News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced James Davis, age 57, formerly of Washington, D.C., today to 16 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit robbery, robbery of money belonging to the United States, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a robbery, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of New York. Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: How would you like to help Yellowstone celebrate the Centennial of the National Park Service while you work, learn, play, and serve in the world's first national park?
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Conspirators obtain identity information of 250,000 taxpayers and submit alleged false federal income tax returns seeking $25 million in refunds from IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced Tuesday to 248 months in prison as an Armed Career Offender for firearms and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH -- A resident of Monongahela, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years of probation on his conviction of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging three Elkins residents with fraudulently using counterfeit money to obtain authentic currency and other goods, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Mark Haynes, 56, of West Chester, PA, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for child sexual abuse and exploitation. Haynes, a former parochial Vicar at Saint Simon and Jude’s Church in West Chester, pleaded guilty on June 8, 2015 to using the Internet to entice a minor to engage...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant Involved in Shootout with Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. ordered Jerry Lee Edwards, 30, of Charlotte, to serve 130 months in prison and three years of supervised release on drug and firearm charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LACEY BLAND, 28, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to three years of probation, the first six months of which BLAND must spend in home confinement, for making false statements to receive federal funds. BLAND also was ordered to perform 50 hours of community service.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $197,500 civil penalty against R&R Conner Aviation (RCA) of Conner, Mont., for allegedly operating a Bell UH-1B helicopter when it was not in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: A former officer of the board of Country Bancorporation who embezzled more than $1,000,000 over nearly a decade was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2016, to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Mapleton, Utah has been sentenced in federal court to twelve months and one day imprisonment for interference with flight crew members and attendants, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Charges Include First-Degree Murder While Armed, Arson, Other Offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: NIST scientists have devised and improved a prototype instrument the size of a loaf of bread that can substantially increase the accuracy of length measurements in commerce. Perhaps surprisingly, it does so by achieving the most accurate measure of the refractive index of air reported to date.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 59 year old Orange, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to possess “crack" cocaine and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in partnership with the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, invites the public to participate in a free, one hour program at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 East Martin Luther King Boulevard, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403, on Saturday, February 27 at 2 pm.This program will explore Union Lieutenant Albion Tourgée's radical conversion on civil rights issues once the guns of war fell silent.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Man fled amidst federal investigation into his role in computer attack on a local hospital’s network.
