News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Homestead, FL: Dry Tortugas National Park will reopen onTuesday, August 30 at 8 a.m.The ferry and seaplane concessions will resume day trips to the park, weather permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man today admitted his role in a violent and long-running racketeering conspiracy perpetuated by the “South Side Cartel," a set of the Bloods Street gang based in Newark, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - Holt Parker, 59, of Cincinnati pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here today to one count of possession of child pornography, admitting that he attempted to destroy a thumb drive containing nearly 1,000 video files, the majority of which depicted child pornography that he had downloaded from the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: FBI Child Abduction Training. Throughout the week, the FBI will be conducting training for law enforcement agencies in Louisiana. This training will provide attending agencies with the necessary skills and investigative techniques to successfully respond to a child abduction incident. The training consists...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida- U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II has sentenced Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif (25, Melbourne, and a citizen of the United Arab Emirates) to 18 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm and ammunition by an unlawful alien. Following his prison term, he will be deported back to the United Arab Emirates. Rehaif was found guilty by a federal jury in May 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Neurology Associates of Greenville, P.A., pled guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Greenville, for receiving misbranded drugs in interstate commerce, a violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Tropical Depression Eight is predicted to become a Tropical Storm early Tuesday morning and impact Cape Hatteras National Seashore over the next 24 to 48 hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - The last of four Dallas individuals who were involved in the January 2015 takeover-style robbery of an AT&T store in Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Noel Solett is the Third Member of Drug Conspiracy to Plead Guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Washington - National Mall and Memorial Parks Superintendent Gay Vietzke and members of her staff met this afternoon with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton to brief her on the recent spate of closures at the Washington Monument and give her a progress report on the modernization of the elevator and its control systems, the planning and design of which is currently underway.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairman John Mica (FL-07), of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will review the status of cleanup efforts following the recent flooding in Louisiana. The oversight trip will survey the progress of response efforts to the devastation from the recent tropical depression and associated weather system.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kelly S. Hobbs, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 26 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Hobbs will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Dennis Crawford, 47, of Newport, pled not guilty last Friday in U.S. District Court in Burlington to a charge of wire fraud. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Crawford on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 393,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Member of Newark, New Jersey, ‘South Side Cartel’ Gang Pleads Guilty to Racketeering, Carjacking, Robbery and Drug Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two doctors who each operated medical offices in Lynwood have been arrested on federal drug charges that allege they issued prescriptions for narcotics and sedatives without a medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison for a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Fitzgerald Ingram, 24, entered his guilty plea to illegally possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: FBI Seeks 'Boonie Hat' Armed Robber.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Obed Wild and Scenic River will celebrate National Public Lands Day by teaming up with the East Tennessee Climbers Coalition (ETCC) to host the 17th annual Adopt-a-Crag event at the park on Saturday, September 10. Volunteers are needed to help with several projects such as general trail maintenance and litter pickup.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Diameter Akala, age 43, of Silver Spring, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and New York, today, to 90 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for fraudulently obtaining over $1.4 million in unemployment benefits. Judge Hollander also ordered that Akala pay $1,468,463.80 in restitution, approximately the amount obtained in unemployment benefits.
