News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Tyrone Brandyburg, a 32-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), has been selected as the new superintendent of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, W.Va. He was most recently the superintendent of Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, N.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, FBI agents arrested 66-year-old San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) Trustee Olga Hernandez for her alleged role in a bribery scheme depriving taxpayers of honest services announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statements after reports of House Republicans’ latest health care messaging proposals...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Rodney D. Cydrus, 47, formerly of Chillicothe, with charges related to threatening United States judges and federal law enforcement officials in an indictment returned in Cincinnati. Cydrus is currently an inmate at Lebanon Correctional Institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: FEB 16 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Joshua Bickmore, 30, of Guilford, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing heroin. He pleaded guilty to this charge on July 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking "Slip on Shoes (SOS) Bandit".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, DA YING, 56, of Beijing, China, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to engaging in a pattern of financial transactions to evade reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A plastic surgeon with a practice in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for fraudulently diverting millions in corporate earnings for his personal use, costing the United States nearly $3 million in tax revenue between 2006 and 2010, U.S Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE - Nicholas Anthony Rodriguez was sentenced to 188 months (15.7 years) in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence follows a guilty plea entered July 25, 2016, in which Rodriguez admitted he conspired to and did in fact possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Over a decade ago, National Park Service researchers collected coyote scat from 14 sites in and around the Conejo Valley. They wanted to understand the diet of local coyotes. Researchers are now going back to those same sites to repeat the study and see what has--or has not--changed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Derrick Rondell Battle, age 43, of Bladensburg, Maryland, today to 198 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for armed commercial robbery, using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm, related to three robberies he committed in September 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Daryl C. Ali, a/k/a Daryl C. Smith, ( 34) to 57 months in federal prison for theft of government property. He was also ordered to pay $135,494.05 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Tony Chancellor, 24, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 84 months in prison for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 27-year-old Houston man pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations today in the Eastern District of Texas. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced the guilty plea jointly.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Derrick Rondell Battle, age 43, of Bladensburg, Maryland, today to 198 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for armed commercial robbery, using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm, related to three robberies he committed in September 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of today’s House vote to repeal a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) rule that prohibits the slaughter of Alaskan wolf and bear populations on National Wildlife Refuges using methods widely recognized as inhumane and unsportsmanlike by hunters and the general public, Ranking...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Park rangers recovered the body of a backcountry ski mountaineer at the bottom of a couloir on the south aspect of the South Teton Wednesday, Feb. 15, at approximately 6 p.m. The skier is identified as John “Jack" Fields Jr., age 26, a current resident of Jackson, Wyoming.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: “Thank you. As the Chairman said, we are marking up two bills this morning - The Pesticide Registration Enhancement Act and the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Donald Pyle, 44, of Bridgeport, Ohio, was convicted for illegally selling a gun across state lines, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - A Federal Grand Jury has returned an indictment today charging Tomolah Foy, 23, of St. Thomas with four counts of possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe. On Dec. 12, 2016, Foy made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller and is on pretrial release.
