News from July 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: The 1.5 mile Hurricane Hill Road will be closed to all entry on Thursday, July 28 to allow contractors to repair and resurface the pavement. The Hurricane Hill and Wolf Creek trailheads will be closed for the day, as will two roadside picnic areas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Mammoth Hot Springs, WY - Dakota D. Tipton, 26, of Joshua, Texas, was sentenced Tuesday, July 26, 2016, for carving his initials into the iconic Roosevelt Arch. U.S Magistrate Judge Mark Carman ordered Tipton to serve three days in jail, pay a $250 restitution fee for repairs, and $40 in court fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Latosha Strong to 15 months in federal prison for filing false federal income tax returns in the names of deceased individuals. The Court also ordered her to pay $52,735.71 in restitution to the U.S. Treasury, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense. Strong pleaded guilty on Dec. 11, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: This morning park rangers and wildlife staff euthanized the bear which had been rewarded with human food and whose behavior and actions prompted the recent closures in the Savage River area of Denali National Park and Preserve.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today sent a letter to Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S Permanent Representative to the United Nations, urging her to request an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to address the dire humanitarian and human rights situation facing Burma’s Rohingya, who continue to be among the world’s most persecuted people.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924 or Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Pilchak (619) 546-9709.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of Stolen Firearm and Possession of Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Adam Bernaix, Edwardsville, Illinois, admitted to a fraud and money laundering scheme involving false invoices submitted to his employer on behalf of a shell company he created.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Defendants Arrested for their Roles in Trafficking Firearms From Georgia to New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Nine individuals were charged in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with distributing heroin, cocaine, acetylfentanyl and fentanyl in the Bristol County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Adam Libbey-Tipton, 29, of Cleveland, with one count of accessing with intent to view visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct; and one count of possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: MOSES LAKE, Wash - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Ephrata Field Office will hold its annual C.A.S.T. for Kids fishing event Saturday, Aug. 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will be held at Potholes Reservoir located 15 miles south of Moses Lake.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924 or Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Pilchak (619) 546-9709.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Eagan man claimed over $200,000 in false tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two West Haven residents have been charged with operating an extensive identity theft and mail theft scheme that operated in the greater New Haven area. On July 21, JAMILA WILLIAMS-STEVENSON, 36, was arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALBERTO GONZALEZ-MORALES, age 40, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to possession of a handgun by a person illegally present in the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(5)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to more than five years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough has rendered verdicts of guilty on all counts against a Chicago man for fraudulent overbilling of an estimated $4.7 million to Illinois’ Medicaid program for non-emergency medical transport. Sentencing for Gregory D. Toran, 67, of Hazel Crest, Ill., is scheduled on Nov. 14, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Brad Rushford, age 33, of Ellenburg Depot, New York, pled guilty today to being a member of a drug distribution conspiracy that involved more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Woburn investment advisor was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with defrauding investors of over $1.3 million.
