News from June 2016

By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: This summer, unusual nature poems masquerading as official park signs can be found in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) and the four other Great Lakes national parks at trails, vistas, and beaches as part of the National Park Service (NPS) Centennial celebration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Alfred Drechsel, 47, of Voorhees, NJ was charged by Information with one count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme that defrauded borrowers and title insurance companies, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.

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 Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: EMINENCE, MO:Ozark National Scenic Riverways will offer several activities at Round Spring in the next several weeks as part of the celebration of the 2016 National Park Service Centennial.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Elismar Dasilva-Gomes, 40, of Brazil, pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported. He was sentenced to the time served since his arrest on Feb. 29, 2016. Dasilva-Gomes will now be deported.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Wholesaler Supplied Counterfeit Goods to Small Retail Stores.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted a Lockport subcontractor on fraud charges for scheming to help a general contractor falsely satisfy its female hiring requirement on city of Chicago construction projects.
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 DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell, Secretary Perez and Secretary Lew...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: FBI Statement on Orlando Shooting. In May 2016, while following up on an unrelated investigative matter, FBI agents made contact with the Lotus Gunworks. During this visit, Lotus personnel advised that there had been an individual who had been in the store days earlier asking about a specific type of...

By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special program at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center on Saturday, July 9, 2016, exploring the role of civilians, quartermasters, and other support staff in preparing the armies to fight at...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Today, an Indiantown resident was sentenced to the statutory maximum penalty for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man, who conspired with others to distribute drugs and engage in sex-trafficking, pled guilty this afternoon, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant Issued Prescriptions for Pills to be Sold in Exchange for Cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Alfred Drechsel, 47, of Voorhees, NJ was charged by Information with one count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme that defrauded borrowers and title insurance companies, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALFRED CATINO, also known as “Alphonse Catino," “Frank Ross," “Frank Russo," “Anthony Vitacco," “Chico," “the Old Man" and “Herbie," 75, of Danbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ervin Morrison III, 23, of Gardiner, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to wire fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Child Abuse was sentenced on June 13, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) -The United States Secret Service (USSS) and the National Park Service (NPS) today presented concepts for a new White House fence to the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) for concept approval. The CFA voted to approve the essential components of the agencies' preferred concept, which will be further developed and refined in the coming months.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Dean Windham and Milton Studer, a real estate developer and an architect in Ohio, as well as several companies that they owned and controlled, have agreed to pay a total of $160,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the Fair Housing Act by designing and constructing two neighboring condominium complexes in Hartville, Ohio, with a variety of features that made them inaccessible to persons with disabilities.