News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Belvidere man was found guilty today of firearm charges following a four-day jury trial in federal court in Rockford. MICHAEL TAPIA, 25, of Belvidere, Ill., was found guilty of one count of conspiring to receive, possess, conceal, store, sell, and dispose of stolen firearms or ammunition; ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: UPDATED SEPTEMBER 15. On September 17 and 18, the National Park Service will sponsor a World War II living history weekend at the Eisenhower National Historic Site. See authentic recreations of Allied and German army camps, complete with original World War II vehicles. Several hundred living history enthusiasts...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Aug. 24, a grand jury in Harrisburg indicted two men on charges of possessing and conspiring to possess and distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a U.S. Postal Service employee for stealing gift cards from the mail, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Special Agent in Charge Maximo Eamiguel, Southern Area Field Office, United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Believed Responsible for Robberies in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida approved a consent decree that resolves alleged violations of the Clean Water Act by The Bear’s Club Founding Partners Ltd., several of its officers and related entities. The complaint was brought in 2015 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), Jacksonville District.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Anton Demetrius Matthews, 32, of Cleveland, Ohio, pled guilty to crack cocaine distribution in federal court today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: American alligators and South African crocodiles populate waterways a third of the globe apart, and yet both have detectable levels of long-lived industrial and household compounds for nonstick coatings in their blood, according to two studies from researchers at the Hollings Marine Laboratory (HML) in Charleston, South Carolina, and its affiliated institutions, which include the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement commemorating the Centennial of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two of the 19 defendants charged in the Nevada criminal case involving the armed standoff over Cliven Bundy’s trespassing cattle, pleaded guilty today to felony charges before Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jose Alvarado, 29, of Irondequoit, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography was sentenced to 72 months in prison and 15 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michael Ray Robertson, 64, of Redding, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 11 years and three months in prison for distribution of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: FBI New Orleans SWAT Team Arrests a Ranking Member of the Louisiana Tactical Militia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: FORT WAYNE -United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that a federal grand jury in Fort Wayne returned a 15 count indictment against Marianne Matchette, 50, of Roanoke, Indiana for access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, wire fraud and mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: A nine-count federal indictment was filed charging an Elyria man with selling heroin and fentanyl, including a dose of fentanyl that caused the fatal overdose of a Lorain County man, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: A Barberton man was indicted for immigration fraud for failing to disclose his participation in the Srebenica massacre, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio and Marlon Miller, Special Agent in Charge of HSI’s Detroit office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JACQUELINE RAY, 60, of Biloxi, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with stealing over $1 million from Ochsner Clinic Federal Credit Union in connection with bank larceny during her employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced James Cicala, age 55, of Columbia, Maryland today to seven years in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for interstate travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor. Judge Hollander also ordered that upon...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A couple has been collectively sentenced to more than 390 months in federal prison for robbing multiple businesses throughout Memphis. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
