News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: At Black History Month event, Secretary Jewell announced partnership with Google Cultural Institute to digitally feature nation’s cultural, historical artifacts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Scott McMahon, 32, of Orchard Park, New York, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court before Judge Jon D. Levy to pharmacy robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Senior District Court Judge Raymond L. Finch on Feb. 11, 2016, sentenced Delroy Woods, 25, of St. Croix, to 21 months of imprisonment for possession of prison contraband, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Finch also ordered Woods to serve two years of supervised release, pay a $250 fine and pay a $100 mandatory assessment.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today joined members of Congress, state and local officials, and local business and community leaders in applauding the President's designation of the Sand to Snow National Monument, Mojave Trails National Monument, and Castle...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Ronald Eugene Bohm, 50, from California, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and possessing a machinegun, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Bohm was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 11, 2015 and entered guilty pleas on Dec. 2, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Crimes Took Place in 2013 and 2014 at Northwest Washington School.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: The owner of a Novi, Michigan, restaurant was taken into custody after a criminal complaint was filed in federal court charging him with harboring undocumented immigrants, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Research showing that people whose diets lack adequate vitamin D may be at increased risk of developing osteoarthritis in their knees is among the new nutrition and health findings in the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Terrance Baylor, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU - After a two-day bench trial in United States District Court, United States Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi found Travis R. Sanders, age 36, of Hilo, guilty on Feb. 10, 2016, of violating a lawful order of a United States Park Ranger and sentenced him to pay a $1,000 fine. The trial was held in Hilo, on the island of Hawaii.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - The Savannah-Chatham Reentry Council, in collaboration with the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, Dismas Charities Inc. and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia are hosting a conference for local business leaders. The discussions will educate attendees...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Errol Martin Sagataw, 60, of Wilson, Michigan, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months’ and one day of imprisonment for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced today. In addition, Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker sentenced Sagataw to serve 2 years of supervised release following the completion of his term of incarceration.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Gregory Melton, doing business as GM Brokerage.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, sentenced Tony Linn Smith, age 56, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, immediately after Smith entered his guilty plea to bank robbery. Judge Motz also entered a forfeiture order requiring Smith to pay a money judgment in the amount of $4,775.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Robert Mark Haugland, II, 25, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 10 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2015 to one count of transportation of child pornography. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Sold and shipped defense articles including night vision goggles, scopes and tubes through eBay accounts to buyers in the United Kingdom, Poland, and Japan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: DTO Operated From Dallas County Jail and From Pleasant Grove Area of South Dallas.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: EMMETT, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking comments on the revised Draft Environmental Assessment to help identify issues and concerns associated with the proposed construction of a third hydroelectric generating unit at Black Canyon Diversion Dam on the Payette River near Emmett, Idaho.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new hazard alert from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health identifies health and safety risks to oil and gas industry workers who manually gauge or sample fluids on production and flowback tanks. It was triggered by a series of preventable deaths related to manual gauging of tanks.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement in support of the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2016 (Senate Amendment to H.R. 757 ) on the House floor...
