News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An independent film producer has been charged with interstate transportation of stolen property related to the theft of nearly $1.5 million that should have gone to his partner in a film production deal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Junnie Lavon Williams, age 29, of Charleston, South Carolina was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Felon in Possession of Firearm and Ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), facing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Defendants Guilty of Trafficking 105.6 Pounds of Cocaine and 11.55 Pounds of Heroin: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Tupelo, MS -The Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) partnered with local volunteers, Tupelo Public Schools Summer Environmental Camp participants, and Dr. JoVonn Hill from the Mississippi State Entomological Museum, to plant 6500 native wildflower and grass seedlings near the Black Belt Overlook interpretive area last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Charleston, South Carolina, returned an indictment today charging Aegean Shipping Management S.A. and Aegeansun Gamma Inc. with obstruction of an agency proceeding, conspiracy and failing to keep accurate pollution control records, the Justice Department announced. Three engineering officers were charged with related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced it will conduct a comprehensive after-action assessment of the Orlando Police Department’s (OPD) response to the mass shooting that took place on June 12 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Heroin Dealer Convicted by Jury of Sex Trafficking and Drug-Related Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ernest Xavier Taylor, Jr., 31, and Tracie Laverne Mixon, 34, both of Hammond, Louisiana, have pleaded guilty to charges relating to unlawfully using the identities of four people to fraudulently obtain federal student loans from Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) and other schools.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: MCLEAN, Va. - The National Park Service has completed its planning process to help restore Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve. Once implemented, this plan will improve ecosystem services that benefit the Potomac River watershed and the Chesapeake Bay. Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve is a large wetland area on the Potomac River south of Alexandria, Va. The marsh is one of the few remaining tidal freshwater marshes on the Potomac River.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Murder and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Visitors may hike and bicycle along the gravel emergency access route at the end of Chain of Craters Road to view and access lava as it flows down the Pūlama Pali and spreads out onto the coastal lava plain in the national park, and towards the ocean.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: FBI Charges Atlanta Man in Connection with Armored Car Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Five Arrested on Federal Charges Related to Two Large New Haven-Area Fencing Operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison in a massage parlor prostitution case, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Statement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Reopening of Korea Market to U.S. Poultry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Theodore Nelson, Jr., a/k/a Ted Nelson, age 69, of Letcher, South Dakota, was found guilty of Unlawful Taking of Bald Eagle and Unlawful Use of Pesticide as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ernest Xavier Taylor, Jr., 31, and Tracie Laverne Mixon, 34, both of Hammond, Louisiana, have pleaded guilty to charges relating to unlawfully using the identities of four people to fraudulently obtain federal student loans from Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) and other schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Keith Dunmore, age 47, of Washington, D.C., today to 162 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) begins a three-year rehabilitation project on Beach Drive after Labor Day, which will require segments of the road to be closed in both directions. Public information meetings will be held to answer questions, and provide details about the project, road closures and detours. We hope you can join us at our first public information meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Murder and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
