News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Randy Never Misses A Shot, age 49, of Parmelee, South Dakota, was convicted following a three-day jury trial of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child, and one count of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child While Required to Register as a Sex Offender in Pierre, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Sharon Edwards Kitine, the former owner of a now defunct Presidential Tax Service in Houston, has been sentenced to federal prison for falsifying client returns, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Kitine pleaded guilty April 29, 2012, and the tax service establishment she owned closed in March 2012 following her arrest.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Entrance fees to Glacier National Park will be waived on Saturday, September 28 in recognition of National Public Lands Day. Visitors are encouraged to visit the park and experience changing foliage and increased opportunities for solitude during the fall season.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A citizen of the United Kingdom, and most recently of Worcester, was sentenced Sept. 17 to more than 26 years followed by a lifetime term of supervised release for solicitation to commit a crime of violence - kidnapping of a child - and distribution and possession of child pornography. The sentencing is the result of an extensive worldwide investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Lisa Shepperd Zavogiannis, District Attorney General, 31st Judicial District, was sworn in as a Special U. S. Attorney (SAUSA) for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Tennessee. The ceremony was held on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga by the Honorable William B. Mitchell Carter, U.S. Magistrate Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jose Maria Corredor-Ibague, aka “Boyaco," a high-level drug trafficker and supporter of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), has been sentenced in Washington, D.C., to serve 194 months in prison. Corredor-Ibague was the first person in the nation to be indicted under the federal narco-terrorism statute, which became law in March 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: Michael Lashawn Johnson admits distributing nearly 2 kilos of crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Gunnison Field Office plans to prepare a Plan Amendment and associated Environmental Assessment to consider updates to the Hartman Rocks Recreation Area Management Plan (2006).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: Redwood National and State Parks will conduct a series of prescribed burns this fall in the prairies, oak woodlands and conifer forest of the Bald Hills east of Orick. The prescribed fire season in the parks begins in late September or early October as weather conditions permit.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Del Monte Farms LLC (not Affiliated with Del Monte Corporation or Del Monte Foods) of Vineland, N.J., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Tammy L. Schuck pled guilty today to three counts of a Superseding Indictment: conspiracy to promote a prostitution enterprise and to induce interstate travel to engage in prostitution; inducing or attempting to induce interstate travel to engage in prostitution; and a conspiracy to launder money. She also admitted a forfeiture allegation.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today, as part of the ongoing investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attacks, released an interim report focused on the conclusions of the State Department Accountability Review Board (ARB). The ARB had placed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - On Sept. 16, 2013, the United States Attorney’s Office hosted nearly 500 law enforcement and community professionals from around New England at its Annual Gang Prevention Summit in Marlborough. This year’s summit, sponsored by the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program, focused on coalescing best practices that can be utilized throughout Massachusetts.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have improved the method for estimating calories in tree nuts, showing that there are fewer calories in pistachios and almonds than previously thought. The modified method should also work well for other foods, according to the scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the return of a five-count superseding indictment by a federal grand jury in Williamsport charging Corbin Will, age 40, of Garrett, Pennsylvania, with robbing and conspiring to rob the First National Bank in Loganton, Pennsylvania, an M&T Bank branch in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, and the 1ST Summit Bank in Salix, Pennsylvania using a dangerous weapon.
By State Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the United Nations report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2013
News Release: The Intermountain Region's All Hazard Incident Management Team arrived on 9/14 to assist the staff of Rocky Mountain National Park with the ongoing flooding. Incident Commander Mark Foust said, "The staff at Rocky Mountain has done an outstanding job of dealing with this crisis. The incident management team is here to help them coordinate incident resources and provide the support needed to meet critical objectives".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that the Grand Jury has returned an Indictment charging Tracy Holliman, of South Burlington, with four counts of engaging in sexual acts with women who were held in federal custody at the Chittenden Regional Correctional...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2013
News Release: Flood waters from heavy rainshowers received within the past few days along the Gila River within the Gila National Forest has required the temporary closing of Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument and the Gila Visitor Center.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2013
News Release: Tioga Road opens to through traffic at Noon on Saturday, September 14.
