News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies who were found guilty after a two-week trial earlier this year of falsifying reports with the intent to obstruct justice related to their assault of a waist-chained inmate were sentenced to prison terms today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Phoenix, Ariz. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) will arrive in San Juan, Puerto Rico today to meet with Puerto Rican government elected officials and community leaders on the Commonwealth’s $72 billion debt crisis. Grijalva wants to ensure the legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Steven Roman, 28, of Mesilla Park, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 77 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) trainers provided training to law enforcement partners on Guam and in Saipan, NMI. The OCDETF training was conducted by Lela Johnson, Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Tuffour, 27, of Philadelphia a was charged by Indictment, unsealed May 6, 2016, with one count of bank fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David Foster, 39, of South Paris, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Four Ohio men were convicted for conspiring to defraud investors out of more than $10 million by selling unregistered securities and making several misrepresentations to investors about the product they purported to develop, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Gavin Burns Smith, age 45, of New Port Richey, Florida, today to six months of home confinement followed by three years of probation for selling peptides to bodybuilders which were not approved by the FDA for human use. Judge Hazel also entered an order requiring Smith to forfeit $2,102,684.06, the value of the misbranded drugs subject to seizure.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: WHITETHORN, Calif. - A free workshop entitled, "Nighttime Photography: Tips and Tricks," will be presented Friday, June 3, at 7 p.m., in the King Range National Conservation Area. Participants will meet at the King Range Project Office, 768 Shelter Cove Rd., in Whitethorn to carpool to the workshop site.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Marc Fox, 44, of Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Information with one count of intentionally causing damage to a computer, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The Information alleges that between Sept. 11, 2015 and Oct. 2, 2015, Fox sent unauthorized...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Six members of the street gang La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, were convicted today by a federal jury for their roles in three murders and one attempted murder in Northern Virginia, among other charges.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park will host several free special events and programs to celebrate the National Park Service Centennial. All Events are free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - The Justice Department announced today that Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for calling two mosques in Pinellas County, Florida, and threatening to firebomb them and shoot their worshippers.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for a Town of Estes Park proposal to construct up to a three-level parking structure on Reclamation lands.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Reclamation's April forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rafael Guzman, 42, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of ATF and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of DEA’s El Paso Division announced that Davon Lymon, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Bonnie Jean Butler, 55, of St. Marys, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for her role in manufacturing methamphetamine, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-The ringleader of a Tulsa-based drug trafficking organization pleaded guilty today to drug conspiracy, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, and conspiracy to sponsor and exhibit an animal in an animal fighting venture, announced U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma. United States District Judge John E. Dowdell presided over the change of plea hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - Richard C. Webber, 54, of Huber Heights, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of possession of child pornography.
