News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -William Alan Schock, age 66, of Manistee, Michigan, received a 20-year sentence in federal prison today for producing child pornography of two young girls between the ages of 6 and 8. The judge ordered him to pay $25,000 in victim restitution for counseling costs and also ordered him to reimburse the Bureau of Prisons the cost of his confinement to avoid expense to the tax payers.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Visitation numbers for September increased in Yellowstone National Park. The overall increase for September 2016 totaled 3.17 percent over September 2015. The first nine months of 2016 are up 4.1 percent compared to the previous year.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a report outlining the consequences of underfunding treatment for opioid addiction, now an epidemic across the United States. Earlier this year, Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Steven D. Griffin, 59, of Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced by Chief Judge Christina Reiss yesterday based on his conviction for making a false statement to a financial institution. Chief Judge Reiss sentenced Griffin to 24 months of home confinement as part of a five-year term of supervised release. The court also sentenced Griffin to pay $500,000 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on efforts to resolve longstanding differences between the United States and Canada over subsidies to Canadian lumber production. A one-year pause on filing new trade cases over softwood subsidies ends at midnight tonight.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: HINDS COUNTY, MS - On Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, at 8:18 a.m., the Natchez Trace Parkway Communications Center received notification of a serious collision that had occurred near milepost 92. Initial reports stated that two vehicles collided with a possible fatality. U.S. Park Rangers, Clinton Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Luis Abelardo Ibarra, 36, of Fort Worth, Texas, pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a cocaine trafficking charge arising out of the seizure of more than ten pounds of cocaine during a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint inspection. Under the terms of his plea agreement...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. Five seconds is all it takes for flowing grain to engulf and trap a worker. In 60 seconds, the worker is submerged and is in serious danger of death by suffocation. More than half of all workers engulfed in grain die this way. Many others suffer permanent disability.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Lionel C. Carter, a/k/a Skip, 60, of Wellsville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Today, after a 20-day trial and two hours of deliberations before U.S. District Court Senior Judge Daniel R. Domínguez, state criminal defense attorney Lemuel Velilla-Reyes was found guilty of one count of concealing a fugitive from arrest, and two counts of mail fraud, one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: All defendants face life in federal prison if convicted of conspiracy and of kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that four Texas companies pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a total of $3.5 million dollars for criminal violations of the Clean Air Act at two oil and chemical processing facilities in Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tuscarora Field Office is initiating an environmental assessment and seeking public input until Nov. 10, 2016 for the Perry Project Amendment to the Carlin Pete Operations Area (CPOA) Plan of Operations. Input received will be used to guide analysis in the environmental assessment.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS -Due to elevated forest fire danger, the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) has placed burn restrictions on all open fires effective immediately. The restrictions correspond with the fire restrictions requested by the County Board of Supervisors (Adams, Attala, Clay, Chickasaw, Chocktaw, Claiborne...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that United States District Judge John deGravelles sentenced MICHAEL DAVID PITTS, age 41, for his wire fraud conviction in connection with a scheme to defraud Amedisys, Incorporated, a home health and hospice care company formerly headquartered...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Point Reyes Station, CA - Nearly four decades before the settlement of Jamestown, Englishman Francis Drake navigated the Pacific Coast of California. In his attempt to return to England, he careened his ship and established a temporary encampment while repairs to the ship were made. The designation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Richard Roy Sexton, 73, of Twin Falls, Idaho pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Michael Bordman, age 22, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child and distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on October 7, 2016, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WV - A bill of information charging Donna S. Brown, 65, of Clarington, Ohio with wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. Brown owns Budget Finance Company in New Martinsville, West Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Calif. -- Nearly 3,000 illegal marijuana plants were eradicated from Sequoia National Park last month. Law enforcement officers discovered a cultivation site in the Yucca Creek drainage west, which is in a designated wilderness area of Sequoia National Park, west of Generals Highway.
