News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: On Feb. 10, 2016, Conrad Valdez, Jr., 45, of Selma, California, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging possession with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Ferdinand E. Krizan, 77, of Franklinville, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to trafficking in prohibited wildlife. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a wild horse and burro adoption on March 12, 2016 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Double 6 Ranch, 23722 Yucca Loma Rd., Apple Valley, Calif.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Career Criminal Offender Receives Enhanced Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Former Chief Operating Officer of Davis Bio-Pesticide Company Indicted for Securities Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Michael L. Sowinski, 62, of Parma, was charged with receiving, distributing, and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment was returned today charging Darron Dellon Dennis Wint with a total of 20 felony charges, including first-degree murder while armed, burglary, kidnapping, extortion, arson, and theft, in the slayings last May of Savvas Savopoulos, his wife, Amy Savopoulos, their son, Philip Savopoulos, and a household employee, Veralicia Figueroa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2016, by U.S. District Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Feb. 12, 2016, Richard Lee Doerr, III, 28, East Carondelet, IL, was arraigned on a five-count Indictment charging him, in Count 1, with Distribution of Child Pornography, in Counts 2-4, with...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: THURMONT, MD -Catoctin Mountain Park completed the seventh year of white-tailed deer population reduction as prescribed in the Catoctin White-tailed Deer Management Plan / Final Environmental Impact Statement. The plan addressed the consumption of tree and shrub seedlings by an increasing deer population, which has limited the ability of native forests to regenerate.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: The Headquarters Visitor Center, located at 7000 feet of elevation, will re-open on Wednesday, February 24. Hours are from 8am to 3:45pm daily. Backcountry permits will be available inside this building from 8am to 3pm daily.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Mark Bertanza, 34, of Shelton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man, Shaun Wesley Skinner, 27, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 151 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in May 2015 to one count of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - Lance Ealy, 29, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 24 months in prison for failure to appear consecutive to his underlying sentence of 124 months for access device fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and related charges.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Cape Cod National Seashore will exhibit photographs by artist Mark McGrath as part of its "Perspectives: Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore through Art" series. The photographs Mark has selected depict the beauty of the Cape, the diversity of the landscape, and the recreational adventures and activities that immerse visitors into the resources of the seashore.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a new round of financial support for developing undergraduate- and graduate-level curricula that integrate standards and standardization information and content into learning resources, courses and seminars at U.S. colleges and universities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Alexander Snow, 33, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to distribution of fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jarrud Michael Dixon, 26, of New Market, Maryland, pled guilty in federal court today to providing false information in order to purchase firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: “Health Care Fraud Has Consequences, in Money Wasted and Lives Lost"; Defendant Cheated Medicare and Medicaid of More Than $7.5 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging convicted sex offender Christopher Barker, 27, of Follansbee, West Virginia, with moving across state lines without updating his sex offender registration status, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
