News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered To Pay Restitution In Excess Of $695,000.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Timothy Loren McCoy Fleming, 24, a transient with no permanent residence, was sentenced yesterday, March 7, 2016, to 18 months in federal prison for transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. Fleming pled guilty last September to communicating a threat in interstate commerce, via Facebook, to kill or injure a police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant and Five Co-Defendants Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Zak Harris, 33, of Lincoln County, Oregon, was sentenced on Thursday, March 3, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken to 72 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and felon in possession of a firearm. Following his release from prison, Harris will be on supervised release for four years.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Senate health committee members release staff discussion draft to help Americans suffering from mental health and substance abuse disorders by ensuring mental health agency embraces innovation, gives states flexibility to meet need, and improves access to care
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Tuscola, Ill., businessman, Lorenzo Shane Stewart, owner of Ten Acres Excavating, has been ordered to serve 30 months (2 ½ years) in prison for failure to pay income tax. Upon release from prison, Stewart was ordered to serve the first six months of his three-year term of supervised release under home confinement. Stewart was also ordered to pay $1,122,074 in restitution to the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: St. Augustine, Florida - The National Park Service is pleased to announce an opportunity to explore the ecology of Florida’s coast. Join our volunteer Veronica Peterson, Saturday March 12, 2016 from 9:30-11:30am for an informative bird walk in the park’s diverse habitat. Please meet at the Fort Matanzas...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Mi Pueblo Latin Market Inc.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management's Northern California District Resource Advisory Council will convene for a meeting and field tour Thursday and Friday, April 7 and 8, at the BLM Eagle Lake Field Office, 2550 Riverside Dr., in Susanville.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An individual found by the U.S. Marshals, with assistance from the Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Illegal Re-Entry into the United States after Deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WAYNE WILLIAMS, age 38, of River Ridge, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a federal criminal complaint charging JOHN JAMES DENICOLA, 55, with traveling from the Atlanta, Ga., area to the Twin Cities for the purpose of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in Bloomington hotel. DENICOLA made an initial appearance today in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer. A detention hearing is expected to be held on Friday, March 11, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former Delta Airlines employee was sentenced today for smuggling thousands of dollars of what he believed to be drug money past security checkpoints at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Inspection site 300 White Mountain Drive, New Bremen, Ohio
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the March 2016 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced the launch of “Combating Religious Discrimination Today," a new interagency community engagement initiative designed to promote religious freedom, challenge religious discrimination and enhance enforcement of religion-based hate crimes. The Justice Department’s...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Yuma Field Office has released the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the La Posa Travel Management Plan (TMP), establishing a 1,100-mile comprehensive system of roads and trails that will provide extensive motorized access to public lands in La Paz and Yuma Counties, while ensuring long-term protection of natural and cultural resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice, in consultation with the United State Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, is conducting an investigation regarding the actions of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) in connection with the events on Jan. 26, 2016. Because the investigation is ongoing, there will be no further comment until the investigation is fully concluded.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: A bar owner who admitted to filing false tax returns pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Quinton Darnell McLean, age 21, of Washington, D.C., has been charged by federal criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The criminal complaint was filed on Feb. 29, 2016, and McLean has an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt today at 2:40 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge William Connelly.
