News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Andrew Thompson, 34, of Westfield, NY, pleaded guilty to violation of the Clean Water Act before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison, and a fine up to $25,000 per day of violation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GREGORY DENSON, 53, ESCRELITA CARMOUCHE, 49, and KYRA D. MORRIS-GRIFFITH, 35, all of New Orleans, were charged today in a thirteen-count Seventh Superseding Indictment. DENSON and CARMOUCHE were charged with Conspiracy to violate the Hobbs Act, which prohibits...
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th birthday by joining in the annual Glen Haven Days historic festival. The event will be held Saturday, May 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Glen Haven historic village and United States Life-Saving Service (USLSS) Station at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). The festivities will include hands-on activities and costumed reenactments.
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today applauded the announcement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it is modernizing its Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods. The new label will present consumers with clearer information on serving sizes...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Jorge Enrique Moreno-Aguilar, aka “Flaco," and “Castigato," age 22; Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana, aka “Chele" and “Furia," age 27, both of District Heights, Maryland; and Minor Perez-Chach, aka “Minor Chach-Perez," “Little Bad" and “Bryant Sacarias," age 25, of Hyattsville, Maryland, on charges related to a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today applauded the announcement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it is modernizing its Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods. The new label will present consumers with clearer information on serving sizes...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Robbery of Bank of the West in Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Maryland resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By EPA Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today applauded the announcement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it is modernizing its Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods. The new label will present consumers with clearer information on serving sizes...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted Michael Lindsay of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, attempted witness tampering, and obstruction of justice announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI") Special Agent in Charge Ryan Spradlin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Baltimore City Police officer Maurice Lamar Jeffers, age 47, of Savage, Maryland, today to a year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for theft of government property and stealing property as a federal officer. Judge Motz also ordered Jeffers to forfeit $3,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., in conjunction with U.S. District Court Judge David J. Hale, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Colin H. Lindsay, Chief U.S. Probation Officer Kathryn B. Jarvis, Chief of Staff Robley Rex VA Medical Center Dr. Mary Lee Rothchild, and Chief Federal Defender Scott Wendelsdorf, today announced the newly established Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) Program for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: A felon was sentenced yesterday to more than seven years in federal prison for possessing a loaded firearm on the streets of Cedar Rapids last fall.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: FBI Director James B. Comey to Speak at FBI and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute 2016 Conference on Law Enforcement and Civil Rights.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former Army explosive ordinance disposal technician was charged in federal court Friday with unlawful possession of grenades, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A North Bergen, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for leading an armed robbery spree of banks and commercial establishments in Bergen and Hudson counties in July 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -The twenty-sixth annual Grand Canyon Star Party will be held from Saturday, June 4 through Saturday, June 11, 2016 on the South and North rims of Grand Canyon National Park. National parks such as Grand Canyon are protective harbors for some of the last remaining dark skies in this...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Over $300,000 swindled from unsuspecting investors.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in partnership with Latino Outdoors, -San Joaquin/Central Valley Region and Sacramento Region, Northern California Consortium - Generation Green at Grant High School will be hosting a day of outdoor activities at the Cosumnes River Preserve. This event is an invitation to experience the outdoors and share cultural connections with each other. Everyone is welcome with an emphasis on Latino youth and families.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2016
News Release: Channel Islands National Park announces the release of a prospectus soliciting proposals in response to a business opportunity to operate and provide guided sea kayak tours within the Scorpion Anchorage at Santa Cruz Island.
