News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Reginald Jesse Hawley, 39, of Anchorage, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve 17 months in prison for being a felon in possession of explosives, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: (BROOKLYN, N.Y - - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of the DEA, New York Division; Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez; New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill; New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach and Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Braking Traffik Recognized as Recipient of FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award for 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), issued the following statement regarding the administration’s decision not to move forward with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) proposed changes to the Medicare Part B Drug Payment Model...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of sex trafficking of children, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - The National Park Service and Active Southern West Virginia have received a second year of grant funding from the National Park Foundation’s Active Trails program. This $23,544 grant will fund an expansion of the “Get Active in the Park" program that was piloted with success during the summer and fall of 2016 at the recently opened Camp Brookside Environmental Education Center inside New River Gorge National River.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing Bank of America and kidnapping the bank manager by forcing him to leave the bank with him.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Two men who admitted breaking into pharmacies and stealing controlled substances, Marcus Christopher Hargrove, Jr., and Kirkston Bernard Smith, each age 24, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the release of the new BLM 1780 Tribal Relations Manual and Handbook. The President and the Department of the Interior (Department) have made tribal relations and tribal consultation a priority of the Administration. This new guidance...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Today, a bipartisan group of ten members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee-including Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and former Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), wrote to the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to memorialize the Director’s commitment to provide a detailed look ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of sex trafficking of children, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today issued a final rule that overhauls the airworthiness standards for small general aviation airplanes. This innovative rule will reduce the time it takes to move safety enhancing technologies for small airplanes into the marketplace and will also reduce costs for the aviation industry.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service Southeast Utah Group is pleased to announce Anthony Lott as the 2017 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP). This is the first time the program will feature an artist residing in San Juan County, and focus on the southern parks of the group.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A former Carrollton, Texas, resident who worked as a sales agent for a national medical supply/equipment wholesaler, appeared in federal court yesterday and pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to steal and resell pre-retail medical products, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Arches and Canyonlands national parks are open all year, but the park’s visitor center operations change with the arrival of winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Justin Andrew White, age 24, Lemarcus Bonner, age 32, and Kelvin Terrill Brown, age 23, all residents of Mobile, Alabama, to serve prison sentences for their...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Isaac Guadalupe Valdez-Cervantes, 42, of Gooding, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 72 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Valdez-Cervantes pleaded guilty to the charge on July 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kyle Eagan, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) and Murder in Aid of Racketeering, was sentenced to 265 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A total of nine people are in custody following law enforcement actions in multiple cities that began on Thursday involving a drug trafficking organization operating throughout South Texas, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Houston Division, Special Agent in Charge, Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
