Slidell, pled guilty today to charges relating to illegal distribution of oxycodone pills. Oxycodone is a prescription-only Schedule II controlled substance and a highly addictive and abused opioid drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Howard Hoffman, 53, formerly of Richmond, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to one year and one day in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for bank fraud. Hoffman pleaded guilty on April 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging a Wisconsin man for crimes related to his false claims that he was a Navy SEAL wounded four times in Vietnam, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Employer name: U.S. Postal Service, 104 S. Fillmore St., Osceola, Iowa
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: Charges Stem from Late 2015 Armed Carjacking Spree in North Texas and Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: Lee D. Switzer, 25, of Mansfield, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office is considering building a connector trail to provide a less technical route for users within the Ridge-to-Ridge trail system near Durango, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On July 26, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a six count indictment against Vincent Garner, 50, of Gruetli-Laager, Tenn., charging him with manufacturing and distributing marijuana, illegally possessing a firearm after being previously convicted of a felony and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking transaction.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - #Ride4Gabe 2016 crossed into the state of Ohio earlier today with a plan to pedal 204.9 miles today. But Monday and Tuesday’s combined 332 mile trek bringing #Ride4Gabe from New York into Pennsylvania left a lasting impression on Gabe and his team.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. Background: Prairie State Energy Campus includes a coal-fired generating plant and adjacent coal mine. The facility generates 1,600 megawatts of power, with 100 percent of the output dedicated to nine Midwestern-based public power utilities that provided energy to 2.5 million homes.
