News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Darryl Bagby, 33, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci to being a felon in possession of ammunition. The conviction carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jeffrey Miles Hayes, 54, of Sacramento, was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with receipt of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Chief Executive Officer of Pharmaceutical Company Charged in $100 Million Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney G.F. Peterman, III announces that Maria E. Trenam, age 52, of Cumming, Georgia, previously of Warner Robins, Georgia, was sentenced to serve sixty (60) months imprisonment for one count of wire fraud on Sept. 30, 2016. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Last week a federal grand jury indicted eight individuals on conspiracy and cocaine trafficking charges based on a DEA-led investigation into a drug trafficking organization that allegedly distributed cocaine in Doña Ana County, N.M. Seven of the eight defendants were arrested today during an early morning law enforcement operation that also included the execution of search warrants at two residences in Las Cruces, N.M., and two residences in Sunland Park, N.M.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David Thurlow, 28, of Gorham, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 10 years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for distributing fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Donald Broomfield (40, Jacksonville) to 15 years in federal prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine that spanned 4 years. A federal jury found him guilty on October 6, 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An executive of a California-based biopharmaceutical company was arrested yesterday and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with trading on insider information and profiting nearly $1 million.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Shoshone, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comment on a draft environmental analysis for grazing management in the Craters of the Moon National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: VERNAL, UTAH -- Oil and gas development in parts of Duchesne and Uintah counties can move forward, while effects to air quality, threatened plants and fish, and wetlands will be minimized under a decision announced today by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Scheme Caused the Collapse and Failure of One of Puerto Rico’s Largest Banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Savannah, GA: Leonard Riddle 46, of Bumpass, Virginia, was indicted this month by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah on charges related to the July 29, 2016 robbery of the First Chatham Bank in Pooler, Georgia. Known as “The “Flip Flop Bandit," Riddle was wanted by the FBI at the time of his arrest...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Versailles, Kentucky, man, who previously admitted to distributing fentanyl, that was disguised as a pain pill and caused the overdose death of a Woodford County woman, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-See the 2016 Hidden History Photo Contest exhibit at Tamarack throughout October. With 39 heritage-based images on display, this contest provides an opportunity for West Virginia amateur adult and youth photographers to capture the hidden and not-so-hidden elements of southern...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: SEP 30 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David Thurlow, 28, of Gorham, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 10 years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for distributing fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI and U.S. Marshal Service will hold community policing discussion sessions for the public in Birmingham and Huntsville next week as part of the Justice Department’s National Community Policing Week.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management(BLM) Grand Junction Field Office is constructing a new Off-Highway Vehicle trailhead parking area in Bangs Canyon, temporarily restricting access to a popular local trail.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: DEA-Led OCDETF Operation Targeted Cocaine Trafficking in Southern New Mexico.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - A 25-count federal indictment, unsealed today and returned by a federal Grand Jury earlier this month, charged 16 defendants with drug trafficking and firearm- related offenses. The indictment follows a two-year Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation into drug ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Reina Ashley Gonzales, age 28, of Pueblo, and Ricardo Estevan Suazo, age 26, who was is in the Pueblo County Detention Facility, have been charged by Criminal Complaint with Conspiracy to Commit a Murder-for-Hire facilitated by interstate commerce (land line phones and cell phones), the U.S.