News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Council Bluffs, IA- United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Kevin E. VanderSchel, announced on Sept. 23, 2016, Omar Rosales-Ixta, a 39 year-old resident of Carter Lake, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge James E. Gritzner to 168 months in prison for...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Sept. 26, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today announced awards totaling over $20 million to 106 state, city, tribal and municipal law enforcement agencies to establish and enhance law enforcement body-worn camera programs across the United States. Four New Jersey municipalities - Newark, Camden, Haledon and Evesham - and the N.J. State Police are among the recipients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Long-term investigation leads to forfeiture of over $180,000 seized by law enforcement.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As directed by Congress, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be adjusting the fee it charges to process oil and gas drilling permits on public and Indian lands for inflation effective Oct. 1, 2016. That adjustment will increase the fee charged for such permits by $110 to $9,610.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - - A jury last week convicted Charles Rainer Sinek, 51, of Oakland, California, of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute opiate pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Sunalen Arzuaga, age 35, formerly of Harrisburg, currently residing in Brunswich, Ga., was sentenced today to one year in federal prison by United States Middle District Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg for a tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lewis Templeton, 62, of Eunice, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Thomas Gerken, 63, and Jill Gerken, 62, of Topsham, Maine were sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to five months in prison and three years of supervised release (the first five months of which...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pleaded guilty today to a federal cocaine crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Roger Page, 50, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Victor Anderson, 65, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court today to 24 months in prison for stalking a female coworker while he was employed by the Internal Revenue Service, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - U.S. Marshal Brian Underwood, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Richard Collodi and U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson will hold a community open house meeting Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 East Front Street. Underwood, Collodi and Olson will be in the public meeting room from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to meet and visit with persons interested in learning more about federal law enforcement in Idaho.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway is located off of and parallel to Highway 101 six miles north of Orick, Calif., and four miles south of Klamath, Calif. Vehicular access to the Elk Prairie Campground and Visitor Center will remain open. Parking is available in southern entrance in designated spaces parallel to the roadway and adjacent to Elk Prairie on the road to the campground.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA -Are you interested in the history and prehistory of the Death Valley area? Would you like to try your hand at throwing an atlatl? Would you like to know what an atlatl is? Would you like to learn about preservation of a ghost town? Come to Preservation 50 on October 15-16, 2016 in Death Valley National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - The fifth and final defendant in an interstate shipping theft scheme that defrauded FedEx and wireless carriers of more than $500,000 has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Frank Wilson, 55, of Tonawanda, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with preparing fraudulent tax returns. The charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of $100,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Steven Harris, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty on June 28, 2016, to attempted production of child pornography. United States District Judge Salvador...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Nelson Cristiano Machado, Jr. (50, Bradenton) to three years in federal prison for wire fraud. A federal jury found him guilty on June 24, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce the temporary closures in place on Oak Island due to bear activity have been lifted.
