News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: Yosemite National Park remains open with all hotels, lodges, stores and campgrounds that have opened for the season are fully open and operational. All entrances to Yosemite National Park are open. Visitors can get to Yosemite Valley via Highway 140 from Mariposa, Highway 41 from Fresno, Highway 120 West from Groveland, and Highway 120 East from Lee Vining and US Route 395.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with four counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 30-year old member of the Texas Mexican Mafia has been ordered to prison for his involvement in a major poly-drug conspiracy, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Mario Alberto Rodriguez, of Laredo, pleaded guilty in June 2014 and is the last to be sentenced as part of a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport has returned an indictment charging TYESHON KING, 30, of Bridgeport, with one count of possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for two hours on Tuesday, July 20 and for less than one hour on Friday, July 21, a federal jury of seven men and five women found Andrew M. Jones guilty of one count of a federal firearms violation, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered Wells Fargo to reinstate and pay $577,500 in back wages, damages and other fees to a former branch manager in Pomona who was terminated after she reported conduct by at least three “private bankers" working under her that she reasonably believed to be bank, wire and mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: Alleged ISIS Supporter Indicted for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Jason Edgecombe, 40, and Cy Viator, 34, both of Houston, Texas, were sentenced this morning for their involvement in a “pill mill" operation, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the DEA and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Christopher Hayes, 49, of Middletown, R.I., a former Newport, R.I., Police Department Sergeant and President of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Newport Lodge No. 8, was sentenced today to a total sentence of 12 months, 6 months imprisonment followed by 6 months of home confinement, for using FOP funds for personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Jaiden Paige, 37, of Rutland, was sentenced Tuesday in United States District Court in Burlington to 139 months of imprisonment following his guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin, possession with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Florida man who over seven years embezzled almost $2.5 million from a small business fencing company was sentenced today to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $2.5 million in restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Justin Martin Jackson, 29, of Darlington, South Carolina, was sentenced this week in Florence to 168 months imprisonment followed by a five-year term of supervised release. On March 8, 2017, Jackson entered a guilty plea...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Mexican national was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On July 20, 2017, Devonte Darnell Holston, 22, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 180 months in prison for a Felon in Possession of a Firearm charge, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Holston was ordered to serve a five-year term of supervised release following his imprisonment and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: Washington - Next Tuesday the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation will hold the second of two hearings examining the status of Coast Guard infrastructure and the ability of the infrastructure to meet the Service’s mission needs in the 21st century. At the hearing, the Subcommittee...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: PUT-IN-BAY (OH) - Baby Boomers are lining up at Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial’s Visitor Center to purchase a lifetime Senior Pass before August 28 when the pass increases from $10 to $80. The Lifetime Senior Pass has been $10 since the fee was enacted in 1994. Congress created a free annual pass for those 62 and older in 1972. In 1974 they converted it to a free lifetime pass.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County resident convicted at trial in February on charges of mail fraud and forging a Federal Judicial Order has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months in prison, followed by a term of three years of supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Venezuela pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to time served for conspiring to defraud the United States, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2017
News Release: Two Broward County residents have been charged federally with being felons in possession of firearms.
