News from November 2016
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) today issued a statement commenting on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) final policy on mitigating impacts of land and water development projects...
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: St. Thomas, USVI - On Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, Raji Yusuf, 30, of Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty in District Court to trafficking in firearms, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Sentencing is set for March 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: NOV 21 - NEW HAVEN, 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 Josemanuel Rios, also known as “Jay," 40, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven Hartford to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Timothy Ryan, 32, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert Miller for distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Ranking Member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, led a bicameral group of 118 current and former Members...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Norman Baynard, Jr., 54, of Norfolk, was sentenced today to 235 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Used ‘Booster Bag’ to Steal Hundreds of Thousands of dollars in Merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former bank vice president pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with an investment scheme involving fraudulent loans to professional athletes. Her co-defendant, a former New England Patriots player, pleaded guilty to similar charges last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Defendant Traveled to Yemen in an Attempt to Join Foreign Terrorist Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted the following defendants late on Nov. 18, 2016, for conspiracies to commit wire fraud and money laundering arising from a scheme to defraud vulnerable victims of millions of dollars.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Rawlins Field Office will host a meeting of the Atlantic Rim Natural Gas Development Review Team at 10 a.m., December 6, at 1300 N. Third St., Rawlins, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Gregory Steven Hunt, a/k/a “K.C.," of Dallas, was sentenced on Friday to 204 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2015 to one count of kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Virginia man pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to federal robbery and firearms charges filed in connection with the armed robbery of the Econo Lodge located on Kane Street in Scranton, which occurred on Feb. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Newport Beach man was sentenced today in connection with a fraudulent debt relief firm, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. The defendant worked at Nelson Gamble and Associates and Jackson Hunter Morris and Knight, companies that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims’ payments as undisclosed up-front fees.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park will extend fire restrictions to the entire area of the Park on Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, at 8:00 a.m. Due to exceptionally dry conditions and the potential for extreme fire behavior, these restrictions will be in effect until the Park receives sufficient precipitation to lift fire restrictions.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Gunnison Field Office is seeking public input on a proposal from Gunnison Trails to groom roads and trails for winter uses at Hartman Rocks Special Recreation Management Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Lewis Davenport, age 39, of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Nov. 18, 2016, to charges of conspiring to commit theft on federal land, and to aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Howard County youth gymnastics coach Paul Daniel Bollinger, age 57, of Windsor Mill, Maryland pleaded guilty today to distribution of child pornography. Bollinger worked as a youth gymnastics coach in Maryland for over 30 years prior to his arrest in this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Nov. 17, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment against Aracelis N. Ayala aka Gordita aka Fluff, 34, Turrel Thomas, 21, and Raheem Miller aka Caesar, 24, charging them with two Hobbs Act robberies, conspiracy, related gun charges, and territorial offenses, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
