News published on Federal Newswire in October 2016

News from October 2016


United States Attorney Announces Charges Against Narcotics Trafficker Connected To Heroin Overdose Death

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Robert M. Noble, Chief the Yorktown Police Department, announced the arrest and filing of charges against ANTHONY DELOSANGLES, a/k/a “Taco," age 20, for narcotics dealing that resulted in death.


Roswell Woman Pleads Guilty to Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Charges

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ana Solis, 23, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.


OSHA investigation at Bucks County housing development marks 6th time Georgia-based roofing contractor cited for exposing workers to fall hazards

News Release: Employer name: Home Live Roofing LLC. 936 East Calloway Road. Marietta, Georgia. Inspection site: 2101-2104 Jefferson on-the-Creek. Warminster, Pennsylvania. Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the company one willful, two repeat and...


News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Angel Manuel Fontanez (32, Clermont) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, as well as individual counts of distributing and possessing heroin. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison.


News Release: MARINA, Calif. ­- Effective Oct 15, the Bureau of Land Management is rescinding fire restrictions on public lands managed by the Central Coast Field Office.


National Seashore Hosts Archaeology Month Program in Wellfleet

News Release: On Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 10 AM join Cape Cod National Seashore Historian Bill Burke for "Archaeology at the Baker-Biddle House," a brief talk and walk through the Baker-Biddle House grounds in Wellfleet. The program, which is free and open to the public, is part of Massachusetts Archaeology Month...


Man pleads guilty to assaulting a federal employee at Lassen Volcanic National Park.

News Release: An investigation led by an ISB Special Agent into the assault of a federal employee has resulted in a guilty plea. Nicholas M. Coberley, age 45, entered his plea in federal court on Oct. 11, 2016, for charges stemming from an incident on a June night within Lassen Volcanic National Park.


Alpine Section of Going-to-the-Sun Road Closed For The Season

News Release: Tim Rains 406-888-5838. MEDIA16-52. WEST GLACIER, MONT -The Going-to-the-Sun-Road (GTSR) is closed for the season from Avalanche on the west side to the Jackson Glacier overlook on the east side. A severe winter snowstorm followed by temperatures below freezing created unsafe traveling conditions along...


News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today the sentencing of nine members and associates of the Hankton Organization.


Colombian National Charged for Unlawfully Injecting Silicone into Victims Bodies

News Release: A Colombian national pled guilty to unlawfully injecting silicone into victim’s bodies for aesthetic enhancements, without a medical license or approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.


News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 26-year-old Valentin Renko was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division.


News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene for its regular quarterly meeting at 1:00pm on Tuesday, October 18 at park headquarters located on the corner of Red Jacket Road and Hwy. US-41 in Calumet.


News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Southern Nevada is showing off its millions of acres of public lands and outdoor recreation opportunities at the third annual Get Outdoors Nevada Day from 9 a.m. -2 p.m. Oct. 15, in Las Vegas' Lorenzi Park (Washington and Rancho).


Former American Senior Communities executives indicted

News Release: Former CEO and COO of major nursing home chain charged in over $16 million fraud and kickback scheme.


Williamson County Man Charged with Methamphetamine Offense

News Release: Marshall D. Rosenberger, 36, of Marion, was indicted on October 4, 2016, in a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.


News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Devon Brown, 24, of Everett, MA, was arraigned in federal court in Providence today on a sex trafficking charge. It is alleged that Brown transported a woman from Massachusetts to Rhode Island for the purpose of commercial sexual activity.



News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN THOMAS MINTER, also known as “Louch" and “Louch Ramsey," 28, of East Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to distributing crack cocaine.


News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A former accountant with a Huntsville non-profit corporation that contracted with the government to place people with disabilities into government jobs pleaded guilty today in federal court to defrauding the organization and the Internal Revenue Service, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.


North Carolina drug dealer pleads guilty to federal heroin crime

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A North Carolina heroin dealer pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Adam Denson, 28, of Gastonia, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.