News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WELLFLEET, MA - The national seashore is embarking on a major bicycle improvement project in Truro to implement a portion of the Outer Cape Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan (Master Plan) of 2017; the plan was completed by Cape Cod Commission with the national seashore and the towns of Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will meet TOMORROW, Thursday, September 27 at 10 a.m. to consider...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HELAR CAMPOS, MD, a physician with a practice in New London and Norwich, has entered into a civil settlement with the government in which he will pay $99,912 to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Health Management Associates, LLC (HMA), formerly a U.S. hospital chain headquartered in Naples, Florida, will pay over $260 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims relating to a scheme to defraud the United States. The government alleged that HMA knowingly billed government...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury indictment unsealed in Austin charges Austin residents Joel Calvin and Clarence Barefield along with seven other individuals for their roles in an estimated $250 million intended-loss fraudulent “sweepstakes" scheme and an estimated $25 million intended-loss income tax refund scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On Sept. 22, 2018, James Jeffrey Hinkeldey, 66, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 30 years and five months in federal prison. Earlier this year, a federal jury convicted Hinkeldey of conspiracy, wire and mail fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft charges stemming from his role as one of the leaders in an $18 million investment fraud affecting 225 victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Two people from Warren were named in a nine-count federal indictment for their roles in the straw purchase of firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 84 National Park Service employees from 34 parks and 18 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 63-year-old Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization National President Jeffrey Faye Pike of Conroe, TX, to life, plus ten years, in federal prison for racketeering and drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Darnell A. Reeves, 32, of Delaware, Ohio, in a nine-count indictment returned here today. Reeves is charged with drug charges related to the distribution of crack cocaine, fentanyl and heroin that resulted in four overdoses, three of them fatal.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger today sentenced Ronald Andrews (34, Jacksonville) to 14 years in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Andrews pleaded guilty on May 10, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Shyniquah Lightner, 26, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to two counts of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI -One man was detained and two are scheduled to appear in District Court on Sept. 27, 2018 for detention hearings after they were arrested and charged in connection with a home invasion and carjacking on St. Croix, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Luis Davis, 30, Chriss Cepeda, 22, and Joel Rivera, 33, all of St. Croix, were arraigned in the District Court on St. Croix on Sept. 24, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Katmai National Park & Preserve, King Salmon, AK - On Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018 at approximately 5:57 p.m., Katmai National Park Rangers were notified of an emergency locator transmitter activation at the mouth of Moraine Creek at Kukaklek Lake in the Preserve. Coast Guard and the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center were also notified and began coordinating a response.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: * On Sept. 22, 2018, rangers began investigating a report that a man had fired a shotgun at some wolves that were chasing his dog east of Sedge Bay along the East Entrance Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Henry L. Adams has sentenced James Ray Crooms (49, St. Augustine) to eight years in federal prison for selling cocaine base, also known as “crack" cocaine. Crooms was also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, to run concurrent with his eight-year sentence, for violating his federal supervision by selling the crack. He had pleaded guilty on March 22, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Pinnacles National Park Receives Field Trip Grant from the National Park Foundation.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: VERNAL, Utah -The BLM has issued a Record of Decision (ROD) on Enefit American Oil’s seven right-of-way applications following consideration of both draft and final environment impact statements. The BLM assessed comments and feedback received from the public during the 60-day comment period prior to issuing the ROD.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Jason Peter Kendall (36, Seminole) has pleaded guilty to one count each of bank fraud, securities counterfeiting, aggravated identity theft, and attempted bank robbery. Kendall faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for the bank fraud, up to 20 years for the attempted bank robbery, up to 10 years for the counterfeiting, and a mandatory consecutive term of two years for the aggravated identity theft. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Sentence concludes investigation and prosecution of nine-member methamphetamine distribution ring operating in Kalamazoo and Van Buren Counties.
