News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that HENRIETTA KAMBI, age 59, of New Orleans, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to Food Stamp Fraud for receiving approximately $132,768 from the United State Department of Agriculture based upon food stamp benefits through her store, CTN Grocery, located in New Orleans, that were not authorized.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA -.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Initiative safely collects over 5,800 pounds of West Virginia's unused prescription drugs.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today that approximately $11.6 million is available through state departments of agriculture to make organic certification more affordable for organic producers and handlers across the country.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Work to improve the Dyea Flats road is tentatively scheduled to begin on May 9 through August 25th as part of a Federal Highways funded project to improve the National Park Service (NPS) owned portion of the road and the public access between the Slide Cemetery and the Lost Lake Trailhead. Road construction...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Two Cleveland men were indicted for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Chad Allen Workman, 38, of Beverly, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for his role in an oxycodone and marijuana distribution operation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Leonardo Cesar Pulido-Escamilla, 39, a Mexican national who previously resided in Yuba City and other California cities, pleaded guilty today to making a false statement in an application for a United States Passport, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Celebrated each April, National Park Week is an excellent opportunity for visitors to explore amazing places, discover open spaces, and celebrate America's "best idea" -their national parks! This year, the National Park Service also is celebrating its 100thanniversary and Buffalo National River held several events to commemorate both the Centennial and National Park Week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brooklyn, New York, man who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List in 1988 today admitted robbing a TD Bank in Oakland, New Jersey, in April 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT STEWART, a/k/a “Bob," was sentenced to four years’ probation, with the first year to be served in home detention, and $150,000 in forfeiture for conspiring to use inside information provided by...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Yakima - Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Charles Pete Eyle, age 52, of the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation, was sentenced after having previously been being convicted of two counts of Attempted Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor...
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Drinking two glasses of cranberry juice a day can lead to significant heart health benefits, according to a study led by Janet Novotny, an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) physiologist at the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tom Begaye, Jr., 27, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Waterflow, N.M., made his initial appearance this morning in federal court in Farmington, N.M., on a criminal complaint charging him with kidnapping and murdering an 11-year-old Navajo child. Begaye remains in federal custody...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violation federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Hart Produce Co. Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 38-year-old federal inmate has been indicted for escaping from a Federal Correctional Complex in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Reaches $475,000 Settlement With Beaumont, Texas, to Resolve Disability Discrimination in Housing Lawsuit.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury sitting in Houston has convicted a 48-year-old Houston man for the robbery of two local banks and the attempted robbery of another as well as another charge of escape, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury deliberated for approximately five hours before convicting Henry Lee London Jr. on all counts as charged following a three-day-trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former prison guard at the Federal Detention Center in Houston has entered a guilty pleato one count of sexual abuse of a ward, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
