News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two alleged members of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston today in connection with extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Allegations include claims of filling fraudulent prescriptions for stimulants and failing to maintain proper records of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Andre Clarke, age 37, of the Bronx, New York, pleaded guilty on May 2, 2016 before the Honorable...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Concord, Massachusetts, A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 964,331 visitors to Minute Man National Historical Parkin 2015 spent $55,218,800 in communities near the park. That spending supported 821 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $78,188.,700.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Curecanti Field Office announced today that the East Portal Road located east of Montrose will open on Friday, April 29 after being closed for the winter months. The road, beginning at the junction with State Highway 347, provides access to the Gunnison River within the Curecanti National Recreation Area, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, and Crystal Dam.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: His Son, Steven P. Reed, Convicted on 3 Counts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Douglas J. Plate, 53, of Navarre, Florida, a federal employee at Hurlburt Field, pled guilty today to receipt, possession, and access with intent to view child pornography. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHERRISE WATSON-JACKSON, a/k/a “Reesie," a supervisor with the New York City Human Resources Administration (“HRA"), pled guilty today to fraud offenses involving the theft of more than $1.8 million...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Patchogue, NY -Fire Island National Seashore Superintendent Chris Soller announced today that National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Michael Caldwell approved the Seashore's White-tailed Deer Management Plan through a Record of Decision, available on the NPS Park Planning, Environment...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 40-year-old James Anderson, former El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) Assistant Superintendent-Secondary Schools Division, surrendered to federal agents after being indicted in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) by artificially inflating state...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Kevin Nouthai Yang, aka Thai Yang, 49, of Fresno, was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to cultivate, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana grown on property that he owned in Hay Fork in the Shasta Trinity National Forest, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: National Parks of the Southeast Utah Group (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) are planning a number of special events in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: A Waterflow, New Mexico man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the abduction and death of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Colbert Juan Jones, Jr., age 33, of St. Leonard, Maryland today to 10 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute powder cocaine and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Chasanow also issued an order requiring Jones to forfeit over $20,000 in drug proceeds, two cars, two shotguns, and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: James Gonzalo Medina was charged Saturday by criminal complaint with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction - an explosive device - at a synagogue in Aventura, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: The FBI and the Navajo Nation are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying several people who may have information regarding the armed robbery of a Chevron gas station in Tuba City, Arizona on Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that JONATHAN FISHER, 34, of Norwich, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession with the intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two alleged members of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston today in connection with extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Former Internal Revenue Service employee Victor Anderson, 65, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, pled guilty today to stalking a female coworker, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: BALTIMORE - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with Baltimore City Police Department (BPD) and the U.S Attorney’s Office, have added a billboard in Baltimore at the intersection of Reisterstown Road and Windsor Avenue, reminding citizens that illegal possession of a firearm can land you in prison.
