News from July 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Port Alsworth, Alaska - The State of Alaska Division of Forestry conducted an overflight of the Currant Creek Fire July 14 in the evening and reported that the west side of the fire was active and burning toward Lake Clark. Some isolated fire activity was also observed moving toward Currant Creek. The...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Today at 2:45 p.m. EST, House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) will join Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Republicans to tour Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. and hold a roundtable discussion with parents and D.C. charter school leaders ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Richard Dixon, 35, of Toronto, Ontario, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to import Ecstasy pills containing 3,4-Methylenedioxypyrovalerone, commonly referred to as “Bath Salts," and N-Benzylpiperazine [BZP] into the United States from Canada. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area announces a 45-minute, ranger-led interpretive program about Big South Fork's largest mammal: American Black Bear. Please come and enjoy an evening outdoors with Ranger Debby Zimmerman at the campfire circle to learn more about a myriad of bear-related...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Michael Brian Clair, 33, formerly of Hazelton, Idaho and Parker, Arizona, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Boise to sexual exploitation of children by production of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. Immigration and Customs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Leticia Gonzalez, 40, of Providence, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence on Friday to embezzling more than $230,000 from stolen federal tax checks she deposited into a business account she manages at a Providence barber shop, announced United States Attorney Peter F.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Last week in federal court in Bemidji, a 25-year-old Red Lake woman made her initial appearance in connection with the murder of Byron James Lussier. On July 11, 2013, Alison Ann Brown was charged via a criminal complaint with one count of murder, following her arrest. She remains in custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man has pleaded guilty to using stolen identities to file false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: A family law attorney who previously practiced in Kent, Washington, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to production of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. DAVID SCOTT ENGLE, 49, of Maple Valley...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: TALKEETNA, Alaska: Denali National Park and Preserve, in partnership with the Upper Susitna Soil and Water Conservation District, will hold a Historic Archaeological Field School in Talkeetna the week of July 15th. The participants, all local high school students, will obtain hands-on experience with archaeological excavation and documentation at site TAL-157, which dates to the early 1920s. It is located next to the Talkeetna Ranger Station.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -A report released today by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.) and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: SITKA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK - Sitka National Historical Park offers daily guided programs revealing the park’s diverse natural and cultural resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - José Gustavo Diaz-Velasquez, 30, a Mexican national who resided in the Rio Grande Valley, has been ordered to prison for alien smuggling and unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Diaz-Velasquez entered a guilty plea on July 27, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: A man who possessed a pipe bomb during an attempted theft was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on July 15, 2013, Jerome Louis Blackbird, Jr., of Tokio, N.D., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to a charge of abusive sexual contact.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: A program about mysterious legends and stories of the Cumberland Plateau will take place at 7:00 p.m. (EDT) on Saturday, July 20, at the Bandy Creek campfire circle at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Visitors will learn how stories get started and hear legends that take place on or near the land that became the Big South Fork. Participants will also have the opportunity to tell a favorite story.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Connellsville, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months imprisonment followed by eight years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy and violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: A man who withheld federal taxes from his employees’ paychecks but did not forward the money to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS") pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH P. COLLINS, formerly the principal outside attorney for the now defunct financial services company, Refco Group Inc. (“Refco"), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to one year and one day...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- Ronald L. Williams, D.D.S., who practices in Norman, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay $40,000 to the United States to settle allegations that he issued prescriptions to individuals for controlled substances that were not for a legitimate medical purpose and not in the ordinary course of professional practice, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
