News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced that Booker T. Sanders, Jr, 25, of Michigan City, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment charting a Stark County man with firearms and narcotics violations, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Steven Craig Deason, Jr., age 40 of Gray, Georgia, was sentenced today to serve 144 months in Federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervision, for attempted online enticement of a minor and attempted transfer of obscene matter to a minor. Mr. Deason will also be required to register as a sex offender. U.S. District Court Judge Marc Thomas Treadwell handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: MAY 05 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that ario Lee, a/k/a “Moe", 42, of Bangor, and formerly of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Johnathon Deontre Smith, 25, of Dallas, is in federal custody on a sex trafficking of children charge outlined in an indictment filed earlier this week, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park invites the public to "City Farming: Food in the Backyard" on Saturday and Sunday, May 20-21, from 11 am to 4 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - KASHARA STEWART, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and her mother, WONICA STEWART POPE, also of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty today to federal crimes related to stolen identity tax refund fraud before the Honorable Joe Heaton, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent letters to the Acting Assistant Administrators and Acting Regional Administrators of 19 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offices to request a briefing from each on President Trump’s proposed cuts to the Agency. The request comes after...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas -Rodrigo Ramiro Menchaca, 27, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 148 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2017 to one count of stalking and one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Dwayne J. Lynch, 28, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was charged on May 4, 2017 by Indictment[1] with possession with the intent to distribute heroin, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Alicia Gardner, 43, of Dallas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 24 months in federal prison for aggravated identify theft, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation will host a meeting to present streamflow forecasts and projected reservoir operations for Jackson Lake Dam and other Snake River reservoirs on May 18. The meeting will be held at the Teton County Library, Ordway Auditorium, 125 Virginian Lane, Jackson, Wyoming, at 5:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Madisonville man has been taken into custody as a result of a joint effort in ensuring the safety of local communities, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: MCCOOK, Neb. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has announced changes in permit fees for private exclusive use cabin and mobile home areas as a result of recently completed market rent surveys. These surveys affect cabin and club lots at Cedar Bluff, Lovewell, and Webster Reservoirs in Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Al Torrell Beasley, a/k/a “Rody," 39, of Dallas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 110 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2015 to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Sean Donald Premock, 44, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, entered pleas of guilty to nine counts of mail fraud, nine counts of wire fraud, one count of securities fraud, and one count of investment adviser fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has finalized the transfer of administrative jurisdiction, from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Navy, of approximately 226,700 acres of public lands. The transfer fulfills requirements in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 to transfer the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range to the Department of Defense.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, May 13, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 45 minute program that will look at class conflict within the ranks of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. This program will begin at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center and will car caravan to Brock Field.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Omar Meares, 28, of Philadelphia was charged today by Indictment[1] with being a felon in possession of a firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment charges that Meares possessed a Colt, Police Positive MK V, 38 Special caliber revolver, bearing serial number RD1155, which was loaded with six (6) live rounds of.38 caliber ammunition, on Jan. 23, 2017, in Philadelphia, after having been convicted of a felony.
