News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Gorman, 51, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to damage a building used in an activity affecting interstate commerce by means of fire and an explosive, was sentenced to 41 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 44-year-old Helen Benevides Mora Picaso, former office manager for a San Antonio businessman, was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for embezzling from her employer announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: Drug Distribution throughout Four Washington Counties -Restaurant, Body Shop and Car Dealership Searched.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Following a year-long investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the California Department of Justice’s Bureau of Investigation, Special Operations Unit; the Multi-Agency Gang Enforcement Consortium (MAGEC);...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JARVIS ALONZO DAVIS, 37, from Longwood, N.C., to 165 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for distribution of a quantity of cocaine base (crack) and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. DAVIS pled guilty to the charges on May 11, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - This weekend, November 5-6, provides the last chance for visitors to drive to many iconic locations in Yellowstone. The West, South, and East Entrances and all roads, with one exception, will close to vehicle travel at 8 a.m. Monday, November 7, so the park can prepare them for the winter season and snowmobile and snowcoach travel, which will begin Thursday, December 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 50-year-old Louisiana man has been ordered to federal prison in relation to the September 2015 robbery of BBVA Compass Bank in Sugar Land, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Charles Wood, of Farmersville, Louisiana, pleaded guilty Aug. 12, 2016, admitting he robbed the local bank and banks in four other states.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 44-year-old Helen Benevides Mora Picaso, former office manager for a San Antonio businessman, was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for embezzling from her employer announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DARRYCK NORRIS, 23, of Bridgeport, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin. The charge stems from an ongoing statewide initiative targeting narcotics dealers who distribute heroin, fentanyl or opioids that cause death or serious injury to users.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - Four defendants involved in a major cocaine and heroin trafficking ring in the Cincinnati area have been sentenced on related charges in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Rupert Granville Miller, 56, of Chester, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for engaging in a travel fraud scheme that cost the government over $197,000. Miller was also ordered to pay full restitution in the amount of $197,505.83.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: This morning, in federal court in Benton, IL, Eriberto Ricardo Gomez (42) and Yasmanis L. Oduardo Fonseco (27) both pled guilty to possession of fifteen or more stolen account numbers and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced. Ricardo Gomez and Oduardo Fonseco, who are both originally from the country of Cuba, are currently residing in Houston, Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: Palo Alto Battlefield NHP has partnered with the American Conservation Experience on an exotic tree removal project. The goal is to remove Brazilian pepper trees (Schinus terebinthifolius) from the park’s Resaca de la Palma Battlefield Unit.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Matthew L. Dailey, 45, of Howard, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 72 months in prison for Hobbs Act extortion under color of official right.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Gregory Lee Butler, Jr., a/k/a Greg Baly, age 22, of Baltimore, today to pay $1 million in restitution, to serve 250 hours of community service and three years of supervised release, after giving him credit for time served (five weeks), for impeding firefighters by puncturing a firehose during the civil disturbance in Baltimore on April 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: Brian Wright, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in prison today following his guilty plea to three counts of sex trafficking by force, announced US Attorney Zane David Memeger. The Honorable C. Darnell Jones II also sentenced Wright to 20 years' supervised release, and to pay a $5000 fine, $631,000 in restitution jointly and severally with his co-defendants, and a $300 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States District Court Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Meghaj Reddy Kuchakulla (49, Orlando) to 12 months in federal prison for theft of $555,561.69 in United States Postal Service (USPS) money orders. Prior to sentencing, he repaid $275,000 to the USPS. As part of his sentence, he was ordered to repay the balance as restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Members of the Canadian lifestyle company High on Life appeared before US Magistrate Judge Mark Carman on Nov. 1 at the Yellowstone Justice Center in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo. Ryker Gamble, Alexey Andriyovych Lyakh, Justis Cooper Price Brown, Parker Heuser, and Hamish McNab Campbell...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - It was a long time coming, but staff at Wind Cave National Park were recently able to thank the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the Bronx Zoo, for the 14 bison the zoo sent to the park in 1913 that started the park’s bison herd.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Investigators from multiple federal and local law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Drug enforcement Administration, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, executed numerous search and arrest warrants in southern Arizona Thursday, dismantling a local drug trafficking organization suspected of distributing and selling heroin, marijuana, and various firearms.
