News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph J.M. Orabona (619)546-7951or Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael G. Wheat (619) 546-8437.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: New York Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Gibson, 28, of Lovington, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 90 months in prison for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Gibson will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Randel Branscum, 56, formerly the chief sheriff’s deputy and jail administrator for the Stone County Sheriff’s Office in Mountain View, Arkansas, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for instructing a group of prisoners to beat another inmate and then arranging for the assault to occur.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Former Washington State based Company Failed to return Overpayments.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Council Bluffs, IA- On Nov. 17, 2016, Kenneth J. Heavlow, Jr., a 34 year-old Douglas County, Nebraska resident, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey, to 24 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: A series of November storms brought heavy rain and flooding to the Olympic Peninsula lowlands. The park’s road crew has been busy clearing storm-damaged and debris-strewn roadways, but will shift its attention this week to plowing snow on the Hurricane Ridge Road.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to a lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against Access Funding for scamming lead-paint poisoning victims in Maryland out of settlement money...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two men pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Bobby James Mitchell, 35, of Huntington, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin. In a separate prosecution, Antoine Garfield Rushin, 44, of Detroit, entered his guilty plea to aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: The Energy Department today released a first-of-its-kind assessment of the potential future growth of distributed wind energy in the United States through 2050. Distributed wind differs from utility-scale wind in that it is installed at or near the point of end-use to meet on-site demand, such as at...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: A Broward County resident was sentenced to 36 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jamal High, age 37, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 24 months of probation by United States Middle District Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg, for knowingly making false statements in order to obtain unemployment compensation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Homeowner confronted defendant in the residence and detained him on the ground until law enforcement arrived.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Heinrich admitted to abduction and sexual assault of two boys, murder of Jacob Wetterling.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Ohio Psychiatrist Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Nine black-footed ferrets have new homes after being released at Wind Cave National Park. These ferrets, raised at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado, will augment the park’s estimated ferret population of 25 to 30 animals.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: SEVEN HILLS, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Cleveland office has opened an investigation after learning a 28-year-old employee of W.F. Hann & Sons was injured while installing sewer lines in an 8-foot trench in Seven Hills on Nov. 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two men pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Bobby James Mitchell, 35, of Huntington, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin. In a separate prosecution, Antoine Garfield Rushin, 44, of Detroit, entered his guilty plea to aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Kevin Whitaker, Attorney General of Colombia Nestor Humberto Martinez Neira and Colombia National Police Director General Jorge Hernandez Nieto Rojas met in Cartagena, Colombia for a summit to combat organized transnational crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man, who was previously convicted of a crime and therefore prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm, was sentenced today on a federal firearms charge, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
