News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: G. Walter Bressler and Bruce J. Clifton Previously Pled Guilty to Federal Conspiracy Charge.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement opposing the FAA extension...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today signed a declaring Aug. 7-13, 2016, as "National Farmers Market Week." This year marks the 17th annual National Farmers Market Week to honor and celebrate the important role that farmers markets play in local economies.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: SHIPROCK, N.M. - Media representatives are invited to join U.S. Department of the Interior and Navajo Nation leaders as they sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) intended to identify and evaluate emergency contingency water supplies for Navajo farms in northern New Mexico. U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López and senior Navajo Nation officials will sign the MOU at the Shiprock Chapter House.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Timothy S. Klimas, 27, of Bangor, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 50 years in prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release for creating and distributing child pornography. He pleaded guilty to the charges on Sept. 22, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man today admitted using social media to promote a sophisticated website that sold fake driver’s licenses, some of which were later used to commit financial crimes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A North Carolina man, who traveled from North Carolina to Carroll County, Virginia to sell methamphetamine, pled guilty today to federal drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-On Friday, July 8, 2016 Park Rangers responded to a call from hikers on the South Kaibab Trail reporting a woman who fell from Ooh Aah Point. Responding Rangers located the body of Colleen Burns, 35 of Orlando, FL approximately 400 feet below Ooh Aah Point.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Brandon L. Littlejohn, age 27, John A. Gossett, III, age 23, Dylan L. Patterson, age 20, D’Shawn C. Pitts, age 20, and Michael Riddle, age 20, all of Spartanburg, were sentenced today in federal court in Greenville...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has completed the environmental study process and released the necessary documents for the Pueblo Hydropower Project to move forward.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A bank robber who threated to “shoot up the place," was sentenced Monday to 100 months in federal prison, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Conviction is Part of Broader Plan to Fight Flow of Meth into Greater Charlottesville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Mark V. Holden, senior vice president and general counsel of Koch Industries, will be the keynote speaker next week at a conference sponsored by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama focused on reentry and fair chance employment issues for people returning to society from prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - Federal Highway Administration will soon open bids for proposed improvements to the 13-Mile Scenic Drive in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The bid solicitation is packaged into two schedules and one option. Notice to Proceed is expected in late summer and once a contract has been awarded, BLM and Federal Highway Administration will announce which bid schedule and option was awarded along with the timeline for construction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Randy Martinez, Jr., 21, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to federal child pornography offenses. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Martinez will be sentenced to 12 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Martinez will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Crater Lake National Park rangers seized more than 234 pounds of illegally harvested morel mushrooms during the Fourth of July weekend. The estimated market value of the confiscated mushrooms is $7,944.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- Warmer, drier weather has led to increased fire activity on the Fuller Fire. The lightning-caused fire is located on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, north of Fuller Canyon Road, about three miles west/southwest of Point Imperial. No structures are threatened. There are no road or trail closures in effect at this time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Gary Tuggle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division, announced today that the DEA will release its Analysis of Drug Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2015 report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A South Carolina man was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a Kansas girl, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: DETROIT - A Detroit Police Lieutenant and a second police officer from the now-disbanded Narcotics Unit of the Detroit Police Department were convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit on charges of robbing drug dealers and stealing drugs and money obtained in police searches, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
