News from October 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging Delamon A. Marshall, 38, of Akron, with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition as an armed career criminal and two counts of possessing of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Oct. 13, 2017 - Park officials have decided to postpone the Lost Grove Prescribed Burn, which was scheduled to begin on Sunday Oct. 15, and instead will complete a final segment on the Cedar East Prescribed Burn, which was begun in Cedar Grove in April 2017. Ignitions on this segment of the Cedar East Prescribed Burn are expected to begin on Tuesday, Oct. 17, if conditions are favorable.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy operating in the Atlantic County, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL S. WRIGHT pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to commodities fraud in connection with WRIGHT’s operation of an investment fund, Wright Time Capital Group (“WTCG").

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jason Twiss, 29, of Albany, New York, was sentenced today to serve 80 months in prison for illegally possessing a loaded semi-automatic rifle and a loaded 9-milimeter handgun as a convicted felon, carrying firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and attempted possession...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A St. Marys, West Virginia woman has admitted to a theft charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: He Admitted to Driving Mexican Citizen Who Entered the USA Illegally.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Detroit, Michigan man has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SCOTT TUCKER and TIMOTHY MUIR were convicted after a five-week jury trial on all fourteen counts against them, for operating a nationwide internet payday lending enterprise that systematically evaded state laws in order to charge illegal interest rates as high as 1000% on loans.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Arnoldo Mendoza Lepez, 45, of Littlefield, Texas, was sentenced this morning before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 405 months in federal prison following his guilty plea to his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former settlement agent from Wyckoff, New Jersey, was convicted at trial today on charges related to the refinancing of properties in Bergen and Morris Counties, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Briani Gomez, age 21, of New Jersey, pleaded guilty on Oct. 12, 2017, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Grimace Bandit. The FBI is releasing new video and information as we ask for the public’s help in identifying the Grimace Bandit. The Grimace Bandit is suspected of robbing three banks in nine days, the most recent bank robbery happening in Goodyear on Monday, October 9. The Grimace Bandit...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: STRONG CITY, Kansas: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is pleased to announce the upcoming annual Prairie Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore is seeking public input regarding a plan to relocate a water tank that is operated by the Ocracoke Sanitary District (OSD) on Ocracoke Island.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Tennessee Dentist Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion.

By DOL Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement on President Trump’s decision to unilaterally cut off the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy operating in the Atlantic County, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2017
News Release: Join us at William Howard Taft National Historic Site to celebrate our Halloween Open House event. The house where William Howard Taft was born and grew up will be decorated to reflect the mid-Victorian period during our annual Halloween Celebration.