News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A deputy public defender for Riverside County pleaded guilty today to two felony counts of stealing social security benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - Mario Cesar Torres, age 57, of Waipahu, was sentenced today by United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright to 188 months imprisonment for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine as well as three additional counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. A federal jury found Torres guilty of the four drug offenses in February 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: Report shows visitor spending supports 2,818 jobs in local economy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2012 shows that the 1,483,928 visitors to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park spent $113,376,400 in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,353 jobs in the local area.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: San Antonio, Texas - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 614,810 visitors to San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in 2012 spent over $33 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 480 jobs in the local area.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,094,668 visitors to Haleakalā National Park in 2012 spent over $64 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 736 jobs in the local area.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement on the potential for U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to weaken Russian influence. The committee has been actively engaged on the benefits of LNG exports. In October of 2013, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: SANDY SPRINGS, KENNESAW, AND ATLANTA, GA: The three National Park Service (NPS) units in the Atlanta metropolitan area tell the stories of the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement and protect more than half of the area's public green space. And according to a new NPS report, the 5.8 million visitors...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: COCHISE COUNTY, AZ - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 146,704 visitors to the three parks in Cochise County spent $8,001,500 in communities near the parks in 2012. That spending supported 107 jobs in the local area. The NPS sites in Cochise County are managed as the "Southeast Arizona Group" and include Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, and Fort Bowie National Historic Site.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that almost 250,000 visitors to the Obed Wild and Scenic River in 2012 spent three and half million dollars in communities near the park. That spending supported 40 jobs in the local area, in addition to the jobs held by the park employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, 35-year-old Hipolito Amaya, owner of AM-ROD Construction based in Eagle Pass, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for his role in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme in Maverick County announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - A new National Park Service report shows that 495,613 visitors to Biscayne National Park in 2012 spent $29 million in surrounding communities. That spending supported 376 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - A criminal complaint charging Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 44, of Moores Hill, Indiana with possession of unregistered destructive devices has been filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus. The complaint alleges that Boguslawski illegally possessed 13 destructive devices when he was stopped by an Ohio State trooper on Jan. 1, 2014 on Interstate 70 in Madison County, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Los Angeles, California, man convicted of Transportation for Prostitution was sentenced on March 3, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Abusive Sexual Contact.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: Tourism to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Creates $23.7 million in Economic Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Tally, 52, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of fraud and making counterfeit money, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and ordered to pay over $35,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: Mineral, CA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 407,653 visitors to Lassen Volcanic National Park spent over $22.9 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 297 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A California resident has been sentenced in federal court to 240 months imprisonment followed by 10 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics and money laundering laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that the 650,000 visitors to national park lands in the Santa Monica Mountains spent $26 million in the surrounding community in 2012. That spending supported 336 jobs in the local area.
