News from September 2013
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park Superintendent, Darlene M. Koontz, is pleased to announce that the park is beginning development of a Wilderness and Backcountry Stewardship Plan. “This plan will guide the management of Lassen Volcanic Wilderness and backcountry areas in order to preserve wilderness and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Five Mexican nationals were arrested last week by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service in connection with a large marijuana growing operation on public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Darnell Thomas, 43, of Philadelphia, Pa., was charged today by Indictment with 3 counts of bank robbery announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Thomas is charged with robbing Citizens Bank, 6324 Stenton Avenue, on Jan. 24, 2013; PNC Bank, 3244 North Broad Street, on April 20, 2013, and the same Citizens Bank, located at 6324 Stenton Avenue, on April 22, 2013. In each robbery, the indictment alleges, Thomas handed a note to the bank tellers demanding cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Sept. 19, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individual was arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces that KAHARI SMITH, age 28, of Syracuse, pled guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to an indictment which charged him and ten others with conspiring to exploit their membership in the V-NOT Gang to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Maurice Evans (44, Orlando) to 11 years and 8 months in federal prison and James Marvin Lovett (43, Cocoa) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine. Evans and Lovett pleaded guilty on June 24, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Jewel Cave National Monument and Wind Cave National Park will be offering free tours on Saturday, Sept. 28, as part of National Public Lands Day. Additionally, each area will also host volunteers for a special day of service and celebration.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Homestead/Key West: Superintendent Dan Kimball is inviting everyone who loves Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks to come enjoy free entrance on Saturday, Sept. 28, in celebration of National Public Lands Day. A volunteer project is also being held at Shark Valley, for anyone who would enjoy an opportunity to serve.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Brentwood, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 88 months imprisonment and five years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and to acquire controlled substances by fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: H.R. 3080: the Water Resources Reform & Development Act of 2013 #WRRDA has passed committee favorably. Read it here...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ENRIQUE LUCIANO, also known as “Pucho," 26, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to one count of escape from the custody of the Attorney General.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC--Deputy Director Cheryl Martin today announced that 33 breakthrough energy projects will receive approximately $66 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under two new programs that provide options for a more sustainable and secure American future.
By State Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s nomination hearing for Caroline Kennedy, Anne Patterson, and Gregory Starr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Kathleen Laws Garrett, 51, of Newport, Tenn., was sentenced on Sept. 19, 2013, to serve 51 months in prison, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge. Garrett pleaded guilty to a May 2013 federal indictment charging her and her son, Clayton Carroll Owenby, with threatening to retaliate against a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: RODDY VIZIER, 41, of Bourg, Louisiana, was sentenced today before U.S. District Court Jane Triche Milazzo to 66 months incarceration for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. Following the term in incarceration, VIZIER will be placed on ten years of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Sept. 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, ZACHARY LEE BLASEG, a 36-year-old resident of Livingston, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ANDREW MABERRY, who the FBI referred to as the I-55 Bandit, was charged with the July 2, 2013, robbery of the Commerce Bank in Jefferson County, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, former Army Research scientist DWIGHT WOOLARD of Raleigh, North Carolina plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States government, in violation of...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Everglades National Park’s Community Outreach Program is pleased to announce the launch of its travelling exhibits program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON, OHIO - Diane Elizabeth Niehaus, 40, of Beavercreek, Ohio pleaded guilty to one count each of embezzlement, money laundering, and filing a false income...
