News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury this afternoon convicted a Sacramento man of producing child pornography in a case in which his co-defendant previously pleaded guilty to the sex trafficking of the 16-year-old victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A multi-convicted felon, Tracy Norman Hanson, 51, of Kaufman County, who was arrested after his involvement in a shootout with law enforcement officers in Van Zandt County, Texas, in January 2015, and who pleaded guilty in August 2015 to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Primecraft Doors Inc. Location: Malvern, Arkansas. Citations issued: Feb. 16, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began an inspection on Dec. 2, 2015, after a complaint about several unsafe working conditions at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Feb. 17, 2016, Gary Wayne Thomas, 59, of Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on two counts of Bank Robbery, to which Thomas pleaded guilty to on Nov. 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Raleigh, North Carolina, man pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of public money and one count of theft of public money, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney John Stuart Bruce for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Each month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) receives more than 100 reports from pilots and others who spot what appears to be an unmanned aircraft (UAS) flying close to an airport or a manned airplane. It’s become a serious safety concern for the agency, and a potential security issue for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service (FS) announces a second 30-day public comment period for an environmental assessment (EA) related to two hardrock prospecting permit applications from Ascot USA, Inc. (Ascot) for geotechnical exploration within the Gifford...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a federal indictment charging EITAN BENJAMIN FELDMAN, 28, for illegally dealing in firearms without a license and lying on at least nine firearms transaction records (Form 4473). The defendant is expected to appear later today before Magistrate Judge Mayeron in United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHARLES J. MOORE, former Chief Executive Officer of broker-dealer Crucible Capital, Inc. (“Crucible"), was sentenced today to six months in prison for obstructing a regulatory examination conducted by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: More Than 150,000 Press Releases Stolen from Three Major Newswire Companies, Used to Generate Approximately $30 Million in Illegal Trading Profits.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Richard Z. Johnson Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months and one day in prison for filing a false federal income tax return.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday evening, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issuedsubpoenasto the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for documents related to the USACE’s peer review of DOI’s Technical Evaluation of the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2016, and continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and After Dark in the Park (ADIP) programs with the public in March.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Pittsburg, Kan., man was sentenced Thursday to 96 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Nicholas Ethier, 36, of Concord, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in violation of federal law, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. The Court imposed a term of 37 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Denali National Park and Preserve and the Denali Borough invite everyone to Winterfest 2016, an annual celebration of Alaska’s longest season, Wednesday, Feb. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - An area police detective was arrested without incident this morning on charges that he allegedly possessed with the intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MEHDI MOAREFIAN, a.k.a. “Michael Miller," 36, and DANIEL SHIAU, a.k.a. “Scott Decker," 30, both of Irvine, Calif., pleaded guilty yesterday in Bridgeport federal court to conspiring to defraud homeowners across the United States who were seeking mortgage loan modifications.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced today Tashimo Scatliffe, 33, to 120 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez also ordered Scatliffe to pay a $100 special assessment and perform 400 hours of community service.
