News from June 2016

By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to President Barack Obama yesterday, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged the president to make a decision about the continued presence of U.S. security assistance forces in Afghanistan before the upcoming NATO Summit in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 15 individuals charged in connection with a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central Texas and Oklahoma.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Cape Lookout National Seashore's 50th Anniversary and National Park Service Centennial celebration scheduled to be held tomorrow (Saturday, June 18, 2016) will be modified slightly due to the Gale Warning issued by the National Weather Service.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Francis J. Moloney, 43, of Marlborough, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Denise J. Casper to 12 months probation, with the first three months of that period in home confinement, as well as 80 hours of community service. In February, 2016, Moloney pleaded guilty to misuse of a social security number.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Nine west Texas residents, including four alleged members of the Texas Syndicate, remain in federal custody following their arrests earlier this week on federal charges stemming from their roles in a methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- A Tulsa man pleaded guilty today to sexual exploitation of a child and extortion, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that TED HAKEY, JR., 48, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firing shots into the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden in November.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Howard County gymnastics coach Paul Daniel Bollinger, age 56, of Windsor Mill, Maryland was charged by federal complaint today with possessing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant Scammed OPM. WASHINGTON - Stephanie Carethers, 47, of Capitol Heights, Md., was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for taking approximately $702,000 in federal retirement pension benefits after her mother’s death, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Norbert E. Vint, Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RICKEY ROBERSON, age 48, his wife ADA CRAIGE-ROBERSON, age 42, and her mother MELANIE DUPLECHAIN, age 69, of New Orleans, were charged today in a three-count Indictment for conspiracy and theft of federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Anderson Bryan Lever (39, Colombia, South America) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, onboard vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Four members of a crew allegedly responsible for 20 armed bank robberies in the greater Houston and San Antonio areas will remain in federal custody without bond pending further criminal proceedings, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Used Money to Pay for Football Tickets and Cruise Expenses.

By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement in response to reports that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee transferred to Uruguay has gone missing in neighboring Brazil...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant Falsely Claimed Physicians and Radiologists Interpreted X-rays and Other Tests; Scheme Endangered Patients and Cost Medicare Over $2.5 Million in Losses; Company President to Serve 10 Years for Causing Patient Deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 15 individuals charged in connection with a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central Texas and Oklahoma.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Artist Erica Wheeler will celebrate the nature and history of Cape Cod during a concert of song, story, and humor at Salt Pond Visitor Center on Tuesday, June 28at 7 PM. Through her engaging and entertaining programs, Erica creates sense of place and belonging that is deeply needed in the world today. Hallmarks of her program include her warm vocals, poetic lyrics, folk/acoustic/Americana music, interactive songs-on-the-spot, and her wry sense of humor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Offers Reward in Hit-and-Run Near Shiprock, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that four men from Illinois were sentenced Thursday for their roles in a wire fraud conspiracy to steal tens of thousands of dollars using Bossier City casino ATMs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - David Gould, 38, a licensed firearms dealer from Savannah, Georgia, pled guilty today in Brunswick, Georgia before Chief U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to multiple charges relating to his unlawful sales of machine guns.