News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two men were charged in federal court today for the armed robbery of a Walgreens in Blue Springs, Mo., which resulted in a third suspect being fatally shot by law enforcement officers.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore will be improving visitor access and enjoyment at the Ocracoke Day Use Area. Improvements will include installing a sidewalk along the south edge of the existing parking lot, providing a 10ft x 10ft concrete apron adjacent to the sidewalk, installing a new ADA-accessible boardwalk with pre-cast concrete decking and aluminum handrails, and providing a new ocean viewing platform near the end of the boardwalk.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: CALEXICO, Calif. - Federal officials seized a cross-border tunnel this morning following a lengthy multiagency investigation that resulted in the arrests of four people in Calexico, California and Arizona and the confiscation of more than a ton of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON - A former state representative and Pikeville coal operator, Wendell Keith Hall, has been sentenced to 7 years for bribing a state mine official.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Bigmouth, 25, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on an assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On March 24, 2016, Sarah D. Long, 35, of Council Bluffs was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 30 months in prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Long was also sentenced to three years of supervised release to follow her prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that AMBER LYNN BRAKE, age 24, of Springfield, Missouri, was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE HEROIN, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Convicted Temple Beth El Arsonist Was Already Serving Twenty-Five Year Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Kenneth Fairley, 62, of Hattiesburg, and Artie Fletcher, 55, of Picayune, have been charged in a federal indictment with a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Critical-infrastructure leaders and others have provided feedback on the voluntary, federally led Cybersecurity Framework at the invitation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Today NIST published an analysis of the comments, which affirm the frameworks' current uses, recommend refinements, and suggest future directions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In a plea agreement filed this morning, a San Gabriel Valley doctor has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge for illegally distributing the powerful painkiller best known by the brand name OxyContin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Adam Cain, 41, of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for coercion and enticement of a minor. He was also sentenced to 30 years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Williamsport returned a two-count indictment charging two Philadelphia men and a Williamsport women with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5,588 bags of heroin following their arrest by the Pennsylvania State Police on Jan. 1, 2016 in Loyalsock Township, Lycoming County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sherri Walker Hobson (619) 961-0287.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Bois D’Arc, Mo., business owner was sentenced in federal court today for a bank fraud scheme related to the construction of his $1.6 million residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted four individuals, including a former deputy sheriff, in a drug conspiracy that trafficked between Northern California and York County, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 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 | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Second Man Pleads Guilty to Tying Rope Around Neck of James Meredith Statue on Ole Miss Campus.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MAURICE MALIK SPENCER, 22, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to 180 months imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release.
