News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Sixty-six alleged gang members from the Greater Boston area have been charged with federal and state firearm and drug charges, including federal RICO conspiracy charges related to an attempted murder. It is alleged that these individuals were responsible for fueling a gun and drug pipeline across...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a minor update of its Cybersecurity Framework based on feedback from its users. In the just released Cybersecurity Framework Feedback: What We Heard and Next Steps, NIST is announcing that a draft of the update will be published for comment in early 2017.
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: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Derek Anthony Davis, age 31, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 20 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for robbery conspiracy and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced three hearings that will be held over the next two weeks. The full committee will examine the economic, safety, environmental, permitting, construction, and maintenance considerations associated with oil and gas pipeline infrastructure. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Jeff V. Hare, age 54, of Berlin, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that DIXIE ANN MORPHIS, age 36, of Sayre, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment for POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A)(viii).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Stephen Bean, 55, of Norway, Maine pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to possessing firearms after being convicted of a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man was sentenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Darius Andre “Arnie" Holmes, 41, of Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to serve 262 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin and unlawfully possessing firearms. After Holmes completes his nearly 22-year prison term, he will be supervised by the United States Probation Office for an additional five years. Parole has been abolished in the federal system.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited a Massachusetts construction company after a worker suffered serious injuries after he fell almost 19 feet from a Portsmouth roof.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Prison, restitution, and probation for a man who committed sexual abuse in Glacier National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 56-year-old man who pleaded guilty to distributing crack cocaine in the Hazleton area in September 2013, was sentenced to 72 months in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Tea Lynette Ware, 36, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to two counts of mail fraud and one count of using a fictitious name in that fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Task Force on National Security introduced its national security portion of the so-called “Better Way" agenda - a rebranding of old partisan proposals. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) released the following joint statement after the release of this report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Jose Alberto Rosario-Morales, a/k/a Miguel Hidalgo-Santos," a/k/a “Luis Santos," of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about May 11, 2016, Rosario-Morales, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Nov. 17, 2010.
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 Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Release Date: June 10, 2016. Contact: Brooke Nevitt. Email address : brookenevittnps@gmail.com. Phone: (670) 234-7207 x2020. Learn about June 15, 1944 and the Battle of Saipan with American Memorial Park. On June 15th, 1944 American troops arrived on Saipan's shores.That morning US soldiers landed on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -------- Sherif Abdelwahab Alkassar, age 36, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Lesley Amanda Alkassar, age 38, of Blacksburg, South Carolina, and Katie Leighanne Polson, age 29, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; were arrested June 9, 2016,on charges of Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT card) fraud, a violation of Title 7 United States Code, Section 2024.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Tea Lynette Ware, 36, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to two counts of mail fraud and one count of using a fictitious name in that fraud.
