News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 39-count indictment charging THOMAS J. CONNERTON, 64, and JEAN S. ERICKSON, 62, both of Stamford, with various offenses stemming from an investment scheme that defrauded individuals of more than $2 million.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office would like public feedback on a Plan of Operations for placer mining along Rochester Creek in Madison County, west of Twin Bridges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Defendant caused head-on collision on highway in Antioch.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Orlando Gutierrez (619) 546-6958.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: One of the goals of artificial lighting is to make things look natural. White light can make an otherwise appetizing sandwich look like garbage, if the reds and greens of the tomato and lettuce are washed out. On the other hand, a light containing too much red might make the tomato look lurid and unappetizing, like a plastic toy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Facilities in Shenandoah National Park will begin opening this month and will continue to open through the spring.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy today announced contracts have been awarded from the recent sale of Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) crude oil.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Thomas J. Richter, 30, from Troy, Illinois was charged on March 7, 2017 in federal court by a two-count criminal complaint alleging Distribution and Receipt of Child Pornography, United States Attorney Donald S. Boyce has announced. After a detention hearing held today, Richter was released on bond with electronic leg monitoring.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Washington - The Subcommittee on Highways and Transit will hold its first hearing of the 115th Congress next Wednesday. The Subcommittee will examine the implementation of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, with an emphasis on the perspectives of the states and local entities that...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mohan L. Nirala, 52, of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for willful retention of national defense information.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Finding of No Significant Impact for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program plan to recapture a portion of its Restoration Flows at Patterson Irrigation District (PID) and Banta-Carbona Irrigation District (BCID) in 2017. The FONSI is...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal jury today delivered its verdicts against four defendants charged with conspiracy, possession of firearms on federal property, and depredation of government property during the 41-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Francisco Jose Cantu, 31, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton to a 37-month term of imprisonment for assaulting another inmate with a dangerous weapon and possessing a homemade knife within that facility, announced Donald...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Ernest Vereen, Jr. (40, Tampa) to 24 years and 5 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as an Armed Career Criminal. He was found guilty on Nov. 1, 2016, after a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 39-count indictment charging THOMAS J. CONNERTON, 64, and JEAN S. ERICKSON, 62, both of Stamford, with various offenses stemming from an investment scheme that defrauded individuals of more than $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Eyad Salahedin, 40, of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a conspiracy to traffic in contraband cigarettes. Salahedin also was ordered to pay $5,622,021 in restitution and forfeit $9,611,319.11 in criminal proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: Pasco County, Florida, Man Pleads Guilty to 2012 Cross Burning.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Eugene Tillery, 30, of Suffolk, was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison for distribution of Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND - Ricky Keith Barnette was sentenced today to one hundred months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Danny Ray Murphy, 37, of Milton, made a first appearance today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy, receipt, and possession of child pornography. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
