News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Wendell White, 52, of Rumford, Maine (formerly of Bangor) pleaded guilty today U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Jeffrey Keagle, 48 of, Folcroft, PA was charged today by Indictment1 of distribution, receipt, and possession of a collection of more than 75,000 images and videos of children being sexually abused and in sexually explicit positions on various dates in 2015 and 2016 announced United States Attorney Zane...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Dade County, GA: On Monday, July 11, a wildland fire was reported on the western slope of Lookout Mountain within the boundaries of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, southwest of Covenant College.At various times since the report, personnel from the Georgia Forestry Commission, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Melinda Gwin, age 49, of Hamburg, Arkansas, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison followed by three (3) years supervised release on one count of Bank Fraud. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Georgetown, Texas - The Extreme Mustang Makeover, presented by the Mustang Heritage Foundation in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Program, will be held in Nampa for the third year, July 29-30, 2016. Those attending will have the opportunity to adopt trained, as well as untrained mustangs throughout the event.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: FBI Philadelphia Accepting Applications for Teen Academy.
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 former Western Union and MoneyGram agent in Canada has pleaded guilty to charges that he conspired to defraud hundreds of American residents out of more than $900,000 via mass marketing consumer fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Billie Cotten, 59, of Gallup, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque. N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing an unregistered sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced HAROLD DEVON SCARBORO, 25, of Middlesex, North Carolina to 18 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Wesley A. Roberts, 64, formerly of Northport, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 2 years in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for possession of child pornography. After release from prison, Roberts will also serve a term of 5 years on supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) 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 Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Western WY -Teton Interagency fire managers announce that the fire danger rating has increased to Very High for the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park and Teton Interagency Dispatch Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that as a part of the ongoing investigation into pay-to-play activities at the Pennsylvania Treasury, a grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted a Valley Forge business owner for making hundreds of thousands...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Richland - This week CH2M HILL Companies Ltd., and its subsidiaries CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc., and CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company, (“CH2M") completed the payment of $500,000 for accountability systems at the Hanford Nuclear Site as required by the Non-Prosecution Agreement (“NPA") that it entered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday afternoon following a one-day bench trial, a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found Alvin Brent Laney, 28, guilty of the misdemeanor offense of failing to stop his vehicle when directed to do so by a U.S. Forest Service officer. The U.S. Magistrate Judge acquitted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kenneth Apple, 65, of Beaverton, Oregon, was convicted today by a federal jury on charges related to his role in awarding $2 million in micro-dairy contracts from the U.S. government for use in Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Russian Agent Sentenced to 10 Years for Acting as Unregistered Russian Government Agent and Leading Scheme to Illegally Export Controlled Technology to Russian Military.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man appeared in court today on charges he tried to run down a federal officer with a 2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a public hearing to discuss the use of motorized vehicles in administration of wild horses in Colorado from 6-7 p.m. on Aug. 4 at the Grand Junction Field Office, 2815 H Road.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2016
News Release: Release Date:July 25, 2016. Contact: Brooke Nevitt, Park Ranger. Email address: e-mail us. Phone: 670-234-7207, Ext 2020. Youth Participate in Summer Program at American Memorial Park. On July 8-9 and 15-16, forty-nine students between the ages of 8-17 participated in the first ever "Soldier Skills" summer...
