News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - The leader of a multi-national drug trafficking organization was arrested earlier this week and was returned to the United States yesterday from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. Four members of the organization were arrested June 23, 2016, in Washington State. Conspiracy leader...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, ID - Approximately 80 acres of land near St. Anthony in Fremont County is now protected in perpetuity thanks to willing landowners, the Teton Regional Land Trust and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). On July 29, 2016, the BLM acquired a conservation easement on 65 acres and fee title to 15 acres of property located on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Raymond L. Blackmer, III, pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing guns that he assembled from component parts in Massachusetts and then brought to New Hampshire. Blackmer pleaded guilty to one count of the federal crime of Illegal Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. Blackmer is 51 years old, and, before his arrest in this case, he lived in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY- Jessica Wade has been selected as the State Fire Management Officer for the Bureau of Land Management Utah. Wade will be responsible for the overall leadership, policy, and program direction for the wildland fire and aviation programs.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are continuing their oversight efforts in examining the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN), which is composed of laboratories at multiple levels examining food and environmental factors. Building on its past work, full committee...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement regarding the FCC’s adoption today of its media ownership proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND - John E. Fox, the owner of Premier Cru, a now-bankrupt wine shop based in Berkeley, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The plea agreement follows the filing of charges in June 2016 that the wine shop owner engaged in fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Allegedly Filed Forged Documents, Leading to Nearly $340,000 in Ill-Gotten Gains.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are continuing their oversight efforts in examining the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN), which is composed of laboratories at multiple levels examining food and environmental factors. Building on its past work, full committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Jay S. Tabb, Jr. Named Special Agent in Charge of Seattle Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Murder, Felony Child Abuse-Aggravated Battery of an Infant, and Felony Child Abuse & Neglect.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - David Tyrone Johnson, 48, of Washington, D.C. has been indicted on charges that he conspired to commit bank fraud and other crimes arising from a real estate scheme involving a forged mortgage satisfaction document.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCISCO SANCHEZ-REYES, also known as “Chino," 38, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Second Defendant to Plead Guilty in Ongoing Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - A California man who shot a woman twice during an attempted bank robbery has pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the incident. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are continuing their oversight efforts in examining the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN), which is composed of laboratories at multiple levels examining food and environmental factors. Building on its past work, full committee...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: JOHNSON CITY, TEXAS -Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park will celebrate the 108th anniversary of President Johnson's birth with a ceremony at 10:00 am on Saturday, August 27. Continuing a tradition that Lady Bird Johnson began in 1973, a wreath will be placed at the president's gravesite in the...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Mitch is on a mission to help find a cure for the rare form of bone cancer that took the life of his friend Zach Sobiech.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: MINERAL, CA - As of this week, Lassen Volcanic National Park has implemented an emergency closure that affects how backcountry visitors store their food. Visitors venturing into Lassen's backcountry on overnight trips are now required to store their food and other scented items in an approved food storage...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Effective on Monday, September 5th, the Kelso Depot Visitor Center in the Mojave National Preserve will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week.
