News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A total of 16 people have been charged following a multi-year, multi-agency federal investigation into one of the largest synthetic cannabinoid trafficking enterprises in the country.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans held an oversight hearing on “The Implications of President Obama’s National Ocean Policy.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Lincoln County man was sentenced to 11 years and seven months in federal prison for trafficking pain pills, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. William Harrison Meade, 46, of Branchland, previously pleaded guilty in September 2015 to conspiring to distribute oxycodone.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: The FAA and its government partners are expanding research on ways to detect “rogue" drones around airports.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a retired high school teacher living in Sedalia, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for arranging to meet a woman and her 14-year-old daughter (actually an undercover law enforcement officer) for illicit sexual activity.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: The Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park will open for all vehicular traffic tomorrow, Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at noon. The Tioga Road, bounded on both sides by State Highway 120, is the popular east-west crossing of the Sierra Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jeannette Knightner, 34, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin within 1,000 feet of public housing authority property. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of one year in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $2,000,000.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a comprehensive settlement agreement with the City of Cleveland that resolves several pending enforcement cases.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the President’s announcement that he will be exercising his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to renew U.S. sanctions on certain individuals and entities in Burma...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The former purchasing agent for the Jicarilla Apache Nation pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to embezzling funds from the Jicarilla Apache Nation.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga today announced his retirement effective June 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The former chief of the Lee Police Department was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for extorting a $4,000 payment from a couple facing prostitution charges in Southern Berkshire District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Texas Authorities Make Multiple Arrests and Warn Public of Dangers of Synthetic Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Peter Viera, 23, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to import methylone, a Schedule I controlled substance, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - Amy Scarpelli, 49, of West Carrollton was sentenced to 66 months in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from U.S. Bank between 2011 and 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - A former police officer and a technology consultant who distributed hundreds of thousands of narcotic pills and other prescription drugs via an illegal internet pharmacy were sentenced to prison on May 13, 2016. Former police officer, Craig Greer, 43, of Hollywood, Florida, was sentenced to 60 months in prison. Tech worker, Kevin Kogan, 48, of Cedar Park, Texas, was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CEDRIC NEWMAN, 46, of Newington, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing more than $200,000...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Blue Springs, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute PCP as well as a money-laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a plea agreement and a felony Criminal Information charging a New Jersey man with conspiring to provide false statements related to illegally exporting goods to Iran have been filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Cape Girardeau, MO - Bobby David Lowrey pled guilty to multiple charges involving federal crop insurance fraud, theft of government property and wire fraud.
