News from August 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE-Terrence Connors, 61, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced late yesterday afternoon in federal court to 60 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: he National Park Service is turning 99 years old on August 25 and Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks want to give you a present - free admission! The usual entrance fee will be waived for all visitors on August 25. Come experience the beauty of the Everglades, or a very special living history...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska B U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a former Washington resident was sentenced to 120 months of imprisonment for drug trafficking, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Park Entrance Fees Waived and Special Events on 99th Birthday of the NPS.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Justin Raymond Nekeferoff, 27, of Wasilla, Alaska, charging him with attempted sexual exploitation of a child - coercion and enticement of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Big Bend National Park will celebrate the 99th birthday of the National Park Service by waiving its normal entrance fee of $25 on August 25th, 2015. A special interpretive program for Founders Day will also be offered Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 5:00 PM at the Chisos Mountains Lodge restaurant patio. The program will explain the National Park Service's upcoming Centennial and offer an Instameet with a ranger. Refreshments will be available, as well.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Atlanta, Georgia - Star-lit skies, fire pits, story time, s’mores bar, tents, sleeping bags, and 100 fourth graders are all necessary ingredients for what’s cooking this fall! On September 25th students from across the Metro Atlanta area are set to gather at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site (MLK Jr. NHS) to partake in the Legacy Campout: Road to the Centennial - an experience being organized and executed by MLK Jr. NHS and Greening Youth Foundation (GYF).

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - RANDALL HINTON was the leader of a scheme to alter and counterfeit documents in order to obtain state issued motor vehicle titles for himself and others, and to obtain loans secured by motor vehicle titles. Hinton, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced on August 11 to 136 months in prison;...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: David Darnell Brown aka “Young Buck," 34, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., pleaded guilty today to knowingly and willfully falsifying, concealing, and covering up by trick, scheme, and device, material facts regarding his possession and use of marijuana, by providing a false urine sample and lying to a U.S. Probation...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Ricky Nuckles has been sentenced to 17 years, seven months in federal prison for trafficking 22 kilograms of cocaine and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of that offense. Nuckles was found guilty by a jury on May 13, 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Ukrainian national in Jefferson City, Mo., and an El Paso, Texas, woman have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a marriage fraud conspiracy so that he could remain in the United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Emery Lee Begay, 32, of Lakeside, Ariz., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Socorro and Catron Counties, N.M.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: Berlin, MD -The National Park Service is turning 99 years old on August 25 and Assateague Island National Seashore wants to give you a present -free admission in the Maryland district! The usual entrance fee of $20.00 per vehicle will be waived for all visitors on August 25. We'll get the party started...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of three people have been ordered to federal prison for their roles related to a conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: The ring operated throughout Kent and Kalamazoo counties.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -Superintendent Pat Kenney is pleased to announce that the next Evening at the Cape Lookout Lighthouse programs will take place on Thursday, Aug. 27, Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29. This is an excellent time to come experience a different side of your favorite beach. Watch...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Anthony Castaneda, 45, resident of Oakdale, pled guilty today before Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to Receipt of a Gratuity by a Public Official, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 21 indictments charging 24 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: For Felon in Possession of a Firearm.