News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Scranton man and a Virginia man pleaded guilty in United States District Court in Scranton on Oct. 18, 2016, before United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to a firearms charge filed in connection with the armed robbery of the Econo Lodge located on Kane Street in Scranton, which occurred on Feb. 13, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Kings Canyon National Park & Sequoia National Forest, Calif. Oct. 19, 2016 - The USDA Forest Service and the National Park Service are planning to start the Sequoia Creek Prescribed Burn as early as next Monday. This date was selected due to favorable weather and approval by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. The burn is located north of Highway 180, between the Big Stump Entrance to Kings Canyon National Park and Wilsonia Village.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Speakers, music, and light refreshments on Tuesday, Nov. 1, mark Wind Cave National Park’s celebration of the designation of the bison as the National Mammal. The event kicks off at 2:30 p.m. on the Wind Cave National Park Visitor Center front lawn. The keynote speaker is Congresswoman Kristi Noem, lead co-sponsor for the National Bison Legacy Act, which President Obama signed into law earlier this year.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Saturday Special programs on October 22 and 29. Sleeping Bear Inn tours and an avian botulism beach walk highlight the next two Saturdays at the National Lakeshore.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: The owner of a New Orleans medical service company and a doctor who served as the company’s medical director were sentenced to prison today for their involvement in a $34 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Boston, MA - This weekend DEA will once again conduct one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday October 22 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. the public can dispose of their expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications at one of 566 collection...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday afternoon, a federal jury sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found John Wayne Hargrove, 57, of Pierce, Ariz., guilty on marijuana trafficking charges after a two-day trial. The guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division, and Chief Patrol Agent Jeffrey D. Self of the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN B. JEFFREY, also known as TUCKER JEFFREY, 49, formerly of New Canaan, Conn., and currently a resident of Denver, Colo., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding investors of more than $1.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Carl Weatherman, 34, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 75 months in prison for his conviction on a receipt of child pornography charge. Weatherman will be on supervised release for ten years after completing his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Sean R. Waite will hold a press conference at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, at the U.S. Attorney’s Office to promote community participation in DEA’s 12th National Take Back Event, which is scheduled for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today that members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi and their law enforcement partners met with students at three Jackson middle schools as part of his office’s annual Student Pledge Against Gun Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Augustine Jackson, 32, of Williston, North Dakota, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute heroin, oxycodone and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Jackson was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d'Alene on April 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport optometrist was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for writing prescriptions for non-patients and non-medical purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: A former Division Director of the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department pled guilty for his involvement in a $5,000,000 fraud and kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Damion Colabatistto, 39, of Rochester, NY was convicted following a jury trial of murder, conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin and possessing firearms during, in relation to and in furtherance of the narcotics conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - On Saturday, Oct. 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its 12th opportunity in six years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a south suburban man on sex trafficking charges for allegedly bringing a minor to Wisconsin to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 13 indictments charging 14 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: After Two Years Evading Justice, Defendant Arrested on Charges of Murdering Two Men in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Monticello Field Office invites the public to an open house at the Kane Gulch Ranger Station on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. to view the ​recently installed exhibit “Cedar Mesa Through Time: Place, Archaeology...
