News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced today that Beau Shields, 29, of Barre, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to one count of failing to register as a sex offender as required by the federal Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Australian geneticist who pleaded guilty to a federal charge of traveling to Los Angeles to engage in criminal sexual conduct with a 6-year-old boy was sentenced today to 144 months in prison.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: PATASKALA, Ohio - For at least two years, an Ohio manufacturer of thermoplastic lining systems for truck bodies and trailers exposed workers to the risk of amputation and other serious injury by disabling safety devices to speed production.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TERRENCE JOHNSON, 23, of Sullivan County, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel to 262 months in prison for distributing heroin and fentanyl; distributing cocaine; selling heroin, fentanyl...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: Brian J. Garrahan, 42, and Kelly A. Spillman, 35, both of Delray Beach, Florida, were ordered to pay over $4 million for their participation in a conspiracy to defraud federal agencies and federal contractors by issuing fraudulent bonds to insure government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Samuel Campbell was sentenced to 70 months in prison for armed bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence, handed down last Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, by the Honorable Susan Illston, U.S. District Judge, follows a guilty plea entered earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: Dealer Allegedly Knew Victim and Had Sold Heroin to Her on a Regular Basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: OCT 31 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mario Lee, a/k/a “Moe", 33 -, of Bangor, and formerly of the Bronx, New York, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that the government and its public and private partners have completed an agreement to convert forfeited Rutland drug houses to safe, renovated housing. The government had previously filed suit to forfeit the drug houses, located at 114, 116 and 117...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that Big Cypress National Preserve has been designated an International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) International Dark Sky Place. With the extent of urbanization in the eastern United States it is becoming nearly impossible to experience the night with...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men were sentenced today in federal court for distributing heroin in Monongalia County, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against ABL Farms Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Randy Wade Kenyon, 58, of Cuba, NY, who was convicted of manufacturing 50 or more marijuana plants, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shukri Abdullah, age 44, of Albany, New York, pled guilty today to possessing synthetic cannabinoids with the intent to distribute them.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: (Richmond, CA) - On Saturday, November 4th at 11:00am, Tina Williams, local author and human resources executive in the high tech industry, will read excerpts and discuss the research she did for her three fictional books inspired by her mother who moved with a young family from Chicago to take a job...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Casidus Carr, 31, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon-in-possession of a gun before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman is reminding voters that the U.S. Attorney’s Office will receive and respond to reports of election irregularities, voter intimidation or any other activities that would interfere with a citizen’s right to vote on Nov. 8, 2016. The Election Day Hotline - (888) 636-6596 - will be active Nov. 7, 2016 through Nov. 9, 2016, and will be staffed live on Election day in English and in Spanish.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Buffalo Field Office (BFO) will host a Fortification Creek Planning Area (FCPA) Monitoring meeting on Nov. 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Nancy Pineda, 27, of Farmers Branch, Texas, remains in federal custody today following her arrest late Friday evening by investigators with the Farmers Branch Police Department and special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration on a federal criminal complaint stemming from her selling...
