News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Davian Wilson a/k/a "Chaba", 22, of Choctaw, Mississippi, was found guilty of second degree murder today following a four-day trial in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze. The murder occurred in the Pearl River community of the Choctaw Indian Reservation near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a funding opportunity for the Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase II grants, which provides funding to watershed groups for on-the-ground watershed management projects. The funding opportunity announcement is available at www.grants.gov by searching for funding opportunity BOR-DO-17-F013. Applications are due on Feb. 15, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. MST.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: DEC 15 - HARTFORD, 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 Hector Raul Cintron, also known as “G" and “Big G," 22, of Hartford, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him distributing heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today highlighted a new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing the significant gaps in verifying consumers accessing Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Threatened to Shoot an Employee, Fired Shots at Restaurant Manager, Set Fire to Restaurant and Led Police on a High Speed Chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Nigerian citizens have been ordered to prison for their role in a $2 million romance scam conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Kunle Mutiu Amoo, 49, and Lanre Sunday Adeoba, 62, both citizens of Nigeria, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud on July 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Khalid Fahide Carter, age 22, of Harrisburg, was convicted by a federal jury of distribution of crack cocaine, possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The three-day trial was held before Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis on Thursday heard broad public and political support for proposals to add historic locations related to the Reconstruction Era in South Carolina to the National Park System at a public meeting in Beaufort County. Director Jarvis attended the public meeting and visited the proposed sites at the invitation of U.S. Representative James E. Clyburn (D-SC).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BEND, Ore. - Three plead guilty to charges related to a firearms trafficking ring taken down by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Seattle Field Division. The investigation concluded guns were being bought in Central Oregon and sold to gangs in California in exchange for money and drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Ely, Nev.-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today accepted the donation of a 1,316-acre conservation easement on private lands located in southeastern Nevada’s BLM-managed Basin and Range National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Former Executive Director, Tahlequah Area Chamber Of Commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Defendants Captured on Video Stealing Mail from Apartment Complexes in Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today the former Executive Director of the Sequoyah Fund, Inc. to 27 months in prison for embezzling more than half a million dollars from the fund, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman-elect Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler announced his resignation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Adrian Austin, age 35, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2016, to possession of a stolen gun. The guilty plea occurred just before Austin’s cross-examination was scheduled to resume on the third day of his trial in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Randy Exavier Greene, 21, formerly of Stratford, Texas, and his co-conspirator, Brandi Nicole Blanco, 31, of Dalhart, Texas, were each sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve 60 months in federal prison, following their guilty pleas in August 2016 to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bart Dutch Marshall, 61, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 66 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking and firearms conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today that the Western District of Virginia collected $9,663,834 in criminal and civil actions in fiscal year 2016. Of this amount, $9,266,499 was collected in criminal actions and $397,334 was collected in civil actions.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We recently learned of reports that President-Elect Trump’s transition team has requested the names of individual employees who have worked on climate-change-related issues at the Department of Energy. We understand that the Department of Energy has rejected this request and will...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Kenneth W. Atkins, age 56, of Crossett, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 68 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire...
