News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today a settlement with the Columbia, South Carolina, Police Department (CPD) to ensure that persons who are deaf or hard of hearing receive sign language interpreters and other services necessary for effective communication when interacting with CPD police officers, whether on the road or at a precinct.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Andre Clarke, age 37, of the Bronx, New York, plead guilty on May 2, 2016 before the Honorable William K. Sessions, III, to conspiring to distribute Oxycodone in Vermont from 2011 through June 2014. Clarke, a New York City police officer, received a preliminary sentencing date of Aug. 29, 2016. Judge Sessions released him on previously imposed conditions until his sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Chad Roger Deucher, age 43, of Orem will make a May 26, 2016, appearance in federal court in Salt Lake City to face charges alleging that from March 2010 to February 2016, he operated a Ponzi scheme through a business he controlled that collected about $28 million from about 250 investors. Investigators involved in the case believe about 170 of the investors lost about $16 million in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Barren County, Kentucky, physician pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to seven criminal counts of knowingly and intentionally distributing and dispensing controlled substances outside the course of professional medical practice and health care fraud, while he was a practicing physician in the Western District of Kentucky, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gilbert G. Caldwell, 45, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his cocaine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Silver Also To Pay a $1.75 Million Fine To Take Into Account Taxpayer Funded Pension.
By DOL Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | May 3, 2016 BOS 2016-066
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Arkansas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling counterfeit Garmin maps over the Internet, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Marsing, Idaho - The BLM encourages the public to enjoy their public lands for recreational activities in the Owyhee range (southwest Idaho/eastern Oregon) as the area burned by the Soda Fire slowly recovers. Rehabilitation efforts and favorable weather conditions are helping the vegetative cover to reestablish and the delicate soils to stabilize.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Virginia man pleaded guilty today to defrauding The Greenbrier, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Carmelo “Carmine" Carrozza, 57, of Charlottesville, Virginia, entered his guilty plea to wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: NEW CASTLE, Del. - Have you heard of First State National Historical Park yet? If not, that’s probably because it’s one of the newest national parks in the system. With our establishment in 2013, Delaware was the final piece of the national park puzzle. Now all 50 states have a national park unit! First...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert Caton, 73, of Arrowsic, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to six months in prison and three years of supervised release for social security fraud. He was also ordered to pay $162,786.80 in restitution. He pleaded guilty to the charge on January 6, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Westmoreland County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Virginia man pleaded guilty today to defrauding The Greenbrier, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Carmelo “Carmine" Carrozza, 57, of Charlottesville, Virginia, entered his guilty plea to wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Darrell Maxwell (26, Satsuma) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing Molly, a Schedule I controlled substance, with the intent to distribute it and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for the armed robbery of a local jewelry store.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 37-year-old Jamie Dawn McCord of Universal City, TX, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for embezzling over $200,000 from her former employer, Enterprise Holdings, announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: FBI and Ann Arbor Police Apprehend Food Contamination Suspect.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 37-year-old Jamie Dawn McCord of Universal City, TX, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for embezzling over $200,000 from her former employer, Enterprise Holdings, announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) reports shows that 589,156 visitors to Mojave National Preserve spent $33,720,400 in communities near the park in 2015. That spending supported 486 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $42,746,200.
