News from September 2016
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -On Tuesday, September 20th National Park Service personnel located a body on the Colorado River at River Mile 139. Today park rangers responded and recovered the body,which was transported to the rim by helicopter and transferred to the Coconino County Medical Examiner. Based on evidence found with the body, it is believed to be that of missing 34 year old river guide Joshua Tourjee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: SEP 21 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILSON VASQUEZ, also known as “Will" and “Pancho," 43, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to heading a large heroin distribution ring.
By State Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after a meeting this afternoon with Taiwan’s new ambassador to the United States, Stanley Kao...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of three producers and three industry representatives to serve on the Peanut Standards Board. All will serve three-year terms of office ending June 30, 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Johnson: Over the last several years, the United States has experienced a surge of illegal immigrants entering the country through our porous southwest border. Since Fiscal Year (FY) 2014, over 100,000 unaccompanied children (UACs) and a similar number of family units have arrived at...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI, Ohio - A federal grand jury today indicted two Cincinnati residents, alleging that they distributed heroin laced with carfentanil, a substance 10,000 times more powerful than morphine, causing serious physical harm to people who bought the drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jeremiah David Wallace, 28, of Ranson, West Virginia with illegal possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Three former Starkey executives indicted for $20 million theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former Nevada realtor who owned at least 12 rental properties in Nevada and Texas and filed multiple bankruptcy petitions to avoid paying the mortgages, has been sentenced to 11 months in prison, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 and restitution of $83,000, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: The final phase of the waste removal project at Scouts Lookout in Zion National Park has been rescheduled due to predicted weather conditions. The original plan was to remove the waste barrels on Thursday, Sept. 22, but the project will be rescheduled for Tuesday, September 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz hosted a roundtable discussion on Monday, Sept. 21, 2016, with local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) advocates to discuss civil rights issues affecting the community in anticipation of National Coming Out Day on October 11th and LGBTI History Month, also in October.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips gang was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for conspiring to distribute crack-cocaine, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Alexander Duarte, 23, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to discharge of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and conspiracy to distribute heroin before U.S District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on additional firearms charges following a three-vehicle collision in which he struck and killed another motorist.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Lacey Snead, 52, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty to distribution of heroin and conspiracy to distribute heroin on Sept. 19, 2016 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Worked With Others to Seek More Than $700,000 in Fraudulent Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2, at a Holts Summit, Mo., business.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Three men pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with the sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: There will be a press conference today at 1 p.m. to announce criminal civil rights and obstruction charges against five New York State correction officers involved in a November 2013 beating of an inmate at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, New York. A relevant charging document is attached.
