News from May 2016
By DOT News Wire | May 13, 2016
News Release: BTS Releases Rail Network Spatial Dataset - The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released the rail network and rail nodes portion of the 2016 National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). These datasets are available for download as a zipped shapefile. Due to high public demand, BTS is ...
By DOT News Wire | May 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today announced that U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will visit each of the Smart City Challenge finalist cities during the week of May 16 to meet with mayors and other local leaders as they work to complete their final proposals ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Michael Gerard Camphor, age 60, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to charges arising from the fraudulent purchase of four properties in Baltimore, using fraudulent loan documentation and straw purchasers, resulting in losses of over $736,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: A Copley man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and related crimes, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: The FBI Increases Reward in Tribal Police Officer Assault Case.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office sold six parcels totaling 6,960 acres for $5,222,672.50 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The highest per-acre price was for a 175-acre parcel in Archuleta and La Plata counties in the San Juan National Forest...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Naperville man has been arrested for allegedly forcing women to engage in commercial sex acts and brutally abusing them if they wouldn’t comply with his orders.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: On May 13, 2016, Marcus Dewayne Thompson, a twenty-eight year old Park Hills, Missouri, man pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, to one count of Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking of a Minor and by Force, Fraud, or Coercion, and one count of Sex Trafficking of a Minor...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury has issued a superseding indictment that charges an Irvine engineer with stealing and possessing trade secrets belonging to two former employers, both of which develop and manufacture medical devices used to treat cardiac and vascular ailments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Michael Lee Long, Jr., age 33, of St. Francis, South Dakota, was found guilty of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Simple Assault, Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm, and Using a Firearm During and Relation to a Crime of Violence following a three-day jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on May 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Dr. Robert M. Ritchea, 53, of LaGrange, Georgia, was arrested yesterday after being indicted by a federal grand jury, announced George L. Beck, Jr, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Dr. Ritchea, who maintains a family medical practice in Phenix City, Alabama...
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, chaired by U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), will hold a hearing next week on construction and planned upgrades at border stations, or land ports of entry (LPOEs), and how to control the costs of building this infrastructure.
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), will hold a hearing next week on recently completed Army Corps of Engineers Chief’s Reports for proposed water resources development projects.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MELVIN CASTRO, also known as “Humacoa," 23, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and selling firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: A former Internal Revenue Service Revenue Agent was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for accepting a $20,000 bribe, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. PAUL G. HURLEY, 43, of Seattle, was convicted in February 2016 following...
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation expects higher than normal flows and reservoir levels on the North Platte River System this summer. This is due to recent widespread precipitation, coupled with above average snowpack and already well above average water levels in the reservoirs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John Ryder, 28, of West Warwick, was ordered detained in federal custody today following an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence on a charge of bank robbery. It is alleged that on May 2, 2016, Ryder, while wielding a machete, threatened bank tellers employed at a BankRI branch in Coventry while robbing the bank of nearly $6,000 in cash.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Over the past decade, there has been an increased incidence of bird deaths in Lake Michigan due to Type E avian botulism. Over 6,500 dead birds have been documented within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) alone. Scientists from the National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Geological...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Shilo Watts, age 40 of New Braunfels, Texas, was sentenced today to life in federal prison without the possibility of parole on one count of Interstate Transportation of a Minor with the Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Willie James Henry, Jr., 40, of Mobile, was sentenced this morning in federal court on the charge of felon in possession of a firearm. Henry, whose previous conviction was for murder, pled guilty to the charge in January of 2016. Court documents identified three guns found in Henry’s apartment, one of which was an assault weapon described as an SKS rifle.
