News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A local man was indicted June 21, 2016 by a federal grand jury in Rockford, Ill. on bank robbery, robbery affecting interstate commerce and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Defendant Exchanged Oxycodone Pills for Cash and Steroids.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement regarding the results of the United Kingdom’s European Union referendum...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Thomas Kevin Hamel, 67, of St. Ignace, Michigan, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a minor, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar ordered Hamel to serve five years of supervised release from prison, to pay a fine of $25,000 and a $100 special assessment. Hamel will also be required to register as a sexual offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: More than 1,400 plants seized during FBI led raid of former Providence mill building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge L. Scott Coogler today sentenced Aaron M. Richardson (27, Jacksonville) to 343 years in federal prison for his attempt to assassinate United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan and 23 related offenses.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: NextGen is bringing new benefits to Los Angeles International Airport through a technology called Data Comm. Data Comm revolutionizes communications between air traffic controllers and pilots by replacing some traditional voice communications with digital information exchanges - like texting versus talking over the phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Law enforcement has taken a 57-year-old La Joya man into federal custody on allegations that he pointed a laser at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Bobby D. Morrill, Jr., 38, of Carmi, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to a term of 156 months in prison for distributing highly pure methamphetamine on four occasions in 2015, announced James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Morrill had previously pled guilty on March 3, 2016, to distributing methamphetamine in Carmi on August 31st and September 8th, 9th, and 16th.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Great Plains Regional Director Michael Ryan has announced the selection of J. Signe Snortland as Area Manager for Reclamation's Eastern Colorado Area Office (ECAO) in Loveland, Colorado.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - William Delonta Granberry, 37, of Hughesville, Maryland, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, to be followed by three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced yet another conviction arising from Operation Goldy Locks, an extensive investigation into a multi-state heroin enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Alexander E. Agniadis, age 28, of Westminster, Maryland, today to 54 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of heroin. An individual died after receiving heroin from Agniadis. Judge Motz also...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come and enjoy "Pitter Patter" as part of the Read with a Ranger program. The program starts at 10:00 am on Saturday, July 9, 2016 at the Parkway Visitor Center, milepost 266. Read with a Ranger is a new 45-minute program that...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today continued their efforts seeking answers about the FDA’s procedures to product trade secret and confidential information in the food industry.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement regarding the recently released House GOP tax blueprint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Site Selected for FBI Central Records Complex in Frederick County, Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Salvatore Letizia, 40, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The wire fraud charge carries up to 20 years in prison and the tax evasion charge carries up to five years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Penn Hills, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months (10 years) imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
