News from November 2016
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Release Date: Nov. 15, 2016. Contact: Kelly Carroll, Lead Park Ranger. Phone: 671-333-4050. Holiday Closures at War in the Pacific National Historical Park Visitor Center. Park officials would like to inform the public the War in the Pacific National Historical Park’s T. Stell Newman Visitor will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Felipe Lucero, 25, an enrolled member of the Isleta Pueblo who resides in Los Lunas, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an assault charge.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Abuse Took Place Over Period of Months.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Salem, OR. -- The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Nestucca Access Road (# 3-6-13), near McGuire Reservoir will be closed November 16-17, 2016. The closure is approximately 33 miles from Beaver, Or. and 16 miles from Carlton, Or. on the Nestucca Access Road near McGuire Reservoir. Engineers will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Compton man who admitted to sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl, subjecting her to a month of sexual abuse, and advertising the victim as a prostitute was sentenced today to 160 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Following a nearly one-week trial before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay, two former employees of the U.S. Postal Service were convicted on felony offenses stemming from their scheme to defraud the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Worker’s Compensation Program (OWCP), announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland man was charged with enticement, sexual exploitation of a child and receiving visual depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A high-ranking member of the Gangster Disciples has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for felony possession and distribution of cocaine. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team Leads Specialized Training.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced today to seven and a half years in federal prison for a heroin crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Lamont Walter Haywood, 38, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland man was charged with enticement, sexual exploitation of a child and receiving visual depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas woman, Manuela Esperanza Pavon, 35, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 150 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in April 2016 to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT HARRIS, also known as “Skully Mack," 20, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by 6 years in supervised release, for gang-related assault and drug distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Fresno, Calif. -Anthony Lester, 53, of Fresno, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to five years and four months for mail fraud and money laundering in connection with his embezzlement of $306,000 from a Fresno business, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that nine southwest Missouri residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in relation to a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper County, Mo.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Double-Billing Scam Cost Government Over $70,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROMANE ST. CHRISTOPHER McKENZIE, also known as “Wookie," “Rude" and “Rude Boy," 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Nov. 14, 2016 -Ignitions are now complete for the Deadwood Prescribed Burn. The total area treated since Thursday afternoon is 185-acres. The remaining 93-acres of the target 278-acres should be consumed as the middle of unit backs down towards the river over the next several days.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A drug dealer who sold crack cocaine and heroin on Chicago’s West Side and western suburbs was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for trying to murder a federal informant who was assisting law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Derrick Swinney, 46, of Cleveland, on one count of escape and two counts of bank robbery, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.