News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joshua Matthew Ortiz, 24, of Lancaster, PA, was charged today by Indictment with robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, and with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez will address the Rotary Club of Rio Rancho Sunrise at 7:00 A.M. on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016. U.S. Attorney Martinez will discuss the role of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in addressing the public safety challenges facing New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Today prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton to set a new trial for TROY X. KELLEY on the fourteen charges that a Tacoma jury was unable to reach unanimous verdicts on. Those charges relate to possession of stolen property, false statements, tax crimes and money laundering. The court set the trial for March 13, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: FBI Reward Offered for Information About a Serial Bank Robber.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Spring snowmelt runoff in the Colorado Rocky Mountains has triggered the spawning and emergence of endangered razorback sucker fish populations in the Green River downstream from Flaming Gorge Dam, Utah. Larval emergence in the river was observed on May 28, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Purrfect Enterprises Inc., 262 Clinton St., Paterson, New Jersey
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Houston, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for hiring someone to murder her sister.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah -In response to input received during public outreach the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is revising the Proposed Paria Canyon-Coyote Buttes Special Management Area Business Plan. The revised Plan will be streamlined and focus on proposed fee adjustments. Under the proposed plan, fees would change for each of the units. Fees have not been adjusted since 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joshua Matthew Ortiz, 24, of Lancaster, PA, was charged today by Indictment with robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, and with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Abdelrahim Ayyad, a/k/a Sahid, age 50, of White Plains, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to: an armed robbery conspiracy; two armed commercial robberies; and to using and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Ayyad was originally scheduled to go to trial today on those charges, but instead pleaded guilty to the superseding indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Detective Honored in Washington, D.C. on National Missing Children’s Day for Investigative Work in Sex Trafficking Conspiracy Prosecuted in the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS), National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and Van Alen Institute today announced the top 30 semi-finalists for Memorials for the Future, an ideas competition that aims to rethink the way we develop and experience memorials.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Marion man was sentenced today in connection with illegally possessing a revolver, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott S. Allen, Jr., who handled the case, stated that between June 1, 2010 and May 1, 2013, the defendant willfully stole Social Security Income benefits from the United States Social Security Administration by purposely under reporting income she received from two separate employers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Eugene Monsanto, Jr., 40, made his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in a complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Monsanto was released on an unsecured $10,000 bond and to the third-party custody of his mother pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced today Edridge Clyne, 45, to six months imprisonment followed by six months of home confinement and two years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez ordered Clyne to pay a $100 special assessment and perform 400 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Saint Michael’s Medical Center Inc., located in Newark, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve allegations that it falsely billed Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary cardiac procedures, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Lewis Valenti, 41, a West Kingston, R.I., businessman with residences in Reading, Mass., and East Greenwich, R.I., made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence today on a criminal complaint charging him with conspiracy to transport a minor interstate for prostitution and transporting a minor interstate for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: Defendants Submitted False Information to the IRS and Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 25 years in prison on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, possession with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, possession of firearms in connection with a drug trafficking offense, possession of firearms by a convicted felon, and possession of an unregistered firearm, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
