News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment, unsealed today, charges two friends, Daniel Sheehan, 41, of Gloucester City, NJ, and John Hoban, 42, of Bellmawr, NJ, in a scheme to defraud distressed homeowners seeking help out of more than $400,000, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The pair is charged...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that communities across Alaska will receive $11,540,639 to fund school and local budgets across the state. The funds come through the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program. Murkowski helped secure a two-year extension of SRS through FY2015 in the Medicare ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, today, returned guilty verdicts against members of a violent drug trafficking gang that operated in and around Chester, PA. The jury found Donald Womack, Sr., Paris Church, Ronell Whitehead, Breon Burton, Spencer Payne, guilty of operating a drug market within the Rose...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of March 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Donta Betts, age 20, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to making a destructive device in connection with the April 27, 2015, riots in Baltimore. Betts also pleaded guilty in an unrelated case to discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on July 2, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of March 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Altagracia Arias, 60, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was charged by indictment, filed today, with passport fraud, use of a fraudulently obtained passport, and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: A Cahokia woman, who pled guilty to Disposing of a Firearm to a Felon, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison on March 17, 2016, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. Kamia D. McLemore, 27, of Cahokia, Illinois, received a 24-month ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - LaCharles Hodges, a/k/a “Boogie," 28, and Charles Battle, a/k/a “C.J.," 37, of Portsmouth, Virginia, pleaded guilty this week for their involvement in a Portsmouth-based crack cocaine trafficking operation. Norman Stephenson, 35, pleaded guilty Feb. 3, 2016. All were members of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, in September 2015, Buffalo Police learned that Jimenez sexually abused a four year old girl (Victim 1) he had been babysitting since 2012. In addition, the defendant took pictures of the girl with his cellular telephone. Jimenez was arrested by Buffalo Police on multiple charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: A Cahokia woman, who pled guilty to Disposing of a Firearm to a Felon, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison on March 17, 2016, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. Kamia D. McLemore, 27, of Cahokia, Illinois, received a 24-month...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced a “Conversation on Child Cures" panel discussion for next Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The “Conversation On Child Cures" will feature patients and advocates, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: Two Jackson County residents were indicted on March 8, 2016, for methamphetamine-related offenses, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: San Francisco - San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park will host a free Junior Ranger Day event on Sunday, April 17th, between 10 AM and 4 PM, geared toward children ages 5-12 and their families. Normal admission fees to board our historic ships will be waived on this day for all visitors.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Neil Kornze spent yesterday visiting ongoing cleanup work on legacy wells in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), a 22.1 million-acre roadless area located 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The U.S. Geological Survey and U.S Navy drilled 136 test...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: California Man Indicted in Chicago for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Overseas Terrorists.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Terrence Starks, age 37, from Bunker Hill, Illinois was sentenced to a total of thirty [30] months in prison as a result of convictions for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Terrence Starks was additionally ordered to serve three years supervised release following his release from prison and pay restitution totaling $19,260.26.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Two Fort Worth, Texas, men who were convicted at trial last year on an array of federal charges stemming from their armed robberies of several Murphy Oil gas/convenience stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in June 2014, were sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a hearing to examine the Obama administration’s nuclear non-proliferation record ahead of the president’s Nuclear Security Summit (March 31 - April 1), U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned of the increasing risk of nuclear conflict ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Local impacts of moderate flooding include water inundation of structures and roads near streams and could include significant evacuations of people and/or the need to move vehicles and other property to higher elevations.
