News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Weymouth man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with possessing several assault-style weapons and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Preston Alexander McWaters, 25 of Athens, Georgia, pled guilty today before United States District Judge James I. Cohn, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to four counts of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce to injure another person, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jarred Thomas, 19, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a prison term of 121 months on charges stemming from a broad daylight armed robbery last year at a barber shop in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Arthur Charles Clements, age 57, of Temple Hills, Maryland, today to 14 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for receipt of child pornography. Judge Hazel also ordered that upon his release from prison Clements...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Pedro Vigio-Aponte, a/k/a “Pedrito/Pedrito He-Man/Pello/Pedrito Trauma" was sentenced to be in prison for the remainder of his natural life by the Honorable Judge Francisco A. Besosa for his participation in drug trafficking and violent acts, including a drive-by shooting murder...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted Miguel Antonio Rivera-Lopez for illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Springfield, Mo., man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced in federal court for defacing The Islamic Center of Springfield with graffiti.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: In the past three days, park rangers and fire crews at Rocky Mountain National Park have responded to three separate fire incidents. This morning, two people had an illegal campfire along Old Fall River Road. Late yesterday afternoon, a park visitor reported two people starting a fire near Dream Lake. Park visitors were issued violation notices for these illegal campfires.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Sherman C. Bolling was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison based upon his plea of guilty to charges arising from his role in a counterfeit traveler’s check scheme. Bolling previously had pleaded guilty to one count of Possessing Counterfeit Traveler’s Checks. Bolling, 68 years old, lived in Hempstead, New York, before he was taken into custody on related charges in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today the sentencing of an Indianapolis man for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Adrian Bullock, 26, was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Eric V. Bartoli, who was indicted in 2003 and was a fugitive for more than a decade, pleaded guilty to defrauding hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars in the 1990s, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing Bank of America and kidnapping the bank manager by forcing him to leave the bank with him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the Nigerian owner of a day care center in Kansas City, Mo., was arrested today as part of a nationwide sweep that targeted childcare center fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 12, 2016, Cory M. Yant (age: 35) of Appleton, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, met with officials from the government of El Salvador, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugo Martinez, Minister of Justice and Security Mauricio Ramirez Landaverde,...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Firefighters conducted an aerial reconnaissance flight this afternoon and estimate the Fuller Fire is approximately 1,324 acres. Approximately 66 personnel are currently assigned including one hotshot crew, one hand crew, and three engines. The lightning-caused fire is located on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, north of Fuller Canyon Road, about three miles west/southwest of Point Imperial. The North Rim Developed Area remains open.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, members of Oregon’s Congressional Delegation introduced the bipartisan Community Protection and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5786), legislation that creates a new trust fund to help communities prepare for accidents involving rail cars transporting flammable liquids, including crude...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Ryan Arcara, 27, of West Seneca, N.Y., who was convicted of possessing child pornography, was sentenced to two years in prison and ten years supervised release by U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Defendant Committed Offenses While on Probation From Earlier Attempted Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A South Carolina attorney pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to bank fraud as part of a scheme that involved submitting false invoices for furnishings and equipment for a University of Alabama sorority house and receiving payment without providing the items, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Craig Caldwell, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez.
