News from September 2016
By USDA Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 6, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service today awarded $6.7 million in grants during the back to school season to expand and enhance training for school nutrition and child care professionals working to support healthy environments for our...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert Alan Rutledge, 34, of Alamogordo, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking crime charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Rutledge will be sentenced to 48 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Joseph S. Heleniak, 72, of West Seneca, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 120 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Second Woman Earlier Pled Guilty to Joining in Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - This afternoon, a federal judge sentenced two brothers, owners and operators of the Real Street Paint and Body Shop in Eagle Pass, to federal prison for distributing approximately six kilograms of cocaine in the Eagle Pass area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Defendant Was Shot After He Refused Repeated Commands to Drop Handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Scheme Involved Identity Theft and Theft of United States Mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cristopher Santiago Sanchez-Becerra, 32, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and admitted that he staged car accidents in a scheme to defraud insurance companies, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shane Robert Smith, a/k/a Robert Smith, age 19, of Whitehall, New York, was sentenced today to serve 37 months in prison for illegal possession of a machinegun.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: A Parma man was convicted of sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Ordered to pay $1,602,327.14 to multiple victims including $268,459.06 to St. Mary’s Church and $245,993.67 to WHAS Crusade for Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former 17 year veteran police officer with the Fairview Township Police Department pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from the theft of seized money that was evidence in two separate drug cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-A Jay, Oklahoma, physician, Dr. Darrell R. Mease, entered into a settlement agreement to pay $100,000 to resolve civil allegations that he violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1970, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1970, regulates the manufacture and distribution of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced two brothers, owners and operators of the Real Street Paint and Body Shop in Eagle Pass, to federal prison for distributing approximately six kilograms of cocaine in the Eagle Pass area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -The following events are happening at Lake Mead National Recreation Area Sept. 3 -Oct. 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Benjamin Bolton, 32, of Glendale, Colorado, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to transmitting interstate communications containing threats to injure the person of another. The charge carries a maximum of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Harkers Island, NC-Cape Lookout National Seashoreencourages all fourth graders to visit the park this year as part of the Every Kid in a Park program. The program gives fourth grade students, and those accompanying them, free access to more than 2,000 public lands and waters nationwide for a year. Visit www.EveryKidinaPark.gov to download the pass and get more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brandon Dale Hayes, 31, of Central Falls, was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hayes was arrested by Rhode Island State Police on July 12, 2015, after troopers discovered a loaded semi-automatic firearm Hayes had stashed under the front seat of a vehicle during a routine traffic stop.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MEHDI MOAREFIAN, also known as “Michael Miller," 37, of Irvine, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 52 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in an extensive mortgage loan modification scheme. MOAREFIAN also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,390,496.59.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Commercial whaling severely reduced humpback whale numbers from historical levels, and the United States listed all humpback whales as endangered in 1970. NOAA Fisheries worked nationally and internationally to identify and apply protections for humpback whales. The International Whaling Commission’s whaling moratorium, imposed in 1982, played a major role in the comeback of humpback whales, and remains in effect.
