News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On April 20, 2017, Kevin Darnell Williams, also known as “Splash," 23, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, robbery, discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime and a crime of violence, and felon in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - There will be a press conference held on Monday, April 24, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. at the United States Attorney’s Office in the federal courthouse, 111 Seventh Ave SE, in Cedar Rapids. Acting U.S. Attorney Sean R. Berry and representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 33-year-old Michael Daniel Lee Kiper was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for possession and transmission of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Eight members of an international criminal organization, known as the Rendon-Reyes Trafficking Organization, entered guilty pleas in federal district court in Brooklyn, New York, this month to Racketeering and other federal charges arising from their scheme to force young women and girls...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to attorney Sheri A. Dillon requesting information about the implementation and timing of the Trump Organization’s announced plans to donate profits of foreign government payments to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rebecca S. Kanter (619-546-7304) and Aaron P. Arnzen (619-546-8384).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 231,389 visitors to Obed Wild and Scenic River in 2016 spent $4,089,300 in communities near the park. That spending supported 50 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $3,893,600.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Saint Simons Island, Georgia - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 192,906 visitors to Fort Frederica National Monument in 2016 spent $11.2 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 182 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $14.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Russian Cyber-Criminal Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Hacking and Credit Card Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Brecksville, Ohio - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that nearly 2.5 million visitors to Cuyahoga Valley National Park in 2016 spent nearly $70 million in communities near the park. That spending supported over 1,000 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of over $87 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: SHAWN ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant GUO HUA LU (age 54) was sentenced on Thursday, April 20, 2017, in the U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona, to six months incarceration, a $5,500.00 fine, $750.00 restitution, one year of supervised release after incarceration, and a $100 special assessment fee, for False Statement to a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant allegedly stated that he would kill anybody for a fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Long-Time Employee of Child Care Center Working with Infants.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY - A new report concludes that visitors to Grand Teton National Park in 2016 spent an estimated $597 million in local gateway communities. The ripple effects of that spending had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of over $779 million and supported 9,365 jobs in nearby communities. The overall economic impacts of visitor spending during the National Park Service Centennial year increased seven percent from 2015 levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Roger Wheaton Webb, 53, of Fairfax, was sentenced today to five years in prison for receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Federal inmate Justin B. Stinson has pleaded guilty to escaping from the United States Penitentiary minimum security camp in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio, three men face federal charges for their alleged roles in an advanced fee investment scheme through which they obtained in excess of $5 million from their victims announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 146,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two Cameroonian nationals were convicted today for their roles in a marriage fraud conspiracy dubbed “Operation Evasive Immigration," by the organizers of the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Andrew Christopher Shaver, 23, of Grafton, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court to 12 months incarceration for a federal firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
