News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways will offer a “Fish with a Ranger" clinic on Sunday, July 30, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the river access adjacent to the Alley Spring Campground. The clinic will be conducted while floating and will conclude at the Joshua T. Chilton Memorial Boat Landing in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury in Seattle returned a five count indictment yesterday charging 23-year-old JOSEPH DANIEL HUDEK, IV for the July 6, 2017, incident aboard a Delta Airlines flight to Beijing, China, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. HUDEK remains detained at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac, and will be arraigned on Thursday, July 27, 2017, at 9:00 AM.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Goochland County, Va., resident was arrested at Richmond International Airport on Wednesday, July 19, after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers found a loaded semi-automatic handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Texas man and an Indian national have each pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges this week for their respective roles in liquidating and laundering victim payments generated through a massive telephone impersonation fraud and money laundering scheme perpetrated by India-based call centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch today applauded the passage and enactment of legislation in Rhode Island that will permit a limited number of qualified federal law enforcement agencies and the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Unit to receive information through the Rhode Island Department of Health from the Department of Health’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Vicksburg, MS: One of the most important historical houses in downtown Vicksburg is getting some much needed repairs. Historic preservation efforts are currently underway at Pemberton’s Headquarters to prevent further deterioration of the historic building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Gregory Gibbons, 51, of Pleasantville, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) discussed the importance of shifting from a worldwide to territorial tax system. The shift would modernize our tax system and help make American companies more competitive in the vast global marketplace, incentivize American companies to bring overseas earnings back to invest in their domestic operations, and eliminate incentives to keep money abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced James P. Smith, an independent insurance agent, to 63 months in federal prison for defrauding his clients from February 2011 to July 2016. Smith, 61, of the 5400 block of Traughber Road, Decatur, Ill., was also ordered to pay $349,777...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SCOTT TAYLOR, 47, formerly of Shelton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 188 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing four branches of Chase Bank last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On June 19, 2017, Nicole Lynn Sanders, age 33, formerly of South Carolina, appeared before United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose and was sentenced to five years probation for failure to pay child support, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Sanders was...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, August 5, at 2pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a 90 minute car caravan tour of Chickamauga Battlefield focusing on resistance during Reconstruction.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PRICE, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management Price Field Office and Arizona State University Center for Sustainable Tourism are teaming up to offer an exciting, family-friendly, hands-on volunteer activity to help with an archaeological excavation at an important pre-historic site in Nine Mile Canyon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANA GUITY, 30, of West Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of theft of mail matter by a U.S. postal employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced former Jefferson County Schools’ human resources director and Hueytown Middle School principal to more than 30 years in prison for enticing a minor to engage in prostitution and possessing child pornography. Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David W. Archey, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven D. Anderson and Hueytown Police Chief Chuck Hagler announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that REYNALDO BRAN FONSECA, age 36, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a three-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien and possession of firearms by an illegal alien.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - To understand America, one needs to go no further than the closest national park. National parks commemorate the people, places, and events that have shaped the American experience. These national treasures serve as tangible reminders of what it means to be made in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida- Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Wayne St. Aubyn Smith (50, Parrish), a/k/a Wayne Smith El-Bey, guilty of attempting to file a false lien against a federal judge. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Brecksville, Ohio -. Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) is saddened to acknowledge the death of former U.S. Congressman, Ralph S. Regula, at the age of 92. Mr. Regula stands as one of the “founding fathers" of CVNP. Regula’s connection to the land began with his experiences growing up on a farm in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dwayne Brice, 37, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of theft of government money, was sentenced to three years probation, 100 hours of community service at Veterans Affairs, and ordered to pay full restitution by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
