News from June 2016
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Dear Inspector General Linick: Given your office’s mission to investigate mismanagement in the programs and operations of the State Department, I write to request that you conduct an investigation into the deliberate omission of portions of the Department’s “Daily Press Briefing" on Dec. 2, 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Defendant Attempted to Escape While Incarcerated.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA -The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to announce its intent to re-envision and plan for the future of the Frontcountry areas of Glacier Bay National Park (Park).The Frontcountry includes Bartlett Cove, where the Park's core administrative facilities and visitor services are located, and surrounding non-wilderness Park lands and waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Josiah John Weiss, 36, of Suitland, Maryland, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for possession of firearms as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Gerald Dickey Admits to Violating Terms of SORNA.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Miguel Angel Reyna-Ramos, 38, was sentenced to serve 72 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams, or more, of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Wilkins Robles-Tejada, 29, of Providence, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin. Tejada was arrested by Providence and Cranston Police in February 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Leigh Fiske (52) with two counts of bank fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Sergio Maldonado-Farias, 39, of Monroe, Washington, was sentenced on June 1, 2016, to 18 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Maldonado-Farias, a Mexican national, is likely to be deported to Mexico at the end of his prison term. Maldonado-Farias pleaded guilty on March 22, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: TAUNTON - United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz, in partnership with Taunton Public Schools and the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office, will present a powerful youth violence prevention event for approximately 650 middle school students at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, at Taunton High and Parker Middle Schools.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Stacy Duane Wilfong, 39, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Wilfong was indicted by a federal grand jury on December 8, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a $634,000 health care fraud scheme involving two ambulette companies they operated and fraudulent billing of the Ohio Medicaid program, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Cordario Marcell Uzzle, 23, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for sex trafficking of a child. He was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jeffrey C. Leathersich, 50, of Lima, NY, pleaded guilty to two counts of dispensing a controlled substance outside the scope of professional practice before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Daniel Allen Coats, 34, of Turlock, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States by filing false claims for federal tax refunds, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment today charging DERRICK WHITE, also known as “Fly," 51, of Hamden, MALCOLM HAYNES, also known as “Black," 25, of New Haven, and HOWARD BOOKERT, 18, of Hamden, with one count of armed robbery of a postal employee. The indictment also charges WHITE and HAYNES with one count of armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Casinos Hit in El Dorado, Placer, and Yolo Counties.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation will temporarily close one of the Highway 39 northbound lanes on American Falls Dam, to perform crane work to lift and replace a bulkhead gate on the dam. Traffic restrictions will occur sometime after the Fourth of July, weather permitting.
