News from August 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a federal firearm violation charge, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Robert Paper, 32, of Ranson, West Virginia, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a teenage girl, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Darius Gilbert was sentenced today to over 30 years in prison, and ordered to pay over $148,000 in restitution for a series of nine bank robberies, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: AUG 30 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Ryan Welch, 22, of Salem, Mass., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: After a three-year hiatus in dry storage, the National Park Service's Graffiti Removal and Intervention Team houseboat is being repaired, and volunteer trips are expected to resume the first week of November.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Settles Housing Discrimination Lawsuit Involving Seven Michigan Apartment Complexes.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - To ensure the safety of visitors and employees, sections of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park will close starting at 5 p.m. today as hurricanes Madeline and Lester approach Hawai'i Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A Mexican national and lawful permanent resident from Mission has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Felipe Rivera-Paredes, 55, pleaded guilty March 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a man from Mexico was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for reentering the United States illegally.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ruben Uy Lim, age 53, of Parkville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography. Lim also admitted taking hundreds of videos of underage girls at swim meets, using a filter that allowed the camera to see through certain fabrics, including bathing suits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland attorney was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for accepting $20,000 in purported drug proceeds and agreeing to launder the money, said Carole Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elizabeth Gallardo, 37, a U.S. citizen living in Mexico and Yuriria Anahid Ramirez-Moreno, 33, of a legal Mexican alien, pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gregory L. Clark, age 26, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elias David Parra, 29, of Deming, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elias David Parra, 29, of Deming, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Matthew Handy, 24, of Trainer, PA, was charged today by indictment with stalking another person via the Internet, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Handy is charged with cyberstalking, two counts of interstate use of telecommunications device to willfully convey a threat, and two counts of false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John T. Hines, 50, of Swanville, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to unlawfully possessing four firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: The Battle Mountain District BLM has begun a partnership with the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) to protect, enhance, and restore wildlife habitat around Eagle Butte in Central Nevada. Approval for this large scale enhancement project was issued in July, 2011 by the BLM. The Eagle Butte portion...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Defendant Met the Child Through Instagram.