News from September 2016

By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways will be conducting a managed youth deer hunt the first weekend of October at Big Spring. Peavine Road, the Big Spring Campground, the Peavine Pavilion, and all hiking trails within the Big Spring area will be temporarily closed from Friday, Sept. 30...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Roy Lee Tolbert, age 43, of Washington, D.C., today to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for the armed robbery of a diamond store in Queenstown, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez will deliver the luncheon address during today’s session of the 2nd Annual NAACP Albuquerque Civil Rights & Diversity Conference. The U.S. Attorney will deliver his remarks, entitled “Civil Rights in New Mexico: No One is Above the Law, and No One is Below It," at 12:00 p.m. today, Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, at the Alvarado E Ballroom of the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town at 800 Rio Grande Blvd. NW in Albuquerque, NM.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today announced the release of the 2015 Arson Incident Report. All 2015 arson data was retrieved from the United States Bomb Data Center (USBDC) through the Bomb Arson Tracking System (BATS). This is the first time this report has been released to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Davon Sanford, a/k/a “Chronic," age 33, of Baltimore, to 30 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, after Sanford pleaded guilty today to discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, resulting in death.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men, one from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one from Detroit, Michigan, were sentenced today for distributing heroin and oxycodone, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: The Miami-Dade County Aviation Department Division Director and four others were charged in a $5,000,000 fraud and kickback scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Donaven J. White, 20, of Coshocton, Ohio, pled guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Administration Changes Course After Pushback from Senator, Members of Senate Foreign Relations Committee

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 36 fugitives during concurrent nationwide operations this week - Operation Safe Nation and Operation No Safe Haven III. Of those arrested, 17 were sought because they may pose a threat to public safety or national security, including individuals suspected of providing material support to a terrorist organization and 19 were sought for their known or suspected roles in human rights violations overseas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Deer season in the Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area begins Sept. 3, in Kentucky, and will begin Sept. 24, in Tennessee. During that time wild hogs may be harvested and during an extended season that lasts from the end of deer season through the end of February.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: The Miami-Dade County Aviation Department Division Director and four others were charged in a $5,000,000 fraud and kickback scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Defendants Presented Phony Invoices to Misstate the Amount of Import Duties Owed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Reuben Jackson, 52, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery, for three bank robberies that occurred in Center City Philadelphia in April and May 2016, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Harpster.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - Earlier today, Eric Aronson, the founder and head of Permapave Industries LLC and Permapave USA Corporation (Permapave), was sentenced to 124 months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years’ supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $26 million in criminal proceeds. Restitution amount to be determined. Aronson pleaded guilty to securities fraud on Sept. 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pennsauken, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 71 months in prison for illegally selling 16 guns, including firearms with high-capacity magazines and obliterated serial numbers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sherry Taggart, 56, of El Dorado Hills, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to file false claims and filing false claims, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jordan Hildalgo, 25, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy, was sentenced to 262 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also sentenced to 240 months for assaulting a federal officer while in custody. The sentences will be served concurrently.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who admitted to his role in a conspiracy to commit several violent armed robberies in Dallas in 2014, Savalas Christopher Love, 32, was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 147 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.