News from September 2015
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Julena Campbell or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. On Sunday, Sept. 20, visitors can join Yellowstone Raptor Initiative volunteer Katy Duffy celebrate the spectacle of raptor (bird of prey) migration in Yellowstone National Park’s Hayden Valley. The Hayden Valley Hawk Watch is a great opportunity...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Sept. 14, 2015, Adrian Romal Lomas (Lomas), 43, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge James E. Gritzner to 240 months in prison on the charge of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Lomas was also ordered to serve three years supervised release following the imprisonment, to pay $3,375 in restitution, and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced that $257,011 in additional grant funds have been made available to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to support, maintain, and refine jurisdiction-wide programs and functions under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA"). These funds...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Ahead of this week’s full committee vote to say #Yes2Energy, the Obama administration today signaled opposition to H.R. 702, bipartisan legislation authored by Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX) that would lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil. The Washington Free Beacon reports, “In the wake...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Johnny Blackshell, Jr., 21, Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with Hobbs Act robbery, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of seven years in prison, a maximum of life and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Ahead of this week’s full committee vote to say #Yes2Energy, the Obama administration today signaled opposition to H.R. 702, bipartisan legislation authored by Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX) that would lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil. The Washington Free Beacon reports, “In the wake...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Texas man has pleaded guilty to hate crime offenses for his role in a Mar. 8, 2012, assault of a gay African American man in Corpus Christi, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Luella Caldito and Daniel C. Silva at (619) 546-9713.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that George D. LaCasse, 35, of Caribou, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 35 months in prison and three years of supervised release by for his unlawful possession of firearms. LaCasse pleaded guilty on April 11, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: The lightning-caused Spruce Fire, burning in the backcountry of Yellowstone National, received significant rain overnight on Monday. The fire had grown to an estimated 2,594 acres as of noon on Monday, before storms moved into the area, dropping approximately.5 inches by Tuesday morning. Weather forecasts...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office announces the 2nd Annual Spring Fever Fun Day event scheduled for September 19 in the Sand Wash Basin. This event was originally scheduled for May 16, but was postponed due to weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Robert William McAllaster, 50, of Lapwai, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to sexual abuse of a child, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. McAllaster was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on March 17, 2015.
By State Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - With bipartisan majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate opposing the Iran nuclear deal, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, decried a partisan effort by a minority of senators to obstruct an up-or-down vote on a resolution ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBIRG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jessica A. McCracken, 32, of Clarksburg, was convicted of cocaine trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: North Broward Hospital District, a special taxing district of the state of Florida that operates hospitals and other health care facilities in the Broward County, Florida, area, has agreed to pay the United States $69.5 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - Co-defendants Michael Richard, 30, Cassandra Washington, 24, both of Charleston, and James Harris, 23, of Detroit, Michigan, pled guilty today in federal court in Charleston to their individual roles in the sale of heroin from a home in in Elkview, West Virginia in April of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Walt Green announced that combined federal, state, and local efforts to combat prescription drug abuse has resulted in a federal grand jury indictment charging three individuals in a...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today appointed four members and five alternates to serve on the National Peanut Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2016, and ending on Dec. 31, 2018, with the exception of the appointee for Florida, whose term will begin immediately and expire on Dec. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: A Maple Heights man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for illegally possessing firearms and counterfeit currency, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Donald Soranno, Special Agent in Charge of ATF's Columbus Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh drug dealer has been sentenced in federal court to 30 years in prison, followed by 10 years supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
