News from December 2018
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - In support of the Department’s goal to promote energy independence and create jobs, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rock Springs Field Office released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Riley Ridge to Natrona Pipeline Project today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is happy to announce the winner and runner-up of the kids’ artwork contest. The contest was open from August through October for anyone 12 years of age or younger. This year, a total of 77 entries were received from young artists living in many...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Colorado Springs, Colorado, men were charged in federal district court with Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and Willimantic Police Chief Roberto Rosado today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging MOHAMMADREZA KAMALI, also known as “Reza," 18, of Willimantic, with several firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA-A Columbia Falls man accused of stealing government benefits by overstating his disabilities admitted fraud and theft charges in federal court on Dec. 12, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Robert Gary Toltzis was sentenced to 18 months in prison for mailing hateful threats to victims because of their sexual orientation, race, and religion, announced U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Edward J. Davila, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jake Alexander Cruse, age 32, of Schaghticoke, New York, was arrested on December 12 on charges of transporting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Marc Howard Berger was sentenced today to eight months in prison for aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that Saed Rabah, a former New York City Police Department detective, pled guilty to knowingly providing misinformation to a federal law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Carlos Silva-Ponce, 42, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann on his plea of guilty to the charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Amanze Antoine, of Mt. Vernon, New York, was found guilty this week of three counts involving illegal firearms sales and cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Darren Clay Robinson, aka “Mountain," age 54, of Teaneck, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 135 months in prison, to be followed by 8 years of supervised release, for conspiring with more than 10 people to distribute heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine throughout the Capital Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS-Browning resident Denise L. Sharp, 60, who worked for the Blackfeet Tribe’s Head Start Program, admitted in federal court on Tuesday to stealing money through an overall scheme involving others in which an estimated $232,000 was fraudulently claimed as overtime pay, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A citizen of Mexico admitted on Dec. 11 in federal court to being in the United States illegally after Glacier National Park personnel found him walking while on patrol, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Sally Berry, age 62, of Steelton, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information on Dec. 13, 2018, with wire fraud for defrauding a 78 year-old man out of $86,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The National Park Service (NPS) is working with local communities to relocate the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) headquarters from Hagerstown to Williamsport, Md.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kelby Gordon, 32, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 37 years in prison for killing an innocent bystander and firing into an occupied bedroom during a broad-daylight shooting in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Used His 17-Year-Old Brother in Drug-Selling Operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Faveur Cassamajor, age 45, and a citizen of Haiti, was sentenced yesterday to time served (56 days in jail), and a 2-year term of post-release supervision, for illegal re-entry into the United States.
