News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man who illegally sold five firearms in less than a month and agreed to sell three more during an undercover operation last year has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Virginia man pleaded guilty on October 4, 2016 in United States District Court in Scranton, before United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to a firearms charge filed in connection with the armed robbery of the Econo Lodge in Scranton on Feb. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Both Law Enforcement and Non-Profits Funded to Protect and Assist Children and Teens.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Sex trafficking organization engaged in widespread visa fraud to recruit victims into the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - United States Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Asheville has returned a criminal indictment against Seth Pickering, charging him with one count of first degree murder for allegedly killing his daughter, Lila Pickering. Seth Pickering...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 22-year-old Maine resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: FBI Seeking Individual Who May Have Information Regarding the Identity of a Child Sexual Assault Victim.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore welcomes photographer Bryan Mitchell as the 2016 Artist-in-Residence (AIR). Born and raised in Michigan, Bryan Mitchell's love for photography and the outdoors will coincide and help the park celebrate its 50th anniversary on October 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Nitro man was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison for a sex crime involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Mark Anthony Levitt, 38, previously pleaded guilty to using an app on his cell phone to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. After Levitt is released from prison, he will be on federal supervised release for 25 years and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Edgar Amador-Carrillo, age 23, and Atenedoro Hernandez-Gomez, age 28, both of Malta, Idaho, were sentenced yesterday for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hernandez-Gomez was also sentenced for unlawful possession of a firearm. Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A former lab manager from Raleigh County who falsified data pleaded guilty today to a violation of the Clean Water Act, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. John Brewer, 62, of Beaver, is the second former employee of Appalachian Laboratories to be prosecuted for a federal crime involving the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Michael Johnson (56, Odessa) to 18 months in federal prison for embezzlement and misapplication of funds. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $152,783, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Johnson was adjudicated guilty on July 8, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - In recognition of National Community Policing Week (October 2-8, 2016) and the first national Coffee with a Cop Day, representatives of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida, together with law enforcement officers across the district, will share a cup of coffee and conversations with members of their communities on Thursday, October 6, and Friday, October 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROYLEY A. FOLSE, JR., age 69, a resident of St. James Parish, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of selling migratory game birds, in violation of 16 U.S.C. §§703 and 707.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: However, the findings also confirm other work by NOAA scientists offsite link that conclude fossil fuel facilities are not directly responsible for the increased rate of global atmospheric methane emissions measured in the atmosphere since 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raytown, Mo., man who formerly worked at a karate studio in Lee’s Summit, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for distributing and receiving child pornography over the Internet.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is now seeking comments on proposed statewide supplementary rules designed to increase and sustain the quality of public lands and recreation by reducing resource damage and risks to public health and safety. The proposed supplementary rules will apply to all public lands and BLM facilities in Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that MICHAEL RICHO, 34, of Wallingford, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with access device fraud, computer fraud, wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering offenses in connection with a scheme to steal bitcoins in an online phishing scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Five Years Later, Law Enforcement Still Seeking Information About Triple Murder on Mississippi Gulf Coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY GENTILE, 34, of Ansonia, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of using a telephone to facilitate the distribution of amphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance.
