News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, ELLIS LEON GIBBS, jR., 53, of Engelhard, and DWAYNE J. HOPKINS, 43, of Belhaven, pled guilty to federal charges regarding the illegal harvest and sale of Atlantic striped bass from federal waters off the coast of North Carolina during 2010. GIBBS also pled guilty to obstructing a boarding by the United States Coast Guard.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Brunswick, GA- Daniel Roger Alo, 46, pleaded guilty today in federal court before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood for his role in running a drug trafficking organization out of the Calhoun State Prison in Morgan, Georgia. Last September, a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah indicted Alo and 15 other defendants regarding a drug trafficking organization operating in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and elsewhere.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The following events are happening at Lake Mead National Recreation Area Jan. 28 to April 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Property Dispute and $150,000 Life Insurance Policy Provided Motivation for Crime.
By State Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined a majority of committee members in voting to favorably report the nomination of Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State to the full Senate for consideration.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO -- The National Park Service fulfilled the next step toward the future of Alcatraz Ferry Embarkation today with the release of a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for establishing a long-term embarkation site for passenger service between the northern San Francisco waterfront and Alcatraz Island. The Port of San Francisco is a cooperating agency for the EIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge last week sentenced a Sylacauga woman to three months in prison, followed by three month’s home detention for embezzling more than $23,000 from a construction trades union local based in Irondale, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards, District Director Craig Neel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former office manager at Mountain State Justice who embezzled over $1.5 million pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kim Cooper, 55, of St. Albans, entered her guilty plea to wire fraud and tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Chadwick Stanley Ghesquiere, 38, of Virginia Beach was sentenced today to 11 years in prison for his role in an attempted murder-for-hire plot to kill his wife.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Special Activities Planned at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Miguel Angel Manjivar, aka “Masflow or “Garra," age 25, of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 30 years in federal prison for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, and to life in prison for murder in aid of racketeering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Shawn McIntosh, 24, pleaded guilty today in federal court on St. Croix before United States Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon to being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that sentences were imposed upon Tamara Andreatta, age 45, and Stacy Rix, 47, both of Albany, on Jan. 19, 2017, in Albany, GA, by the Honorable Leslie J. Abrams, District Judge for the Middle District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Today, six more individuals pleaded guilty to their roles in a drug trafficking and money
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ramon Quezada, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: A mother and son were convicted of crimes related to a $7 million home healthcare fraud conspiracy in which they provided forged documents and fraudulent forms to bill for services that were not provided.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Release Date: Jan. 24, 2017. Contact: Mike Gawel, Chief of Resources Management. Phone: 671-477-7278, extension 1010. Dangerous Jellyfish Reported At Asan Beach. National Park Service staff urge the public to be aware of Portuguese Man-of-War (also known as Blue Bottle), a type of stinging jellyfish...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Kenneth Ray Matthews, 44, of Portsmouth, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and transferring a firearm to a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Brunswick, GA- Daniel Roger Alo, 46, pleaded guilty today in federal court before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood for his role in running a drug trafficking organization out of the Calhoun State Prison in Morgan, Georgia. Last September, a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah indicted Alo and 15 other defendants regarding a drug trafficking organization operating in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - AMANDA HOCK, 35, of Kingsland, Georgia, pled guilty today to having illegal sexual contact with an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma ("FCI-El Reno"), announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot also sentenced Hock to five years of probation.
