News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on March 1, 2017, Ronnie Lee Helms, 32, Acworth, Georgia, pled guilty before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to an Indictment charging him with Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of a Controlled Substance and Controlled Substance Analogues Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Death.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: The contracting process for rehabilitation of 12 miles of the Lake Crescent section of Highway 101 and 4 miles of East Beach Road is still underway and this spring’s construction schedule has been adjusted. Construction is now slated to begin in late April this year. This project is being managed collaboratively by the the Federal Highway Administration and the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On February 7 Barry Moore, 40, of Greeneville, Tennessee was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 210 months in federal prison following a conviction for his leadership role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine base “crack" in the Eastern District of Tennessee. Upon his release from prison he will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that on Feb. 27, 2017, Lynn Terrance Breckenridge, II, age 26, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to one count of Kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(2) and one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A California man was sentenced today to 76 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to traffic approximately 12 kilograms of cocaine from California to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that People, Technology and Processes, LLC (“PTP"), Victor Buonamia, and Nicole Buonamia have paid the government $320,000 to resolve allegations that they submitted improper invoices for work allegedly performed for the United States in support of the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a three-year, multi-million-dollar fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: In Austin this morning, a 25-year-old baggage handler at Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) surrendered to FBI agents based on a federal criminal complaint charging him with theft from an interstate shipment and possession of stolen firearms announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Austin Police Chief Brian Manley.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: U.S. Secret Service Officer Pleads Guilty to Enticement of a Minor and Attempting to Send Obscene Images to a Minor.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Department of Labor’s delay of the conflicts of interest rule...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman and good morning everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A father and son were indicted today in connection with the armed robberies committed at two Henderson credit unions, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Brian K. Skeens, 49, and Toby Lee Thacker, 56, of Wellston, Ohio were sentenced in U.S. District Court for violating the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act by trafficking the human remains of Native Americans. The case is the first criminal enforcement of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in the Southern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that on Feb. 28, 2017, Christopher Barker, 23, of Epsom, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to the illegal possession of firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Ground-level ozone, also known as smog, has climbed in the rural West over the past 25 years, even in such seemingly pristine places as Yellowstone National Park. Now, scientists may have found out why offsite link - and why cutting our own output of smog-forming chemicals such as nitrogen oxide hasn’t helped.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Keith Seppi, age 58, of Conneaut, Ohio, pled guilty today to using a destructive device during and in relation to a crime of violence and possessing a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: WICHITA - A woman who continued to receive her grandmother’s Social Security payments after the grandmother died was sentenced Monday to 45 months in federal prison, U. S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, George Cotrel, 23, of London, United Kingdom, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to eight months’ imprisonment, with credit for time served dating back to his arrest on July 22, 2016. Judge Humetewa also imposed restitution in the amount of $30,000. Cotrel had previously pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of today’s first Water, Power and Oceans Subcommittee hearing on modernizing our nation’s water and power infrastructure for the 21st Century, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) pointed out that the Republican hearing memo fails to acknowledge climate change as a growing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin M. Sullivan has been sentenced to six years, six months in prison for downloading thousands of images of child pornography from a server in Switzerland. Sullivan, who was a professor in Emory University’s Epidemiology department, used the university’s Wi-Fi to access sites outside the country which provided access to child pornography.
