News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Patrick W. Ganim, 29, of, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was convicted of traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor female today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: LAKE MOHAVE, Arizona - Three pipe bombs were discovered underwater in Lake Mohave and were made safe without incident June. 8.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter to U.S. International Trade Commission Chairman Meredith Broadbent today requesting the government adopt statistical reporting numbers for imports of electronic cigarettes (“e-cigarettes") in response to a new report...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- Coconino County Public Health Services District, in collaboration with the National Park Service, will be initiating monthly monitoring for plague at various locations on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The purpose is to monitor public areas for the presence of plague...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy Corrigan today sentenced Harold Walbey, III to four years and three months in federal prison for identity theft and wire fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $110,756, the proceeds of the offenses. Walbey pleaded guilty on Dec. 18, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - The man who touched off a devastating Bellevue apartment fire with his illegal hash oil manufacturing was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison. David Richard Schultz II, 33, was using highly explosive butane gas to make hash oil in the Hampton Greens Apartment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Two individuals, who were arrested during a November 2014 law enforcement operation in which 37 individuals were charged with felony offenses stemming from their respective roles in a drug distribution conspiracy that operated in North Texas and elsewhere from January 2013 to October 2014, have been sentenced to lengthy federal prison sentences. John Parker, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, made the announcement today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 HOUSTON — Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today traveled to Houston where he, along with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, met with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees. ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2015
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have closed several trails and backcountry campsites in the Hazel Creek section of the park due to a bear incident occurring at approximately 10:30 p.m. on June 6. A 16-year old male from Ohio was pulled from his hammock by a bear and injured at backcountry campsite 84 which is 4.5 miles from the Fontana Lake shoreline near Hazel Creek in NC. The father was able to drive the bear off from the area.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2015
News Release: Firefighters continue to work the lightning-caused Thunder Creek Fire within North Cascades National Park Service Complex, now at about 30% contained.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2015
News Release: Naturalist Programs at Tucson Mountain District (West, 2700 N. Kinney Rd).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2015
News Release: Virgin, Utah-In order to complete critical reconstruction of the Kolob Terrace Road, the existing roadwork schedule will be expanded to include Friday afternoon closures. The additional road closure, from 1:00 pm -4:00 pm on Fridays, will go into effect Aug. 1, 2015. This major reconstruction project began in March of this year and significant progress has been made. Expected completion is Dec. 11, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. News Release. -. June 5, 2015. Contacts. Name: ERIC CAMPBELL (540) 868-0937. National Park Service Announces Summer. Ranger Conducted and New "Battlefield Series" Programs. Middletown, VA ----- Cedar Creek and Belle Grove. National Historical Park is once again offering a full-slate...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. News Release. -. June 5, 2015. Contacts. Name:ERIC CAMPBELL (540) 868-0937. National Park Service Announces Summer. Ranger Conducted and New "Battlefield Series" Programs. Middletown, VA----- Cedar Creek and Belle Grove. National Historical Park is once again offering a full-slate of...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Beach Drive between Porter Street NW and Rock Creek Parkway will close between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. June 12th through June 23rd. The temporary night-time closures allow the National Park Service to replace old lights in the Beach Drive Zoo Tunnel with new energy efficient LED lighting. The NPS expects to reduce energy consumption from tunnel lights by 75 percent.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On June 8, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will travel to Miami to deliver remarks on the Department’s efforts on security and facilitation of legitimate travel and trade at the International Air Transport Association ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 5, 2015 – U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell invites children and families to experience the many benefits of nature by participating in the 8th annual National Get Outdoors Day, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The event, also known as " GO Day ," inspires national and local organizations to come together to promote the social, economic and environmental benefits of outdoor recreation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: A Georgia real estate investor pleaded guilty today for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Georgia, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Michael Todd Wolfe aka Faruq, 24, of Austin, Texas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Court Judge Sam Sparks of the Western District of Texas to serve 82 months in federal prison for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, announced Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: A Dix Hills, New York, resident and business owner was sentenced to serve more than one year in prison today in the Eastern District of New York for employment tax fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
