News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today the return of an indictment charging Richard Lilliston (69, Brooksville) with conspiracy to defraud two Social Security Administration (“SSA") programs, and to make false statements to the SSA programs. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, WV -Friends of New River Gorge National River is currently seeking a new AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA). This is the third and final year of a VISTA project to develop the Camp Brookside Environmental Education Center. In the initial two years of the VISTA project, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Andre Antoine Walker, age 23, of Temple Hills, Maryland, today to 162 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank robbery conspiracy, bank robbery, armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm in relation to a bank robbery. Judge Bennett also ordered Walker to pay restitution of $10,593.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two men will appear in federal court today to face charges that they attempted to rob a Paterson, New Jersey, residence while dressed in Passaic County Sheriff uniforms and wielding a firearm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who robbed two tourists in the parking lot of their hotel at gunpoint and stole their vehicle, was sentenced this morning to 147 months in prison and three years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who robbed a convenience store, two liquor stores, a payday loan company, and an electronics retailer in the Las Vegas area during the summer of 2014, was sentenced today to 1,354 months or over 112 years in prison and five years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATALI MARTINEZ, 30, formerly of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATALI MARTINEZ, 30, formerly of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE GONZALEZ, also known as “Jo Jo," 39, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Taylor King Pepe, age 21, of Laurel, Maryland today to 35 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for an armed robbery conspiracy, and for aiding and abetting the brandishing and use of a gun during ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 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 Natali Martinez, 30, formerly of West Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - John Wesley Herder, 50, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for delivering contraband to inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (CFCF), in Philadelphia, where he worked at the time. On Oct. 16, 2013, Herder smuggled past prison security at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Stephen Cebula, 28, of Sacramento, charging him with making threats to injure employees of the video-game company Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding recent comments by the Republican presidential nominee about the United States commitment to NATO...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: CAREY, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation has closed the well that supplies drinking water to the Little Wood Campground due to health concerns. The campground is located on Little Wood Reservoir Road, 11 miles northwest of Carey, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darrick Negale, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 16 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Negale will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and U.S. Marshal Conrad E. Candelaria.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) today sent a letter to European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, urging them to cooperate more closely on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: A member of the same gang as Jamal Dean, who made false statements while testifying as a witness at Dean’s sentencing, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 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 the former Treasurer of Pennsylvania for concealing from federal investigators the receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - In response to public requests, the Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office is extending the comment period for Uncompahgre Field Office Draft Resource Management Plan for 60 days.
