News from September 2016
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Family History Month will be celebrated at Homestead National Monument of America on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 with a presentation by Karen Gettert Shoemaker, author of the historical novel The Meaning of Names. This event will begin at 2 p.m.at the Education Center, and the author will read from her...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Six individuals have been indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam of the DEA New Orleans Field Division. The indictment is the result of a two- year investigation by the federal Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) in this district.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - A couple arrested earlier this year after a traffic stop in Carson County, Texas, and then found to have 3,825 grams of heroin in bundles in a suitcase in the cargo section of their vehicle, have been sentenced, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Joan Manuel Ramirez Lema, 40, of Sterling, pleaded guilty today to charges related to smuggling guns from the United States to Bolivia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Nicholas Rovinski pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Drug investigation leads to forfeiture of a residence in St. Albans and over $79,000 cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - The former mayor of Clinchco, Virginia in Dickenson County, was sentenced today in Federal Court to fraud charges stemming from her use of town funds used to make improvements and repairs to her personal home while she was Mayor, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after meeting with European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney, Deborah R. Gilg, announced that on Sept. 22, 2016, Casey Eugene Knudsen, 22, of Papillion, was sentenced to 10 years (120 months) in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine between July of 2014 and January of 2016. Following the prison term, Knudsen will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Herschell Becker, John Becker a/k/a Jack Becker, and ADA Station Communication, Inc. were sentenced in federal court yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, for bribing a public official.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. Attorney John Parker, of the Northern District of Texas, will participate in a symposium tomorrow, Sept. 22, 2016, entitled, “When the Prescription Becomes the Problem: A Community Response to the Opiate Epidemic," which is intended to mobilize community leaders and stakeholders to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Stole prescription pain pills at gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A real estate investor has been charged in a 14-count indictment that alleges he defrauded three banks and a mortgage lending business. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darrin Landes pled guilty to wire fraud charges involving his scheme to sell sporting event tickets, but not delivering them to the purchasers after they sent payment to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Raldo Mario Henry has pleaded guilty to making false statements in a fraudulent attempt to obtain a United States passport and to reentering the United States after having been deported previously.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Randall Tyrell Steward, aka Randall Stewart, aka “Trouble", age 31 of Fort Smith, was sentenced today to 151 months in federal prison and five (5) years of supervised release on one count of Sex Trafficking of a Minor. The sentencing took place before the Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - Marc Victor Frazier, 45, from Satellite, Florida, was sentenced in United States District Court on Sept. 19, 2016, to 44 months in prison. Frazier’s prison term will be followed by a 3-year term of supervised release. Appearing before Chief Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, Frazier was sentenced...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on 5 bills including H.R. 564 the “Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act" (Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler), which passed committee. H.R. 564 authorizes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man charged with Simple Assault pled guilty and was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN CRUZ, 38, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of bank robbery and admitted that he committed a total of six bank robberies in Connecticut and New York last year.
