News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Gonzalo Medina pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for attempting to attack an Aventura, Florida synagogue, and to a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Acting U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee and three others were charged in connection with a $100,000 fraud involving numerous stolen blank money orders, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Venice, Calif., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a $2.25 million conspiracy to sell anabolic steroids over the Internet.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: On Aug. 21, 2017, the moon will orbit between the sun and earth causing a solar eclipse. This phenomenon has not been witnessed in North America since 1979. The path of totality will stretch from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. If you are within this area, you’ll be able to experience a complete solar eclipse. This means the moon will completely cover the sun’s face, leaving only the sun’s corona exposed for about two and half minutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Obinna Obioha, age 31, and a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced today to serve 51 months in prison for operating a fraud scheme that stole millions of dollars from businesses in the United States and other countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Stephen M. Schenning announces the appointment of Rachel Yasser to lead the District’s project targeting opioid-related health care fraud. Yasser, 38, graduated from Columbia University in 2001 and Northwestern School of Law in 2004. She has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland since 2008.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a North Carolina man from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) checkpoint yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Fredericksburg man was sentenced today to two years in prison, ordered to pay $3 million in restitution, and ordered to forfeit $1.42 million for participating in a conspiracy to traffic contraband cigarettes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: An Ashtabula man was indicted for distributing heroin and methamphetamine and having a firearm, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - If you'll be on the Outer Cape during the solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, join Cape Cod National Seashore rangers for a special eclipse program at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham from 1:30 to 4:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Marc Wren, 49, of Odessa, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 87 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - The National Park Service is considering right-of-way permit requests for existing and proposed infrastructure on Rogers Peak.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Two Cleveland men were indicted on federal firearms charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Kansas City, Kan., man with producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMON L. KILLINGS, also known as “Blade," 39, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for distributing heroin involved in a Stratford woman’s overdose late last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a grand jury sitting in New Haven returned an indictment today charging THOMAS M. MURTHA, 61, of Newtown, Connecticut, and Birmingham, Michigan, with four counts of wire fraud. MURTHA previously operated a law practice in Bridgeport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Twenty-five Walton County residents have been charged in eight indictments filed in the Middle District of Georgia, Athens Division, announced United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III. All of the indictments were returned on August 9, 2017, by a federal Grand Jury sitting in Macon, Georgia...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: One wheelchair-bound passenger spent nearly eight hours on a bus because of faulty equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Defendant Worked at Southeast Washington Elementary School.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Next week on Aug. 21, a partial solar eclipse will turn day to night for a few short minutes. If you plan to visit the park before, during, and after the eclipse, develop a plan, and keep the following facts in mind.
