News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Obed Wild & Scenic River will celebrate National Public Lands Day by teaming up with the East Tennessee Climbers Coalition (ETCC) to host the 18th annual Adopt-a-Crag event at the park on Saturday, September 9. Volunteers are needed to help with several projects such as general trail maintenance and litter pickup.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Mississippi man was charged today in federal court in Boston for sexually assaulting a minor during a cruise from Boston to Bermuda.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Crystal Hudson, age 36, of Honea Path, South Carolina, Travis Attaway, age 26, of Belton, South Carolina, and Evan Tatham, age 26, of Anderson, South Carolina, entered guilty pleas yesterday in federal court in Greenville to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell has sentenced Anil Sahijwani (43, Tampa) to 45 months in federal prison for illegally prescribing oxycodone, Adderall, and other controlled substances. The Court also ordered him to forfeit his DEA registration number, $182,266.66, and the value of a personally owned Porsche, all of which constitute proceeds of the offenses, or which were used in furtherance of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Corey Carter, 32, of Brooklyn, was sentenced Tuesday in United States District Court in Rutland to 132 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute heroin. United States District Judge Geoffrey Crawford...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Acting Commissioner Alan Mikkelsen announced that Reclamation is launching two new basin studies. The Rio Grande Basin Study in New Mexico and Eloy and Maricopa-Stanfield Basin Study in Arizona will help inform water managers within their respective basins.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: A Lorain man and an inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey were indicted for their conspiracy to commit murder for hire and to distribute cocaine, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Anthony Allen, of Memphis, Tenn., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court, to assaulting a federal law enforcement officer and to federal firearms violations, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Aquabeus Demond Moore, 37, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced today to thirty-two years and one day by the Honorable Richard M. Gergel in Charleston, South Carolina. Moore was convicted of five separate counts, one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, John Stuart Bruce, announced that in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever sentenced MATTHEW ASHLEY CUMMINGS, 26, of Hubert, NC to 144 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: TOPAZ, Calif. - The Slinkard Fire is now estimated to be 3,000 acres and 0% contained. It is located in the Slinkard Valley, west of Topaz in Mono County, California. The fire is burning in cheat grass, sagebrush and pinyon/juniper.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - Christopher Ernest Fox, age 20, was arrested and had his Initial Appearance today on a Criminal Complaint filed in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. The Complaint charges him with five violations of federal law, including the transfer of obscene material to a minor...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: An Eastern Iowa businessman who failed to pay over employment taxes and violated the Clean Water Act by causing ethanol to be discharged into a tributary of the Maquoketa River, was sentenced today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to 15 months in federal prison, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Sean R. Berry of the Northern District of Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have extorted and made death threats to minor victims around the country-Victims are urged to contact law enforcement if threats were made.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: FBI Offers Reward for the Double Hat Bandit.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have extorted and made death threats to minor victims around the country-Victims are urged to contact law enforcement if threats were made.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee at a Springfield, Mo., middle school was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of government money, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: All visitor services and facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial are reopening at normal hours on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA -- Calvin Lewis, 38, from Brunswick, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week by United States District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 25 years in federal prison for his role in a violent gang and drug trafficking organization that operated in Southeast Georgia and elsewhere.
