News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed and provided a new biological opinion to the Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and the State of New Mexico, providing Endangered Species Act coverage for water-related activities in the Upper and Middle Rio Grande.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: AMED VILLA, 51, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in the theft of pharmaceuticals from an Eli Lilly Company warehouse and storage facility in Enfield, Conn., and similar warehouse burglaries in Illinois, Virginia, Florida and Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in a string of commercial burglaries in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Michael Hopson, 39, of Newport News, was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of racketeering conspiracy, including acts of murder, attempted murder, robbery, obstruction of justice, murder in aid of racketeering, conspiracy and attempted murder in aid of racketeering, and other charges.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: The Three Hundred and Fifth meeting of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission will take place on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, at 1:00 P.M., in the meeting room at Headquarters, 99 Marconi Station Road, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts to discuss the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that the developers of six multi-family housing complexes in southern Mississippi have agreed to pay $350,000 to settle claims that they violated the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act by building apartment complexes that were...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today appointed four members and five alternate members to serve on the National Honey Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2017, and ending Dec. 31, 2019, except the additional alternate producer member, who will serve the remainder of a term expiring Dec. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and the Swanton Sector, United States Border Patrol announce that Daniel Larmand, 52, a Montreal resident, appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington on a charge of alien smuggling. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Larmand on conditions pending the next court hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Defendant embezzled the funds over roughly 10 years and spent the money on island vacations and cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Ernest L. Chambliss (45, Englewood) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 17, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Dec. 2, 2016, Mandy Lea Whipple, formerly Mandy Lea Johnson, a 34 year-old resident of Page County, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose, to 18 months in prison followed by five years of Supervised Release for Mortgage Fraud, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Upper Snake Field Office wants to improve the public’s experience at the St. Anthony Sand Dunes campground by increasing shade and installing more shelters. The BLM is submitting a grant request to the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation for financial assistance and needs your input on this project application.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 35-year-old Houston resident has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a sophisticated tax fraud/identity theft scheme involving more than 800 victims, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Antolin Julio Nazario, 35, pleaded guilty April 27, 2015, to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. His wife - Thalia Diaz Camareno, 30 - was also convicted in the case, pleading guilty Oct. 5, 2015, to conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, 50, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport, to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Luray, VA - Shenandoah National Park officials are lifting a parkwide fire ban that was put in effect last month. Extremely dry conditions prompted the ban for the southern areas of the Park on November 16. The ban was extended parkwide on November 21.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office has issued a decision authorizing the expansion of a bentonite mining project in Hot Springs County, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Dunbar man was sentenced today to a year and a half in federal prison for a heroin crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Christian Bowles, 25, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tariq Brown, 23, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO Conspiracy in connection with the May 12, 2012 shooting at Martin Luther King Park that left Marquay Lee dead and four other individuals wounded, was sentenced to 22...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Phillip Larry Gonzales, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a heroin trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Gonzales will be sentenced within the range of 36 to 48 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
