News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, May 27, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 45 minute talk at the 9th Kentucky (US) marker on Chickamauga Battlefield. Participants will have an opportunity to learn about Southerners who fought in the United States Army of the Cumberland. Although this program will be on the battlefield, please meet at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center in order to caravan to the program site.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A North Carolina man, who owned a tax preparation business in Rockingham, North Carolina, was sentenced to serve 11 years in prison today for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and assisting in the preparation of fraudulent tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial is inviting the public to weigh in on the future management of the landscape at an open house on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 from 3:00 to 5:00pm in the park’s Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: On May 2, 2017, four southern Illinois residents were charged with a methamphetamine offense, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAMIAN DELGADO, also known as “Michael Neumann," 44, of Orlando, Florida, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to conspiracy and tax offenses stemming from his role in a securities fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: MAY 12 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Collin Fletcher, 52, last residing in Bridgeport, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 20 months of imprisonment for distributing ecstasy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE -United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court before United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank, BORENZO CORTEZ PATRICK pled guilty to Armed Bank Robbery and to Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force Seeking Public Assistance to Identify Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: A Lima man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for receiving and distributing material involving the sexual exploitation of children, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. (May 12, 2017)-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein raising “grave ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced the issuance of memorandum from Attorney General Jeff Sessions to all federal prosecutors, establishing new policies for charging criminal offenses and seeking sentences when convictions are obtained. The memorandum explicitly rescinds prior memoranda of the ...
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Potomac, Md - In 1862, the country was in the middle of the Civil War with a hostile border along the Potomac River. This weekend, May 13th and 14th, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) invites the public to explore this war story with the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry at Great Falls Tavern in Potomac, Md.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On May 12, 2017, United States District Court Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced John Martin Roos, 62, of Medford, to 63 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered explosive device and posting Internet threats to kill then-President of the United States Barack Obama and FBI agents. After his release from prison, Roos will be on supervised release for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Faces 10 Years in Prison for Duping Numerous Women into Rehearsing for Fake Pornography Movies.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park’s Hidden Canyon Trail will be closed on June 5, 2017 for trail maintenance.
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited ABL Farms Inc., operating out of Atlanta, Ga., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of WILLIAM JAMES DAVIS, 66, for stealing more than $380,000 from Community Action of Minneapolis. DAVIS, who pleaded guilty on June 16, 2016, to all 16 counts of the indictment, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney and Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas, announced the filing of an indictment against two U.S. citizens and four Chinese nationals on charges arising out of an alleged scheme to obtain immigration status for foreign nationals through fraudulent marriages.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a single-count indictment today against Rosario Beltran-Leal (Beltran), 43, a Mexican citizen residing in Delano, charging him with conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute and manufacturing marijuana in the federally designated Giant Sequoia National Monument in Tulare County in the Sequoia National Forest, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of a five-count charging Mark Charles Barnett (49, Ocala) with attempted arson, possession of a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence, possession of a destructive device by a convicted felon, and two counts of unlawful possession/manufacturing of a National Firearms Act weapon. If convicted on all counts, Barnett faces up to life in federal prison.
