News from June 2016
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and the Committee’s Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) introduced H.R. 5537, the Digital Global Access Policy Act of 2016. House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) are original...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Stefon I. Malone, 25, of Newport News, pleaded guilty today to various drug and gun charges related to his involvement in drug trafficking conspiracy operating in Newport News.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that ROBERT LEROY CRAWLEY, age 37, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e)(1)...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Saturday, July 2, join Rocky Mountain National Park staff and Estes Land Stewardship Association (ELSA) from 8 a.m. to noon to help pull exotic plants and learn more about noxious weeds. Meet at the corner of High Drive and Columbine Drive to sign in and test your skills in weed identification. Tools and water will be provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Indiana Man Arrested on Terrorism Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Philadelphia Congressman and Associates Convicted in Corruption Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GERALD URSIN, JR., age 62, of New Orleans and a retired Chief Deputy of the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (“OPSO"), was charged in a one-count Bill of Information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: In a nine-count indictment unsealed today, two Mississippi correctional officers were charged with beating an inmate and a third was charged with helping to cover it up.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michael Johnson, 50, of Washington, D.C., has pled guilty to a bank robbery charge involving a hold-up last year in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: VALLEY FORGE, PA - The forest at Valley Forge National Historical Park is continuing to recover from decades of over-browsing by White-tailed Deer. Following six years of implementation of the park's White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (plan), monitoring by National Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Late yesterday afternoon, following a one week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a guilty verdict against James Cureton for drug and firearm related murder and drug trafficking. The charges arose out of the defendant’s participation in a murder that took place in Albany, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Greenbrier County man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Edgar Crislip, 48, of Ronceverte, entered his guilty plea to distribution of oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Settlement to Ensure Independent Oversight and Operations of Orleans Parish Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Defendant Used Debit Cards, Cashier’s Checks, and Postal Money Orders to Conceal Assets From IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Clark, Mo., couple have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Randolph and Boone Counties, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On June 20, 2016, Craig Dewalt, 61, of Cave Creek, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge John Z. Boyle to serve two days in prison, given three years’ probation, and ordered to pay a $2,500 fine. Dewalt was previously found guilty at a bench trial of committing lewd, indecent, or obscene acts on an aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore -Ronnie Lester Bishop, 44, of Grants Pass, Oregon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken, in Medford, Oregon to five years of probation for violating the Archeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA). The sentence was imposed based on defendant’s guilty plea entered on February...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Coeur d’Alene Field Office invites the public to provide feedback on proposed recreation improvements at the Ross Point recreation site. Ross Point is a 2.5 acre parcel located on the Spokane River in Post Falls, Idaho along Maplewood Avenue. The site was formerly an irrigation pumping station managed by the Bureau of Reclamation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - This morning, United States District Judge Robin Cauthron sentenced MICHAEL STEVEN MORGAN, 61, of Stillwater, Oklahoma, to serve 18 months in federal prison following his conviction for bribery in 2012, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A woman who used her position as the city clerk for the City of Garwin to steal more than $470,000 in public funds was sentenced yesterday to 28 months in federal prison.
