News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - One of two local men who violently robbed a Summerlin bank in January 2015, has been convicted by a federal jury of multiple felony counts, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two men pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Willie Keaton Goodson III, 22, of Ronceverte, entered his guilty plea to distribution of oxymorphone. In a separate prosecution, David Pfost, 31, of Beckley, pleaded guilty to distributing oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - An Abingdon woman who was part of a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: MISSOULA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana and the Missoula Police Department will host a two-day training titled “Sex Trafficking: Investigation and Prosecution." The Mansfield Center at the University of Montana, the Montana DOJ Children’s Justice Center, FBI’s Montana Regional...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: The charges arose out of the armed bank robberies of TD Bank in Portland on Oct. 3, 2015 and of Bangor Savings Bank (“BSB") in Portland on Oct. 12, 2015. In both instances, the defendant used a firearm to rob the banks. He absconded with $2,846 from TD Bank and with $14,189 from BSB. Following the BSB robbery, he was apprehended by a Portland Police officer in a nearby parking area and found to be in possession of a silver Harrington and Richardson revolver.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Hack into U.S. Defense Contractors’ Systems to Steal Sensitive Military Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Richard Sullivan, 23, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pled guilty on Tuesday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Members of the Committee on Education and the Workforce today introduced the Improving Safe Care for the Prevention of Infant Abuse and Neglect Act. The legislation will strengthen efforts to prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect by strengthening and requiring the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to better ensure states are meeting current child welfare requirements. Upon introduction, the bill’s co-sponsors released the following statements...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TAYSIR MUHAMMAD, a/k/a “Tommy," age 46, of Kenner; EUGENE TUMBS, a/k/a “Mr. G," age 68, of New Orleans; and his daughter KATHY TUMBS, 45, also of New Orleans, were sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded the United States government of over $1,000,000 in food stamp benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Robert Ervin, 20, of Marlborough, New Hampshire, pled guilty in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to distributing heroin, possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it, and possessing a firearm as a regular user of heroin, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Trazzonna Jacobs, 27, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to one charge of stealing from the United States Mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that last night a federal jury convicted Darlene V. Krueger, age 54, of Destrehan, Louisiana, of six federal felony offenses in connection with a scheme to sell illegal and mislabelled diet pills to victims throughout Louisiana. She was acquitted on one count. The jury’s verdicts followed a seven-day trial before U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles. The sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: On Wednesday, March 23 NIST Boulder Labs in Boulder, CO is closed due to a continuing snow storm. All conferences and meetings are cancelled or postponed.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) expects thousands of birds may be saved each year because of changes the agency has made to its communication tower lighting standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), together with the support of all House Judiciary Democrats, introduced a resolution (H.Res. 661) that urges the Senate to observe regular order and to give President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court full and fair consideration and an up-or-down vote.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Red Rock/Sloan Field is seeking input regarding issues related to revegetating, recovering and reducing future fire risk for two wildland fire sites within Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for committing four armed robberies of commercial establishments in Mercer county, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A West Warwick resident, currently on parole after having been convicted and sentenced in Rhode Island state court in October 2008 on felony assault, robbery and firearm charges, was ordered detained in federal custody today for allegedly possessing and trafficking the synthetic drug MDMA, and for being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Second Rape Occurred Outside a D.C. Middle School on Thanksgiving 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Pascual Carlos Pietri, 53, of Port Richey, Florida, was sentenced to 37 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew of the Middle District of Florida for his role in a 2012 cross burning. He pleaded guilty on June 30, 2015, to one count of conspiring with others to threaten, intimidate and interfere with an interracial couple’s enjoyment of their housing rights.
