News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Damarcus Boyd, aka Mez, pled guilty to charges involving a September 2015 kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Cortney S. Valentine, 39, of Liberty, Utah, pleaded guilty yesterday to bank fraud and false declaration under penalty of perjury and concealment of assets in connection with a bankruptcy case, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Valentine was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on Feb. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a grand jury in Scranton charged Edwin Vaquiz, age 27, a resident of Berwick, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 25, 2016, with distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Paul Keenahan, 45, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning to possession of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Keenahan will be sentenced within the range of 60 to 151 months in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release. Keenahan will also be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Defendant is One of 34 Individuals Charged as Part of Investigation into Methamphetamine Trafficking on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: This June, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ecologist Melissa Smith traveled to Asia to collect insects that can control the spread of several invasive plant species in the United States that originated in Asia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Ajo, Arizona - Jesús García, Director of the Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project will present a program on the establishment and interrelatedness of the agricultural history of the Kino Missions. The free program will be held at the Kris Eggle Visitor Center on Tuesday November 15 at 10:00 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Juan Alexis Diaz Pena, age 26, formerly of Methuen, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with the intent to distribute, quantities of heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone and unlawful possession of a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking conspiracy. The plea of guilty took place just before Pena’s trial was scheduled to begin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Three Former Supervisory Correctional Officers Charged with Beating Handcuffed and Shackled Inmate at Angola State Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robin Lee Lovelace, 56, of Alamogordo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 12 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for her conviction on methamphetamine trafficking crime charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST ) released a resource that will help U.S. employers more effectively identify, recruit, develop and maintain cybersecurity talent. The draft NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) provides a common...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - William Douglas Brown, 72, of Moscow, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge to two years probation for unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition and making a false statement, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Brown pleaded guilty in both cases on Aug. 23, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Charles A. Granberry, 40, of Columbus pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to participate in a dog-fighting ring in central Ohio, and to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: This afternoon, a jury in Austin convicted 24-year-old former Temple police officer Erick French of lying the federal authorities about divulging the existence of an ongoing investigation announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher B. Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN EVERETT, 29, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Catoctin Mountain Park offers free orienteering classes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: NOV 02 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kevin Everett, 29, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Navasota, Texas, November 18-19, 2016. The two-day event at the Grimes County Expo Center will feature dozens of outstanding animals. The event will take place from noon - 6:00pm on Friday, Nov. 18, and 8:00am - 10am on Saturday, November 19. The BLM will offer all animals on a first-come, first-served basis for the minimum adoption fee of $125 (set by law).
