News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Quentin Cephus (30, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to forcibly assaulting and inflicting bodily injury on a federal employee, while that employee was carrying out his official duties. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Two Additional Individuals Indicted In A $50 Million Bond Fraud Involving Black Elk Energy, One Of Platinum’s Largest Portfolio Companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A California man claiming to have been a Navy SEAL was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to federal prison for defrauding non-profit organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jose Soto, 36, of Lamont, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Dear Attorneys General Melendez, Aldana and Chinchilla...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pennsylvania man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WV - United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today that he will resign his position on December 31 after having served the Northern District of West Virginia for more than six years.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, ID - The annual migration of bald eagles to Lake Coeur d’Alene is on! The eagles take advantage of the abundant kokanee spawn on Lake Coeur d’Alene en route from British Columbia to warmer winter locales. For nearly eight weeks, they grace the skies above the Lake, putting on a fabulous...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Edrey Santo Rojas (31, Fort Myers) to three years and nine months in federal prison for access device (credit card) fraud and aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Chad Stoner, age 28, and Emily Winand, age 27, both of Conewago Township, York County, Pennsylvania, were indicted on December 7, 2016, by a federal grand jury, for transmitting an interstate communication containing a threat to injure police officers and officials of Conewago Township. The indictment also charges that Stoner was a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Dec. 16, 2016, Wesley Thomas Ryan, 28, of Fayetteville, Tenn., and Rachael Gabrielle Boyett, 21, of Taft, Tenn., were sentenced by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, U.S. District Court Judge, for production of child pornography. Ryan was ordered to serve 360 months and Boyett...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) released the final Stream Protection Rule. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 13 members and their alternates to the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council to serve 3-year terms of office beginning Jan. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Victor Tello, age 25, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. William Cody McClung, 31, entered his guilty plea to illegally possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Bayfield, WI - A grant from the National Park Foundation helped the Bayfield School recently purchase a reverse osmosis machine to enhance student efforts to collect, process, and study maple sap. Apostle Islands National Lakeshore earned the first of several Park Stewards grants in 2011to launch the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Vincent Jones, 46, of Westville, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana collected $13,511,583.51 through civil, criminal and asset forfeiture actions in fiscal year 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 37-year-old McAllen man has been sentenced following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and being unlawfully present in the country, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Levi Galvan-Galvan pleaded guilty Sept. 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Michael Shane Thompson, age 45, of Lake Andes, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier on Dec. 15, 2016, and pled guilty to an Indictment that charged him with being a Felon in Possession of Firearms.
