News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man who was previously indicted on charges related to child pornography was indicted by a federal grand jury today on an additional charge of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that EDWARD ROBERT SALDANA II, age 30, of Muldrow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 46 months for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) and POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE AND OXYCODONE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Three co-conspirators convicted at trial earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A New York resident has been sentenced in federal court to 6 years’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla, 23, of Starkville, Mississippi, was sentenced today to serve 96 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Philadelphia - A jury yesterday convicted Dr. Frederick Douglas Burton, 68 of Conshohocken of two counts of mail fraud and attempted mail fraud for lying to help a friend apply for social security disability benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Independence, Mo., high school teacher pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has returned two indictments against five men in connection with bank robberies near York and Lebanon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Shaun Vincent Kelley was sentenced to ten years in prison today for engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence follows a guilty plea entered May 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: New Orleans Fugitive Dwayne Anthony Winans, aka 'Butter,' Arrested by Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The former CEO of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School pleaded guilty to a charge of tax conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Cody Ray Blackman, 33, of Salem, Oregon, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to the theft of money from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Blackman was indicted by the federal grand jury in Pocatello on Sept. 22, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Guy E. "Butch" Evans, 61, of Jackson, has been charged with paying bribes and kickbacks to former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner (MDOC) Christopher B. Epps in exchange for exclusive access to sell insurance products to MDOC employees, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain, and FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Edward J. Kincade, 63, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Norbert E. Vint, Acting Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: It's the centennial year for the National Park Service and the agency invites people of all ages to discover the national parks in their community through volunteerism. Volunteers who contribute 201.6 hours of service between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2016 can earn a Centennial Volunteer Challenge Coin. Will you accept this volunteer challenge?
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: An Oregon man was charged with cyberstalking and other offenses for making numerous threats to his former co-workers and law enforcement officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that JAMES HAYES, also known as “T.Y.," 32, of Waterbury, was arrested on heroin distribution offenses earlier...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today applauded President Obama's designation of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, the first national monument...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: A former Virgin Islands senator was arrested on June 29, 2016, in Modena, Italy, and extradited today for allegedly defrauding the government of the Virgin Islands of tens of thousands of dollars while he served as a senator in the territorial legislature.
