News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Grand Canyon National Park is requesting that all visitors and residents on the South Rim of Grand Canyon begin instituting water conservation measures. A break in the Transcanyon Pipeline was identified today;in addition to the breakdown of one of the Indian Garden pipeline water...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher J. Cleveland, 36, a resident of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. Cleveland’s conviction was based on his June 9, 2015, guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Jeffrey Carl Franklin, age 29, of Greenbelt, Maryland, today to 102 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for carjacking and being a felon in possession of a gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today, KELVIN MELTON, a/k/a Dizzy, Old Man, 51, was found guilty in a jury trial of Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping, Attempted Kidnapping and Aiding and Abetting, Kidnapping and Aiding and Abetting, and Using, Carrying, and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to, and Possessing a Firearm in Furtherance of, a Kidnapping and Aiding and Abetting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A cattle buyer from Harper County was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A Steubenville man forfeited more than $1.5 million and was sentenced to eight months of house arrest for operating a gambling business, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - James Spears, 33, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack") and cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that the defendant committed these offenses in Philadelphia between Dec. 28, 2012 and Jan. 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Illinois Couple Sentenced for Multiple Kidnappings and Transporting Minor with Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Alberto Martinez, of the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with misrepresenting a social security number and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen. He was sentenced to time served.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher J. Cleveland, 36, a resident of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. Cleveland’s conviction was based on his June 9, 2015, guilty plea.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office made public a new report examining the security controls of high-impact information systems. The audit revealed that the 18 federal agencies that have high-impact systems - those that hold sensitive information which if lost or stolen could cause the nation or individuals serious harm - identify foreign nations as the most serious and frequently occurring threat.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has finalized the first operational rules for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or “drones"), opening pathways towards fully integrating UAS into the nation’s airspace. These new regulations work to harness new innovations safely, to spur job growth, advance critical scientific research and save lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newton, New Jersey, man today admitted that he planned the kidnapping and murder of a woman he met online, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - Four Gibson County residents have been indicted for conspiring to distribute large quantities of highly pure methamphetamine throughout West Tennessee. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee; and Johnie Carter, Special Agent in Charge of the West Tennessee Drug Task Force, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A second New York City woman pleaded guilty today to credit card fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Sasha Nelson, 21, entered her guilty plea to possession of 15 or more counterfeit access devices. A counterfeit access device is a credit card that has been altered to contain stolen account information that is magnetically re-encoded on the credit card.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Honorees Represent Over 20 Agencies, Worked on Dozens of Cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Los Angeles woman caught transporting a load of crystal methamphetamine from California to West Virginia pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Danielle Dessaray Estrada, 21, entered her guilty plea to interstate travel in furtherance of a drug crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A federal jury sitting in Philadelphia found Congressman Chaka Fattah Sr., 59, guilty of all charges against him. Fattah and three of his four associates were found guilty of taking part in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further their political and financial interests by misappropriating federal, charitable and campaign funds, among other schemes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: “Mr. Speaker, currently contributions to a Health Savings Account may only be made when an account owner is enrolled in a high deductible health plan. Additionally, the account owner may not be eligible for other health coverage that is not a high deductible health plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Xin Franco Fan, 40, and Rex Xu Yu, 41, two Chinese nationals, were charged via criminal information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services wire fraud for defrauding Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company out of at least $1.5 million, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
