News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two California men were convicted of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin trafficking in Monroe County by a jury after a four-day trial held before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Cheyenne Allen, 40, of Salyersville, Kentucky was sentenced before Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, for mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A Connecticut man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with distributing marijuana. Connor Cipolla, 31, of Granby, Conn., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to one year and one day in prison, three years of supervised release, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Federal charges were filed Thursday in Wichita against two men accused of trying to rob a Park City liquor store where a store employee shot one of them and held the other at gunpoint until police arrived, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- According to Steve Davies, Area Manager for Reclamation's Montana Area Office, water levels at most Reclamation-managed reservoirs in eastern Montana are at or above average for this time of year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a 31-count indictment Wednesday morning charging Kevin Russell Humphreys, age 35, of West Valley City with multiple violations of federal law in connection with alleged forgery and identity theft crime sprees in 2013 and 2015 in Salt Lake County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Richard Martinez, Jr., 39, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 15 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release, for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Martinez pleaded guilty to the charges on March 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 24, 2016, Brandon Douglas Shanahan, 22, of Sweetwater, Tenn., was arrested and charged with intent to extort money and other things of value from a female victim through a Snapchat communication which threatened to injure her reputation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Poplar Grove, Ill. resident was indicted yesterday in federal court in Rockford on a charge of distributing 448 grams of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon, Boone County Sheriff David Ernest, and Belvidere Police Chief Jan Noble.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Assaulting, Opposing, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer; Assault with a Dangerous Weapon; Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury; two counts of Using and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence; two counts of Child Abuse; and Kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted four men on charges of trafficking methamphetamine in north Alabama. The indictment follows the four men’s arrest last week and the seizure of more than 23 pounds of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: The Museum of Ventura County is hosting a special event with Channel Islands National Park to celebrate World Oceans Day, on June 5, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio today Felipe Carmona-Rodriguez, 51, of Eagle Pass, Texas was sentenced on federal narcotics trafficking charges announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph Arabit, Houston Division, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Contact: Aly Baltrus. Springdale, Utah - Memorial Day Weekend marks the beginning of the traditional summer season at Zion National Park. Historically, it has also been the park's busiest weekend of the year. Last year over 71,000 people visited Zion on Memorial Day Weekend. While the park is extending...
By DOL Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a hearing today to examine regulatory changes to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) recordkeeping standards, and whether or not these changes will advance worker safety.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Grand Teton National Park Structural Fire Fighters and Law Enforcement Rangers responded to a fire in the park's North District Buildings and Utilities Shop located in Colter Bay at approximately 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 24.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Kansas City, Missouri, returned an indictment Monday, which was unsealed this morning, against a former professional basketball player and representative for the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), charging him with corruptly interfering with the internal revenue ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer,” pleaded guilty today to unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Charleston, West Virginia returned an indictment on May 25, charging two West Virginia business owners with federal employment tax violations, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Carol ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Bilal Abood, 38, of Mesquite, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade of the Northern District of Texas to four years in prison for one count of making a false statement to a federal agency.
