News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: A former postal carrier was charged with delaying and detaining mail in Broward County.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's Boise and Vale Districts will conduct two public tours of Soda Fire rehabilitation treatments. The tours will take place on Nov. 16 and Nov. 22, and will take approximately five hours. Tours will depart at 9 a.m. from the BLM Owyhee Field Office, 20 1st Avenue West, Marsing, Idaho. Participants are responsible for providing their own tour transportation and lunch. Due to rough terrain, four-wheel drive vehicles are required.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Richard Blaine Gamblin, age 22, of Springdale, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison and ten (10) years of supervised release on one count of Knowing Receipt of Child Pornography. The sentencing hearing took place before the Honorable Timothy L. Brooks in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City couple yesterday admitted their respective roles in drug trafficking and money laundering in the Atlantic County area, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who pleaded guilty to robbing six convenience stores in the Las Vegas area during November and December 2015, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison and five years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: NICHOLAS HOGAN, 36, a former Tukwila and Snoqualmie Police Officer pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law for an attack on a handcuffed man at a Seattle hospital, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. Under the terms of his plea agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Richard Byrd, a/k/a Robert Smith, age 43, a Jamaican national residing in Maryland and Arizona, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, and to conspiracy to launder drug proceeds.
By Federal Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced up to $32 million in funding for 10 innovative projects under its new program, Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR). The initiative aims to reduce individual vehicle energy usage by 20 percent by leveraging the increasingly complex and connected systems in modern vehicles.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ),Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jamel Ski Yates, a/k/a “Goo," 43, of Charlotte, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. to 36 months in prison on federal wire fraud conspiracy charges for attempting to steal more than $1.3 million through unauthorized wire transfers, announced Jill Westmoreland...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jamel Ski Yates, a/k/a “Goo," 43, of Charlotte, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. to 36 months in prison on federal wire fraud conspiracy charges for attempting to steal more than $1.3 million through unauthorized wire transfers, announced Jill Westmoreland...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that after an eight-day trial, a federal jury found Murville Lavelle Lampkin, 44, resident of Anchorage, Alaska, guilty yesterday of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, money laundering conspiracy, distribution of heroin, and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: In a major effort to restore the iconic California condor population,the National Park Foundation has teamed up with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), the National.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that after an eight-day trial, a federal jury found Murville Lavelle Lampkin, 44, resident of Anchorage, Alaska, guilty yesterday of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, money laundering conspiracy, distribution of heroin, and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Nathaniel Johnson Boychief, 30, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 18 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release for possession with intent to distribute heroin and oxycodone, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Boychief to pay a $600 fine. Boychief pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 23, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Franklin Richards, 34, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 130 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on proposed development of a new hiking trail and parking area improvements near the Elk River Trail in the Headwaters Forest Reserve near Eureka.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Sharee Ewudzi-Acquah, age 47, of Westminster, Colorado, who faces child pornography related charges, was ordered held without bond this week by U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix following a contested detention hearing. Ewudzi-Acquah, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 18, 2016. She was arrested by the FBI on Oct. 20, 2016, which is when she was advised of her rights and the charges pending against her. The detention hearing was held on October 31.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Stephen Charles Williams-Hill, age 32, of Catonsville, Maryland, today for allegedly using a telephone and emails to threaten to kill, intimidate, or injure the victims and their residence by means of an explosive, and communicating in interstate commerce, a threat to kidnap or injure another person.
