News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Cottonwood, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cottonwood Field Office has initiated a public scoping period seeking feedback on a 49.6 acre fire salvage proposal that will include harvest of dead and dying trees on an 80-acre forested BLM parcel located in the Lolo Creek watershed. An environmental assessment (EA) will be completed for the Lolo 80 Salvage project in order to analyze the potential effects of the proposed action.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: With the busy summer months still ahead, visitation to Yellowstone National Park for the first five months of 2016 is up 14.65 percent compared to the previous year. Visitation for May alone is up 15 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A federal inmate was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with escaping from Coolidge House, a federal halfway house in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Defendants, Including Two Who Were Incarcerated at the Time, Conspired to Obtain Jewelry and Diamonds Using Counterfeit Checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Statement from Special Agent in Charge Harold H. Shaw on the Identification of Human Remains Recovered in Providence, Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Navy Admiral Pleads Guilty to Lying to Federal Investigators about His Relationship with Foreign Defense Contractor in Massive Navy Bribery and Fraud Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of Federal Bureau of Investigation, (“FBI"), Robert E. Perez, Director of the New York Field Office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP"), William J. Bratton, Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced James Devwan Pixley, age 26, of Waldorf, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and cocaine, and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Judge Chasanow also ordered Pixley to forfeit six firearms, a car and a trailer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a former contracting official for the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville for filing a false income tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Command Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
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: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that yesterday, James D. Litchfield, 59, owner of Big Jim’s Autorama in Madison, IL, and his brother, Ryan P. Litchfield, 37, of O’Fallon, MO, were both sentenced to prison for their participation in a large stolen property ring. James Litchfield was sentenced to 3 years in prison, while Ryan Litchfield was sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A New York City woman pleaded guilty yesterday to credit card fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Nayosha Aice, 25, entered her guilty plea to the felony offense of possession of 15 or more counterfeit access devices. A counterfeit access device is a credit card that has been altered to contain stolen account information that is magnetically re-encoded on the credit card.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: California Resident Convicted of Conspiring to Illegally Export Fighter Jet Engines and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to China.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: The newest mural in Ashland’s Mural Walk will be unveiled on June 25, 2016 at 11:00 a.m., in a public ceremony on the corner of 9th Avenue West and Main in Ashland, Wisconsin. The mural, which will be on the east wall of Star Liquor, features the rich natural beauty of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DAVID POLOS, formerly an Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and GLEN GLOVER, a DEA Information Technology Specialist, were convicted of conspiracy and making...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Charles Hicks, Fenton, Missouri, was indicted Wednesday afternoon on mail fraud charges in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that spanned three years and involved two employers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. B U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees sentenced yesterday Tony Luke Brewer, 25, of Hays, N.C. to 20 years in prison on charges of possession and production of child pornography, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Voorhees also ordered the defendant to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a former contracting official for the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville for filing a false income tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Command Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that that Gregory Lavern Wilson, age 46, of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously plead guilty to the charge of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced Wilson to a 10-year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 5-year term of court supervision upon release from Federal prison.
