News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that United States District Court Judge Landya McCafferty sentenced Tiffany Ramos to serve 60 months in federal prison. Ramos, who resided in Manchester prior to arrest, previously pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances and possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Eric Fabian Cruz, 25, of Dallas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve a total of 188 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2016 to methamphetamine distribution and firearms charges, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Thomas Vance, 47, of Phoenix, Ariz., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced the Derivatives Oversight and Taxpayer Protection Act to strengthen federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: A 12-count indictment was unsealed today charging four current and former Police of Puerto Rico (POPR) Caguas Drug Unit officers with civil rights violations and obstruction of justice arising out of a police operation conducted in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on Aug. 15, 2015. The indictment alleges that during the police operation, the officers used excessive force against two arrestees and that they unlawfully seized, concealed and destroyed evidence of their misconduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Shaquan Robinson, a/k/a Quanny, age 26, of Baltimore, today to 12 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine, related to his drug dealing and violence in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley man was sentenced today to a year in federal prison for a drug crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. David Pfost, 31, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WHITEWATER CANYON, Calif -- Effective June 30, 2016, the Bureau of Land Management is temporarily closing public lands in and near Whitewater Canyon, Riverside County, CA, due to hazardous fire conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dustin Evans, 30, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced yesterday to a 62- month prison term for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An Adams man was charged in a superseding indictment today in connection with a plot to engage in terrorist activity inspired by and in the name of ISIL.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Potomac, Md. - The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comment on an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) to construct a proposed offshore submerged channel intake in the Potomac River for water supply at the Potomac Water Filtration Plant (WFP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Justin Frank Clark, 28, formerly of Stafford, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempting to coerce and entice a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose Cabreja, age 30, Scranton, was sentenced today to two years in prison by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton for conspiracy to make false claims against the government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Wareham business owner was sentenced yesterday in connection with a multi-year scheme in which she under-reported her income by more than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Victim Beaten, Robbed, Forced to Travel Across State Before Escaping from Captors.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, Virginia, June 30, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced five Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant awards to help provide treatment for the growing opioid epidemic in rural central Appalachia. Vilsack made the announcement as he hosted a town hall in Abingdon to...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: The annual street festival is hosted by our Friends of the Klondike Corridor, who also support Klondike - Skagway and the Klondike National Historic Sites of Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - A McCracken County, Kentucky, physician plead guilty today, in United States District Court, before Senior District Judge Thomas B. Russell, to fraudulent possession of a controlled substance, wire fraud and making false statements related to health care matters, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Mountainside, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for his role in an international procurement network that obtained and smuggled more than $65 million worth of electronics from the United States to Russia in violation of export control laws, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In 2015, Congress passed the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act to advance the effectiveness of civil monetary penalties and to maintain their deterrent effect. The new law directs agencies to adjust their penalties for inflation each year using a much more straightforward method than previously available, and requires agencies to publish "catch up" rules this summer to make up for lost time since the last adjustments.
