News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that James Donald Jacola (53, Green Cove Springs) has pleaded guilty in Jacksonville to receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of not less than 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervision. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that William Tore Tint, age 42, of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Anderson, South Carolina by the Honorable Timothy Cain to three (3) years probation. In September 2015, Tint pled guilty to making false statements to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during an investigation, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On June 8, 2016, Gregory Scott Alcala, 44, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 33 months in federal prison for each count of preparing and presenting a false tax return, wire fraud, and making a bomb threat in and affecting...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared for public review an Environmental Assessment for system modernization and real-time monitoring and control for a. project by the Garden Highway Mutual Water Company (Company). Reclamation proposes to provide the Company with CALFED Water Use...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico offsite link affects nationally important commercial and recreational fisheries. Hypoxic zones or “dead zones" are caused by high levels of nutrients, primarily from activities such as industrialized agriculture and inadequate wastewater treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Louis Elmy, age 52, of Wilkes-Barre, has been charged with extortion and a firearms violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: A Miami man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud two commercial lenders and the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) out of more than $11 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Cheryl L. Emerson-Chase, 52, of Powell, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Marathon Petroleum Company to Reduce Air Pollution from Refineries in Five States.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: The public is invited to attend a community meeting hosted by Haleakalā National Park on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, at the Pukalani Community Center. The meeting is scheduled from 5:00pm to 6:30pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing Commerce Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Quinton Spurlock, 50, of Hobbs, N.M., pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws by illegally possessing an unregistered short-barreled shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On June 8, 2016, Gregory Scott Alcala, 44, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 33 months in federal prison for each count of preparing and presenting a false tax return, wire fraud, and making a bomb threat in and affecting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On June 2, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against six individuals for interference of commerce by threats of violence or Hobbs Act, use of firearms during and in relation to a crime of violence, and carjacking, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Jonathan Mellone, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of Labor - Office of Inspector General, Susan A. Hensley, Regional Director, U.S. Department of Labor - Employee Benefits Security Administration’s Boston Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was filed today charging three people in a conspiracy to sell illegally obtained driver’s licenses to undocumented aliens, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Jose Altagracia Morales Santiago, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, Jose Jhonkellyn Castillo-Henriquez, 28, of New York, NY, and Hiram Mojica, 49, of Philadelphia, PA, are each charged with one count of conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, and producing an identification document.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 7, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Jeremy M. Peters (age: 29) of Keshena, Wisconsin, charging him with a count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury in...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT -The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown bag luncheon presentation by watercolor Artist-in-Resident Suze Woolf on Friday, June 17from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the park's Community Building in West Glacier. The presentation is free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Tampering with a Victim or Witness was sentenced on June 6, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
