News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Walsh, the longest serving Colorado U.S. Attorney since the 1980s, also served as Chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: BOISE - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against Adams County deputy sheriffs Cody Roland and Brian Wood for the death of Jack Yantis on Nov. 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Brayan Jiménez, the president of the Guatemalan soccer federation (FENAFUTG) from 2009 to 2015, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in connection with his receipt of bribes in exchange for the awarding of contracts for the media...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Escape from Custody was sentenced on July 25, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to using counterfeit cashier’s checks to defraud victims, including charities and law firms, of at least $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Concord, New Hampshire - U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice announces the 32nd Annual National Night Out, which will be celebrated throughout New Hampshire on Tuesday night, Aug. 2, 2016. “We encourage citizens to join the men and women of the law enforcement agencies which protect our communities for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Wilson Angelo Graham, Jr., a/k/a “Noony" (34, Lakeland) pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, resulting in two deaths. He faces a minimum penalty of 20 years, up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted James Kendrick, his brother, Pablo "Paul" Plaza, and their mother Janine Plaza-Pierce of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute large quantities of illegal narcotics. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Dyer, age 32, of Rome, New York, was arraigned today on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled the annual public meeting for Ruedi Reservoir Water Operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Substantial Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Fresh off the heels of their Wednesday briefing on Capitol Hill, the folks behind Hope for Gabe kicked off Ride4Gabe 2016 today in Maine. As 11-year-old Duchenne patient and all-star rare disease advocate Gabe Griffin said this week, “We must pass #CuresNow!" Learn more about Gabe’s story here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Juneau, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that DANIEL HENRY, 61, of Skagway, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, to serve 12 months and one day in prison for his convictions on four counts of willful failure to file income tax returns, Judge Burgess also ordered HENRY to pay $600,064 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LAKUAN RHYNE was sentenced yesterday to 186 months in prison for conspiring to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin in and around Westchester County during 2014, and distributing the heroin and fentanyl...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Brayan Jiménez, the president of the Guatemalan soccer federation (FENAFUTG) from 2009 to 2015, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in connection with his receipt of bribes in exchange for the awarding of contracts for the media...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office announces summer 2016 park events and Park Ranger interpretive programs at Lake Berryessa in. Napa County, CA. All activities will be held rain or shine and are free of charge. Some programs have group-size limitations, so please...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Dallas FBI Warns of Scams Targeting Senior Citizens in North Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: In Midland, a former bookkeeper faces federal charges in connection with an alleged scheme to steal over $2 Million from a local businessman announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division; and, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will host a special presentation and book signing event on August 5, 2016 at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire, MI with Stacy L. Daniels, author of the book The Comedy of Crystal Lake. Mr. Daniels will present a short program in the visitor center auditorium beginning at 10:00 a.m., followed by a book signing that will last until 1:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announces that BELL CONTRACTING, INC. AND REDLANDS CONTRACTING, LLC paid $1,398,967.84 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that the companies negligently caused a fire that damaged the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Comanche County, Oklahoma ("Refuge").
