News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Carl Junction, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography after she posted nude photos of a 15-year-old victim on the victim’s...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -The National Park Service (NPS) announced today a 30-day extension of the public comment period for Grand Canyon National Park's Backcountry Management Plan (BMP) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). The public comment period began Nov. 23, 2015 and will now close April 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dondie Williams, 36, of Wheeling, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced new appointments or reappointments of members to the California Desert District citizen-based Desert Advisory Council (DAC) which advises the agency on over 10 million acres of southern California desert public land management issues. The DAC is composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana Stephanie A. Finley announced today that three former and two current employees of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office pleaded guilty to their roles in beating inmates at the Iberia Parish Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - United States Attorney Kevin W. Techau convened a second financial fraud training session today in Dubuque developed to examine various fraudulent schemes in an effort to strengthen prevention and detection efforts. The training brought together area financial institutions together...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Deonte Carraway, age 22, of Glenarden, Maryland, was charged by federal criminal complaint today with eight counts of producing child pornography, involving six minor victims ranging in age from nine to 11 years old. An indictment was also returned today in Prince George’s County...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Former Software Company Employee Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Sending Damaging Computer Code to Company Servers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: ST. LOUIS - -The Karlovsky and Company Dance performed at the Ferguson Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis as a kick-off to the DEA Youth Dance Program that will be providing free 20-week dance classes at three locations in the Greater St. Louis area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eduardo Duran, Jr., 34, of Artesia, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $275,000 civil penalty against Atlas Airlines of Purchase, N.Y., for allegedly operating a Boeing 747 after performing improper maintenance on the aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Jonathan Dillard, 49, of Kuna, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possession and access with intent to view child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Dillard was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb. 19, 2016, Joshua Lee Lindsey, 30, of Lyman, S.C., was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 180 months in federal prison for his leadership role in an extensive a-(alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy and an international money laundering conspiracy involving northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia, western North Carolina and western South Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today pressed Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on her department’s $13.4 billion budget request, noting that it would further restrict resource production in federal areas and ignore budget realities by increasing mandatory spending.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Justin Bent, 28, of Southwest Harbor, Maine, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to operating under the influence of alcohol (OUI) and causing serious bodily injury, operating a vehicle without due care and destroying trees and other natural resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Benjamin Cunha, 33, of Placerville, was sentenced today to five years in prison for arson, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. In addition, United States District Judge John A. Mendez ordered Cunha to pay $246,862 in restitution to Cal Fire.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - During March, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park will display 13 colorful art quilts created to celebrate the National Park Service centennial anniversary. The park quilts will be on exhibit in the Volcano House's Great Room, just off the lobby, starting Friday, March 4 through...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: The researchers, who are monitoring and forecasting offsite link the loss of corals from disease and heat stress due to record ocean temperatures, report that the global coral bleaching event that started in 2014 could extend well into 2017.
