News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: This morning, federal, state and local authorities arrested 18 individuals in the Austin area and two individuals in the Houston area on federal drug trafficking charges announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Scott Driscoll Bailey was sentenced for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. The defendant admitted he planned to use prescription muscle relaxers as part of a sexual encounter he sought to have with a young girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Defendant faces 12 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the former president of the Joplin South Little League has pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing approximately $50,000 from the Joplin, Mo., organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelmsford financial planner was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with attempting to hire an individual to murder a Massachusetts State Police Trooper and another individual, both of whom were scheduled to testify against him in a separate state trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced today that a federal jury in Raleigh found TARCARLOS ANTIGO MILLER guilty of one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and two counts of Distribution of Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that ALLEN MICHAEL SCOTT, age 22, of Pottsboro, Texas, was sentenced to 2 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release to include 6 months of home detention for THEFT BY OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES OF GAMING ESTABLISHMENT ON INDIAN LANDS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1168(b) and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Task Force conducted law enforcement operations in the 3000 block of I Street N.E. in Auburn today.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Led by Republican and Democratic members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, policymakers today introduced the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. Introduced by Reps. Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA) and Katherine Clark (D-MA), the legislation reauthorizes ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 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 throwing Molotov cocktails at the local congressional office of U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Agency Releases Final Supplement EIS Carrying Forward Landmark Settlement Agreement That Balanced Resource Protection and Ongoing Oil & Gas Development.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: As the boating and hunting seasons get underway in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve and other areas within the National Park System in Alaska, visitors are reminded that a recent court case has not changed the regulations which govern activities on navigable waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: A citizen of the United Kingdom was sentenced today to 85 years in prison for his part in a child pornography trafficking conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler of the Southern District of Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton today indicted two inmates at the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution for illegal possession of homemade weapons in two separate cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas has indicted a 42-year-old man from Miami, Florida, on various felony offenses stemming from his role in an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) impersonation fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Damien Travis Boddy, age 35, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession of an unregistered firearm and to transportation of explosive material with the intent to injure, kill or intimidate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Adedeji Ajala, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland today to seven years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to import heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that HARVEY LEE STONE, age 52, of Ferris, Texas, was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columia, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing synthetic marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Doug Bixby, 25, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John D. Levy to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He pled guilty on Feb. 2, 2016.
