News from September 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: A Youngstown man was charged in a with firearms and narcotics violations, including selling heroin that resulted in a fatal overdose, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - The United States Attorney’s Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee hosted the annual Strom Thurmond Awards for Excellence in Law Enforcement Luncheon today at the Fort Jackson Officers' Club, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. The awards luncheon was attended by state, local and federal law enforcement officials from across the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man was charged today with kidnapping for allegedly beating and sexually assaulting a woman he met online.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of RANDY MILAND, 62, for operating a Ponzi scheme through which he stole or attempted to steal more than $500,000 from purported investors. MILAND pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging 21 defendants for being part of the Hillside Enterprise, a drug distribution conspiracy which operated for 14 years in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore. The indictment alleges that member of the Hillside Enterprise, a ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Andrew Joshua Munkel, 27, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Dee V. Benson from the District of Utah, sitting in Idaho by special designation, sentenced Munkel. Judge Benson also ordered Munkel to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison. Munkel pleaded guilty on June 20, 2016.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: In El Paso today, Lawrence Madrid, a 54-year-old former Supervisory Customs and Border Protection Officer, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for alien smuggling and accepting a bribe announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Health Hearing on “An Examination of Federal Mental Health Parity Laws and Regulations":
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Kelvin B. Hughes, 30, of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced on September 8, 2016 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 5 years in prison and 4 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin in excess of one-hundred grams.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deboraha R. Gilg announced that Miguel Alfonso-Rodriguez, 37 years old, Jose Terra-Izquierdo, 22 years old, and Jasiel Gonzalez-Rodriguez, 21 years old, all originally from Cuba and now living in Amarillo, Texas, were each sentenced to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment on September...
By State Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) today issued the following statement on completion of the resettlement of Iranian dissidents previously living at Camp Liberty in Iraq...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging William A. Dennis (55, Spring Hill) and Thomas Herris Sigler, III (45, Land O’ Lakes) with conspiracy to interfere with an interracial couple’s enjoyment of their constitutionally protected housing...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Jonathan Shane Culbreth, 20, was charged with arson yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah, Georgia. According to the Indictment, Culbreth maliciously damaged and destroyed a building at 102-118 West Barnard Street in Glennville by starting a fire on June 5, 2016. The fire blazed through several downtown businesses and required the efforts of nearly a dozen different agencies to suppress over the course of several hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on September 8, a federal grand jury in Williamsport indicted Glenn Ming Young for possession of contraband in a prison facility.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will initiate preliminary ground work to support design suitability of the historically significant Leatherwood Ford low water bridge, located on Highway 297, near Oneida, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Ralph Darel Lipsey (28, Miramar) to 30 months in federal prison for manufacturing and passing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. As part of the sentence, the Court ordered Lipsey to pay restitution to the various businesses he defrauded. The Court also ordered Lipsey to forfeit the monetary proceeds he obtained by passing the notes, as well as the computer media he used to manufacture them.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area contains over 100 abandoned mine openings which are part of historic coal operations. Abandoned mines produced waste rock, open portals and, in some cases, contaminated mine drainage, which are human safety and environmental hazards. Some sites contain unique cultural and natural resources.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Demario Webster, 20, and Ira McGruder, 24, both from Jackson, entered guilty pleas today before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Don Alway.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today highlighted a new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing policy considerations regarding per capita Medicaid caps...