News from May 2017
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - With the announcement of a legal settlement between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Northern Dynasty Minerals - the company proposing to build the environmentally destructive Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region - that could remove EPA’s proposed protections for...
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko District, Wells Field Office is temporarily halting the emergency wild horse gather that started May 8 in order to evaluate whether or not to continue.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Anthony Allen Jean, age 45, of Bella Vista, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release on one count each of Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant Filed False Tax Returns, Concealed Income, and Committed Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Melissa Strohman, age 54, of Nottingham, Maryland today to three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for six-year scheme to steal over $1.8 million from bank customers at the bank where she worked as the Senior Vice President and Bank Secrecy Act Officer. Judge Bennett also ordered Strohman to pay restitution in the amount of $1,611,108.73.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Detroit, MI - The collaboration of local, state, and federal law enforcement under the Detroit One program has led to the indictment of five members of a northwest Detroit street gang, Young and Skantless or YNS, on various racketeering offenses in a federal superseding indictment unsealed today. The charges are the result of the Detroit One initiative, a collaborative effort between law enforcement and the community to reduce violent crime in Detroit.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Marvin Naylor, 46, from Daleville, Mississippi, was sentenced on May 11, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain announced today. Naylor was also ordered to pay a $1500.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man will serve more than 23 years in prison for his role in two carjackings, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Hamza L. Nijmeh, 32, of O’Fallon, IL, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge David R. Herndon to 12 years imprisonment for one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of receipt...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, DAVID EARL GILL, JR., 26, of Louisburg, North Carolina, pled guilty to carjacking and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and possessing and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Additionally GILL plead guilty to possession of a stolen firearm in the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tyrone Edward Wright, 47, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 64 months in prison for committing three bank robberies during a 24-hour period, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant Sexually Abused Girl in the District and in Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Cruz Perez, a/k/a “Travieso," 41, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 327 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOPPA JACKSON (“JACKSON"), age 35, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of powder cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that John Shelley, 34, of Highland, Utah was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a memo detailing the results of a survey of Inspectors General (IGs) at two dozen agencies conducted by Democratic Committee staff.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: “Summer is around the corner and we’re excited to welcome visitors to the park and invite everyone to join our free ranger-guided programs," says Chief of Interpretation Lori Rome. The Capitol Reef National Park Visitor Center will be open 8:00 am to 6:00 pm daily starting Sunday May 21, 2017. Enjoy the exhibits, park movie and the Capitol Reef Natural History Association bookstore.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: A woman who devised a scheme to defraud and obtain money through the United States Mail under false pretenses and filed a fraudulent tax return was sentenced May 11, 2017, to more than four years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the CEO of Vision Property Management demanding the company produce documents relating to its abusive business model of purchasing foreclosed properties at bargain-basement...
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore. -- The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center is planning two days of special programs featuring historic re-enactors and demonstrations of frontier life during Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday and Sunday May 27th and 28th.
