News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office will not seek federal charges in the death of Henny Scott, a 14-year-old Lame Deer girl whose body was found on Dec. 28, 2018 on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. After a thorough investigation by the FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs, the office has determined it cannot prove any federal crime was committed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - A Pine Bluff man pleaded guilty today to mailing white powder to United States Senator Tom Cotton’s office. Henry Goodloe, 77, entered his guilty plea earlier today before United States District Judge Kristine G. Baker.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Amir Jahed, a/k/a Amir Jahedmotlagh, 39, of Montgomery Villaga, Maryland, with 12 counts of mail fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: MOOSE, WY - The National Park Service has signed a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Telecommunications Infrastructure Plan/Environmental Assessment at Grand Teton National Park. The decision allows the National Park Service to issue a right-of-way permit for telecommunications infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Greensboro man who pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography was sentenced on Aug. 21, 2019, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - The National Park Service in coordination with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has concluded aerial surveying for native Bighorn Sheep and removal operations targeting non-native Aoudad (Barbary sheep) in the Dead Horse Mountains and Boquillas Canyon areas of Big Bend National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man agreed to plead guilty today to sending a series of violent and threatening e‑mails to a Massachusetts professor and to a professional school at the university where the professor teaches.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Brandon Terelle Ewing, age 35, of St. Louis, was sentenced yesterday, to 40 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for an assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Judge Caldwell also ordered Ewing to pay $12,599.48 in restitution to the victim’s family.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The ex-wife of an MCI-Cedar Junction inmate was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) has completely resurfaced Wise Road in Northwest Washington in time for the start of the school year. On Friday, Aug. 23, Wise Road NW, which connects Oregon Avenue NW and Beach Drive, will reopen before the afternoon rush hour.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Ivan Victor Thrane, age 65, of Dickerson, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud a company of more than $1.7 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a detailing how the evidence before the Committees to date shows that the Department of the Interior's recordkeeping practices are in full compliance with federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today in federal court in Boston for the armed robbery of a grocery store in Boston’s North End.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Huntsville - A federal judge today, sentenced a Huntsville man for tampering with vehicle odometers and bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and U.S. Secret Service Acting Special Agent in Charge Robert Holloway.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An East Orange, New Jersey, man appeared in court today on charges of distribution of phencyclidine and marijuana, possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug distribution crime, and the use of a minor to distribute drugs, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Lois Soito, 60, of Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, was indicted Aug. 14, 2019, by a federal grand jury on ten counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. The indictment stems from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Boise Police Department. The investigation was prompted by information uncovered by the Saint Alphonsus Health System.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Brandon Terelle Ewing, age 35, of St. Louis, was sentenced yesterday, to 40 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for an assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Judge Caldwell also ordered Ewing to pay $12,599.48 in restitution to the victim’s family.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Lois Soito, 60, of Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, was indicted Aug. 14, 2019, by a federal grand jury on ten counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. The indictment stems from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Boise Police Department. The investigation was prompted by information uncovered by the Saint Alphonsus Health System.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, released a staff report detailing how the evidence before the Committees to date shows that the Department of Interior’s recordkeeping practices are in full compliance with federal law.
