News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ivan Romero, 40, the leader of a heroin trafficking organization based in Taos County, N.M. pleaded guilty earlier this week to federal heroin and money laundering charges filed as the result of a 15-month DEA-led multi-agency investigation. His brother, Ricco Romero, 29, and his wife, Melissa Romero, 37, also entered guilty pleas to federal charges pursuant to plea agreements with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Lamar Vinson Kaintuck, age 28, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Glenn Bartley, 56, of Inwood, West Virginia, was sentenced to 71 months in prison for multiple federal stalking charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Pipestone National Monument News Release. For Release: Immediate Release 12/09/2016. Contact: Cody Goraczkowski Phone: 507-825-5464 Ext. 213 Email: e-mail us. Monument Visitor Center Closed For Federal Holidays. Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen H. Livermont announced that, due to the upcoming federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Richard Slamick, 42, of Clarksburg, West Virginia pled guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm in federal court today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Michael P. Klekamp, 67, of Charlottesville, pleaded guilty today to charges of bank fraud that resulted in a $10.5 million loss to Fauquier Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A Mission man and employee of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been taken into custody on charges he accepted more than $1,000 in bribes, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - The National Park Service (NPS) has released the Final Off-Road Vehicle Plan/ Environmental Impact Statement (plan) for Cape Lookout National Seashore (Seashore). The Notice of Availability was published in the Federal Register on December 9, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the U.S. Forest Service released its Final Record of Decision (ROD) to amend the Tongass Land Management Plan (plan).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Kensington, Pa, has been sentenced in federal court for the third time, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Park rangers say “Bring on the snow!" so visitors can begin to explore Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) on snowshoes this winter! On Wednesday, December 28 and Saturday, Dec. 31, there will be holiday snowshoe hikes (or winter hikes if there is not enough snow) at 1:00 p.m. Meet at the National Lakeshore’s Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire. Reservations are required.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) will issue a Request for Proposals on Dec. 15, 2016, to host ranger-narrated activities for the public in and around Acadia National Park during the 2017 - 2021 summer seasons. The NPS is soliciting proposals to provide safe, high-quality interpretive experiences for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced on December 8, 2016, Noelle Bishopel, 27, and Sierra Wimberly, 26, both of Atlanta, Georgia, for possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez sentenced Wimberly to two months’...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dr. Robert Gorrell, Jr., age 66, of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to evading payment of his income taxes, pursuant to a plea agreement with the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Steven Craig Deason, Jr., age 40 of Gray, Georgia, was found guilty of one count of attempted online enticement of a minor and six counts of attempted transfer of obscene matter to a minor. A jury, sitting in the Middle District of Georgia, found Mr. Deason guilty on December 9, 2016 following a trial that lasted a week. U.S. District Court Judge Marc Thomas Treadwell was the presiding judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Son was Prohibited from Possessing Firearms; Fatally Shot by Police after Stand-off with Shots fired at Officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A Mission man and employee of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been taken into custody on charges he accepted more than $1,000 in bribes, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: The FAA is now helping to reduce or eliminate one source of delay at Chicago O’Hare and Midway through the use of Data Communications (Data Comm), part of the FAA’s NextGen air traffic control modernization. Data Comm will help reduce delays by making pilot-controller communications shorter and more accurate, which could help keep a plane in the departure line and on schedule. It is now operational at both of Chicago’s major airports.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Lately, neutrinos - the tiny, nearly massless particles that many scientists study to better understand the fundamental workings of the universe - have been posing a problem for physicists.
