News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that James William Lewis, a/k/a “Jessie," a/k/a “Phoenix," age 32, of Kings Mountain, North Carolina pled guilty today in federal court. Lewis plead guilty to a 2nd/subsequent offense of use/possession/discharge of a firearm...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service turns 99 years old on August 25. To celebrate, Haleakalā NP will waive park entrance fees for the day and kick off the park's annual Nēnē Awareness Day contest for middle schoolers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announces that on Aug. 19, 2015, a federal grand jury in Raleigh returned a four count Indictment against two former Correctional Officers that worked at Polk Correctional Institution (“Polk") in Butner, North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The former pastor of a Louisville, Kentucky parish was charged by criminal complaint with knowingly accessing material with intent to view images of child pornography during 2015, on two computers located in the office and rectory of St. Margaret Mary Parish, located at 7813 Shelbyville, Road in Louisville, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that KERENSA KAELENE MARA, age 38, JAMES WESTLEY RADFORD, age 28, MARQUIS WAYNE BRANDT a/k/a Mark Brandt, age 40, all of Eufaula, Oklahoma and REBEL LYNN CRABTREE, age 47, of Checotah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Contact: FAS Food Assistance Division (202) 720-4221.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Kenai Fjords National Park recently earned a coveted Pinnacle Award for the 2014-2015 school year from the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) for their newly established distance learning program. CILC is recognized nationally and internationally as the leader in content aggregation, consulting, and support services that assist organizations with the utilization of videoconferencing and other collaborative technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who sold heroin to a confidential informant on multiple occasions in 2014 was sentenced today to one year in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Tayvon Mykal Gaulds, 21, previously pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington in May of 2015 to distributing heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Yuma, Ariz. - Reclamation's Yuma Area Office announced today that it will soon begin preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed Cibola Cut Old Channel Reconstruction Project, located along the lower Colorado River’s Cibola Division, just south of Palo Verde, California.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, Aug. 24, 2015 -The public is invited to come to Sandstone Visitor Center of New River Gorge National River on September 5, 2015 from 10 am to 4 pm for a special living history event. Join the Living History Interpreters of Trails Inc. as they share some of the survival skills used by 18th Century Shawnee, Delaware, Mingo, and Cherokee hunting parties as well as skills used by their predecessors in prehistoric times.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Ayman Shahid Admits to Participation in Builder Bailout Scheme to Inflate Home Prices During Peak of Mortgage Crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ramon Gomez Garcia, 44, of Arvin, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with a scheme to submit hundreds of false federal tax returns in the names of third parties, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. His co-conspirator, Ramon Duran Gallardo, 56, of Planada, pleaded guilty to the same offense on Aug. 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: SIOUX CITY, IOWA - A former Captain in the United States Air Force (USAF) who served in 2010 as a U.S. military contracting officer representative in Afghanistan, was sentenced last Thursday in United States District Court in Sioux City, Iowa, after having earlier pleaded guilty to violating restrictions...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 13 years in federal prison for robbing a Valero gas station and shooting the clerk, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: A man who illegally re-entered the country and then used a false social security number to obtain employment was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2015, to time served.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Mark your calendars for Sept. 26, the 21st annual National Public Lands Day. National Public Lands Day is the largest hands-on volunteer effort on public lands in Colorado and across the country. With 8.3 million acres of public lands in Colorado, the BLM relies on and celebrates the help of volunteers to accomplish many important projects. Each year, more than 4,000 volunteers contribute more than 200,000 hours to the BLM in Colorado!
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: YAKIMA, Washington - The Bureau of Reclamation announced that it will begin the annual "flip-flop" operation in the Yakima Basin by gradually reducing flows out of Cle Elum Reservoir in the upper Yakima River basin and increasing flows from Rimrock Reservoir affecting flows in the Tieton and Naches Rivers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Julianna Rosynelle Venego, 29, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for her assault conviction. Venego was sentenced to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) will join Saguaro National Park staff and students from Cholla High School, Desert View High School and Pueblo High School for a day of appreciation at Saguaro National Park West celebrating the National Park...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is turning 99 years old on August 25 and the Roosevelt -Vanderbilt National Historic Sites want to give you a present -free admission ! They are also marking the event by breaking ground for the restoration of the Roosevelt Home Garden by tilling the two-acre garden site.This...
