News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth Bryan Crowley, 29, of Rockville, Maryland, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for his role in a multi-state heroin distribution network, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,154,843 visitors to Death Valley National Park in 2015 spent $95,036,900 in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,336 jobs in nearby communities and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $124,098,200. The amount of money visitors spent in gateway communities increased for the second year in a row.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - After collecting and destroying 5.5 million pounds-2,762 tons-of unused prescription drugs in the past five years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) is continuing its efforts to take back unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications. The DEA invites the public to bring their potentially...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: LADYSMITH, Wis. - A machine operator who suffered fatal injuries as he serviced a high-speed conveyor belt in a Ladysmith paper mill in October 2015 might still be alive if his employer had ensured that equipment was powered down and locked out before the 46-year-old man entered the hazardous area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the convictions and lengthy prison sentences of two men who participated in a murder-for-hire scheme in the Scranton area in 2011-2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to strengthening the criminal justice system, the Department of Justice has designated the week of April 24-30 as National Reentry Week. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch is holding events this week in several cities to announce new efforts...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Veronica Cantu, 27, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Cantu was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 14, 2014. She was a fugitive with an outstanding warrant for her arrest until she was arrested in Michigan in November 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: A stunning photograph of two bison silhouetted in Yellowstone National Park’s winter morning sun was previewed today as the last of 16 Forever Stamp images to be revealed over a three-week period to celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary. The uniquely designed stamp pane containing all 16 stamp images will be previewed later this week.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today introduced an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to mount a robust response to the Zika virus at home and abroad. Joining Lowey were Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Ranking Democrat on the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee, and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), a member of the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Today, United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice and New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster announced the formation of an inter-office team of experienced, career prosecutors targeting the prosecution of opiate overdose deaths in New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: NASHVILLE - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Nashville District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 11th state-wide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 30, 2016 from 10 a.m.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will meet this week to examine a new rule by the Department of Labor that will restrict workers’ free choice and employers’ free speech. The committee will also meet this week to consider legislation that will improve efforts to prevent infant abuse and neglect.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon from southwest suburban Hickory Hills was sentenced today to more than six years in federal prison for illegally possessing several firearms with obliterated serial numbers.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: It's official: NIST's 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine - the largest in the world - is back in one piece after a colossal 16-month effort to overhaul the system for the first time in 50 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two individuals were sentenced in federal court in Martinsburg today for unlawful possession of firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - In recognition of the U.S. Department of Justice declaring the first National Reentry Week April 24-30, 2016, representatives of the Department of Justice, federal and local governmental agencies and politicians, employers and service providers are gathering to provide information to individuals...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: April 24-30, 2016, is Inaugural National Reentry Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Charlotte District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to its 11th state-wide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 30, 2016 from 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Henry Alberto Fernandez Gomez (30, Cape Coral) today pleaded guilty to access device (credit card) fraud and aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for the access device fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Hartville, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography. Edward Penn, 32, of Hartville, was sentenced by U.S District Judge M. Douglas...
