News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia G.F. Peterman, III announced Mario Senior, age 37, of Columbus, Georgia was sentenced Dec. 12, 2016 to 235 months imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon by the Honorable Clay D. Land, United States District Court Judge, in Columbus, Georgia. Mr. Senior pled guilty on August 4, 2016 to Count One of the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WACO, Texas - This morning, federal, state and local authorities arrested 15 individuals, including ringleaders Corey Jefferson and Talmage Sedberry, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution ring operating in the Central Texas area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Keiawn Demarco McDonald, 24, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for sex trafficking a child. McDonald is the seventh and final member of this sex trafficking ring to be sentenced. The defendants were sentenced to a total of 92 years in prison (see chart below).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELBERT LLORENS, 24, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert A. Richardson in Hartford to a federal carjacking offense.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Recent rain showers and cooler weather have reduced fire activity and Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area officials have lifted the ban on open fires in the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Mansfield man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with posting online threats to the President of the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: A group of computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been working for more than 15 years on an impossible task: to maintain an up-to-date archive of the world’s software. Because the amount of software in circulation keeps growing, they will never enjoy the satisfaction of completing their assignment. But they have succeeded in creating the largest publicly known collection of its kind in the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting U.S. Attorney Beth Drake announced today that the District of South Carolina collected $65,905,918.40 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $7,112,893.48 was collected in criminal actions and $58,793,024.92 as collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Treveric Speaks, age 41, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a series of armed robberies of wireless stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS - A federal grand jury indicted Ikechi W. Emeaghara, 27, of Columbus, today in a superseding indictment charging him with seven additional armed bank robberies. He was indicted on one other count of armed bank robbery on November 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Don Grace, 54, of Etna, Maine, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 15 years in prison and eight years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin. He pled guilty on May 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: TACOMA, Wash. - An investigation begun by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the West Sound Narcotics Enforcement Team in February 2014 resulted today in the arrest of 19 people with ties to a methamphetamine distribution ring. Law enforcement served 24 search warrants on locations in Washington...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: (Billings, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management Billings Field Office is slated to burn several slash piles on BLM-managed land in Yellowstone, Mussleshell and Carbon counties and Big Horn County in Wyoming during the upcoming winter months.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that James Maxwell a/k/a “Sonny Spoon", age 43, of Macon, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty on Dec. 15, 2016 to counts one and two of a Superseding Information charging him with possession with intent to distribute marijuana before the Honorable Marc. T. Treadwell, U.S. District Court Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A jury has found a 43-year-old Beaumont, Texas man guilty of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced today by Drug Enforcement (DEA) Houston Division, Special Agent in Charge, Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- National Park Service (NPS) biologists confirmed this week that a mountain lion recently struck and killed by a vehicle on the 118 Freeway was P-39, an adult female with three six-month-old kittens.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia G.F. Peterman, III announced Mario Senior, age 37, of Columbus, Georgia was sentenced Dec. 12, 2016 to 235 months imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon by the Honorable Clay D. Land, United States District Court Judge, in Columbus, Georgia. Mr. Senior pled guilty on August 4, 2016 to Count One of the indictment.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: The transition from fall to winter provides opportunities to explore dimensions of the national seashore not seen at other times of the year. Three upcoming ranger programs will focus on seasonal changes, wildlife, and area history. Programs are free and open to the public, and reservations are not required.
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 Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: MOAB, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released the final decision approving a plan that will guide responsible mineral development in and around Moab while also protecting important natural resources, iconic scenery, and recreational opportunities. The Moab Master Leasing Plan/Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments (Approved Plan) is the culmination of extensive collaboration with the public and partners in southeastern Utah.
