News from April 2015
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Grab your flashlight and experience a lighthouse at night by joining the National Park Service on a Full Moon Climb at the Cape Hatteras or Bodie Island Lighthouse on Sunday, May 3, 2015.Hear stories of keepers of old, view the working light close up in the lantern room, and catch the reflection off the Atlantic Ocean of the newly-risen full moon as you stand on the lighthouse balcony.Tours will be given at each lighthouse at 8:00 p.m. &9:00 p.m.Tickets are required.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that James R. Metts, age 68, was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Harbor Illegal Aliens, a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(v)(I). Chief United States District Judge Terry L. Wooten sentenced Metts to 12 months and one day in prison, 2 years of supervised release, and a $10,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: A mystery has raged for decades surrounding accounts of firefighters who receive steam burns through their protective clothing. One ruling theory is that the heat of the flames raises firefighters' own perspiration to the scalding point. A series of exploratory experiments being conducted at NIST are investigating a second potential culprit: water vapor that quickly penetrates their protective suits and then condenses on their skin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John A. Steele has sentenced David E. Judd (35, Ft. Myers) to 72 months in federal prison for distributing and possessing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to serve a life term of supervision as a sexual offender. Judd pleaded guilty on Jan. 26, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that this afternoon, a jury returned guilty verdicts against three defendants for their participation in a conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud as part of a fraudulent tax credit scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - David William Welbig, 66, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to two years in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his aggravated identity theft conviction. The conviction arose out of his efforts to evade arrest on interstate transportation of stolen securities charges filed in April 1991 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 769,837 visitors to North Cascades National Park Service Complex, which includes Lake Chelan NRA, North Cascades National Park, and Ross Lake NRA, in 2014, spent $33,534,400 in communities near the parks. That spending supported 416 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $40,582,400.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ronald Lee Goss, age 40, Harrisburg, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III in Harrisburg to 156 months imprisonment for distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Received in excess of $2.6 million in fraudulent income tax refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management White River Field Office will hold a public workshop on May 6, 2015, to discuss the public review period for its 2014 Travel Route Inventory and future travel management efforts.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: As microchip feature dimensions approach atomic scale, it becomes formidably difficult to measure their size and shape. According to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, within the next couple of years the typical length of a transistor's "gate" - its on-off switch - will be less than 20 nanometers (nm, billionths of a meter).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: MINERAL, CA -Spring has come early to Lassen Volcanic National Park this year. Due to the lower than normal snowpack, plowing operations were successful in clearing the Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway in near record time. "Spring presents the perfect opportunity to open Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway to bicyclists and walkers before the highway opens to vehicles for the season," stated Superintendent Steve Gibbons.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Organization Maintained Dangerous Lab for Converting Liquid Meth to Crystal.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - The father and two sons who led a Pierce County based drug trafficking ring that distributed methamphetamine and heroin were sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to long prison terms. Luis Hernandez, 60, of Tacoma was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His two sons, Juan Hernandez, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID RILEY, former Chief Information Officer of Foundry Networks, Inc. (“Foundry"), a California-based technology company that was acquired by Brocade Communications, Inc. (“Brocade"), in 2008, was sentenced...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: In support of the President’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, today at the National Hydropower Association Annual Conference, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Danielson announced the release of the 2014 Hydropower Market Report, the first ever report to quantify...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to 87 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $42,829 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for unauthorized possession of stolen identities and participating in a tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. -The woman at the center of a hoax kidnapping from a Champaign, Ill., mall in June 2014, and her alleged kidnapper, were sentenced today, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. Monica Adriana Zacatlan Ramirez, 20, of Urbana, was ordered to serve 18 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gary Govindass, 36, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution, Gilmer, was convicted and sentenced today for assaulting a fellow prisoner, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Opening dates for seasonally operated facilities and roads in Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway are as follows.
