News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal authorities have arrested a Bolingbrook man for allegedly using social media to entice an underage boy to produce sexually explicit images and engage in sex acts with him.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - See what is in parks to be discovered during New River Gorge Wildflower Weekend! Free guided nature hikes, art demonstrations, and exhibits highlight the glories of the season at New River Gorge National River, Tamarack, and the West Virginia state parks of Babcock, Carnifex Ferry Battlefield...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
Release: GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The Transportation Security Administration has installed the latest security checkpoint screening technology at Grand Forks International Airport (GFK).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Florissant, CO. - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 73,564 visitors to Florissant Fossil Beds in 2016 spent $4,301,200 in communities near the park. That spending supported 65 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $6,255,300.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Nicholas Feminella, age 21, of Ithaca, New York, pled guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to one count of transportation of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Four Former Corrections Officers Indicted for Civil Rights Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: California Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Edgar Rolando Castro Soc, age 37, of Myrtle Beach, SC, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, to Illegal Re-Entry into the United States, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a). United States District Judge Bryan Harwell of Florence accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut, returned an eight-count indictment yesterday charging a Russian National with multiple offenses stemming from his alleged operation of the Kelihos botnet - a global network of tens of thousands of infected computers, which he allegedly used to facilitate malicious activities including harvesting login credentials, distributing bulk spam e-mails, and installing ransomware and other malicious software.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday requesting information about the status of the department’s Pandemic Influenza Plan.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - This morning, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, toured the Wilmington Wetlands Project in Southbridge, an area along the Christina River already suffering from increased flooding due to climate-change caused sea-level rise. ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Conn.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today sent a letter to Stefan Passantino, Deputy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that two men were sentenced this week on one count each of Failure to Collect or Pay Over Tax. James R. Cheek, age 68, of Waleska, Georgia and Herschel J. Breig, Sr., age 69, of Nixa, Missouri...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal authorities have arrested a Bolingbrook man for allegedly using social media to entice an underage boy to produce sexually explicit images and engage in sex acts with him.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 684,715 visitors to Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in 2016 spent $20,763,300 in communities near the park. That spending supported 282 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $22,328,700.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Deonte R. Dickey, 19 of Cincinnati with charges related to the distribution of fentanyl in an indictment returned here today. Specifically, Dickey is charged with six counts of distributing heroin and fentanyl - one count including an overdose death - and one count of distributing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: A Detroit physician and his wife were arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint unsealed today for their alleged participation in a conspiracy that involved performing female genital mutilations (FGM) on minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Kelli Hogue Mauro, 48, of Birmingham, Alabama, and former Executive Director of the Birmingham Volunteer Lawyer Program, has been charged with misapplication of property worth at least $5,000 from a federal program, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: More than 331 million people visited America’s national parks in 2016, eclipsing the all-time visitation record the National Park Service (NPS) saw just a year before. Redwood National Park alone recorded 536,297 visitors in 2016, continuing a trend of increasing visitation to the park every year since...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Monroe County, Kentucky physician was sentenced by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, in U.S. District Court, yesterday to serve one year and one day in prison for prescribing pain medications outside the course of professional medical practice to five patients during a more than six year period, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
