News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on June 20, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Charges Arising out of Five-Pound Heroin Seizure by U.S. Border Patrol to be Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative that Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that on June 17, 2016, United States District Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Willie Richard Short, age 63, of Loxley, Alabama, to serve 6 months in prison and pay $2.2 million in restitution for his role in criminal offenses which involved the buying and selling of stolen polysilicon, and the laundering of proceeds from these illegal transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Dan Reed (50, Daytona Beach) guilty of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. Due to his prior criminal record, Reed qualifies for enhanced penalties under the Armed Career Criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today reached a landmark settlement agreement to reform the criminal justice system in Hinds County, Mississippi. The agreement resolves the department’s findings that the Hinds County Adult Detention Center and the Jackson City Detention Center - which together form...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Demetres Ish, 23, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to seven months in prison for assault on an officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Ish served an additional month on this charge in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal jail. Chief United States District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Ish to serve three years of supervised release. Ish pleaded guilty to the charge on April 13, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Superintendent George Price announces the release of the Herring River Restoration Project Final Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (FEIS/FEIR). The FEIS/FEIR provides a systematic analysis of the environmental effects of alternative approaches to restoring the Herring River estuary.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled a public meeting to solicit public input for the Palen Solar project technology conversion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Perpetrated Bank Fraud Scheme While on Pre-trial Release for a Separate Wire Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Valentine Okonkwo (54, Orlando) to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose and for dispensing and distributing oxycodone outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose. A federal jury found him guilty in March 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Jackson Gillman is so adept at changing into a wide variety of colorful characters, that he is called the "Stand-Up Chameleon." He might be a salty lobsterman one moment, and then one of the various creatures he comes across while fishing the next. Join Jackson for a rollicking mix of interactive songs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 20 indictments charging 21 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Miguel Angel Diaz, age 40, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 121 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Diaz, of the Bronx, New York, served as the source of supply for a Wilmington-based drug organization, known as the “30th Street Crew,".
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing, bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess continues to grow as President Obama this week signed two committee-led bills into law.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Floyd E. Roberts III of Treasure Island, FL, remains missing in a remote area of western Grand Canyon. Responding rescue teams and resources to date include ground teams from Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Mohave County, Coconino County Search...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Rodney Wynn, 36, of Pleasant Grove, South Dallas, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 24 years in federal prison following his guilty plea in February 2016 to one count of kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after the Financial Action Task Force - an international organization that sets standards for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing - decided today to keep Iran on its blacklist...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) requesting a briefing on a current proposal before the commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - DEA announced today the sentencing of Robert South to over five years in prison after pleading guilty to drug and money laundering charges stemming from his role as the head of a steroid trafficking organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. South used underground laboratories in Phoenix to convert raw steroid powder imported from China, into pills and injectable steroid liquids.
