News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) today introduced the Family First Prevention Services Act, S. 3065, a bill to combat the opioid addiction crisis, keep more...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: A Williamson County, Illinois man was recently sentenced to a long term in federal prison on heroin charges, James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the appointment of Senate conferees to bicameral negotiations on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), legislation to strengthen addiction support services in response to the opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Eric Michael D’Aoust, 30, of Manchester, New Hampshire, appeared in U.S. District Court today and was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for committing three bank robberies in Manchester, New Hampshire in November of last year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - The Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team and Fire Management Officer at Guadalupe Mountains National Park have assessed and determined the Coyote Fire's containment is at 100 percent. The incident's BAER team has completed its post fire assessment of the Park's infrastructure in the affected fire area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Norman Preston Stephenson, 35, and Samuel Gray, aka Pig, 36, both of Portsmouth, were sentenced today to 264 months, and 120 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. Additionally, Stephenson was sentenced to 10 years of supervised release and Gray was sentenced to five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland attorney was convicted of money laundering for accepting $20,000 in purported drug proceeds and agreeing to launder the money, said Carole Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five members of the international street gang “Mara Salvatrucha" (also known as MS-13) - including two top-ranking members who were directing gang operations from California prison cells - today admitted their roles in crimes including racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder, extortion and drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Gresham Man Arrested for Alleged Sex Abuse Aboard an Aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a man from Maurice pleaded guilty to having an unregistered sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ronald Dodd, 32, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute heroin, and possession and brandishing of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to nine years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit a.380 caliber pistol and rounds of ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Park to Host President and First Family; Record Visitation Continues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Bob Odrzywolski, 72, of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Woldford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: David Gotterup Admitted to Causing More Than $3.5 Million in Losses.
By State Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: When the Financial Action Task Force meets next week, I urge the Treasury Department to use the influence of the United States to ensure that Iran remains on the list of countries designated by the Task Force as “high-risk and non-cooperative jurisdictions" for money laundering and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and 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," ...
By State Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2016 (H.R.5208 ), the State Sponsors of Terrorism Review Enhancement Act (H.R.5484 ), and the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2016 (H.R.5332 ) at the full Committee markup...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On June 16, 2016, Thomas Alexander Davis III, age 40, of Indiana, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to life imprisonment for bank robbery announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. A jury found Davis guilty of this offense on February...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Effective Monday, June 20, the Bureau of Land Management will implement fire restrictions for public lands managed by the Arcata, Redding and Ukiah Field Offices. Restrictions affect public land managed by the BLM in Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity, Shasta, Tehama, Butte, Siskiyou, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Yolo, Colusa, Glenn and Solano counties. The restrictions will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: An Alabama real estate investor pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in southern Alabama, the Department of Justice announced today.
