News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Three Palm Beach County, Florida, residents were charged with conspiring and attempting to support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - The United States Attorney’s Office is hosting three workshops entitled, “Iowa’s Untapped Workforce: A Roadmap for Second Chance Hiring," for employers, business students, human resource professionals, and community members across the District next week. The workshops will help participants...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JUAN PABLO ARREOLA was found guilty yesterday of conspiring to distribute kilogram quantities of heroin. ARREOLA was convicted after a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve will celebrate the National Park Service Centennial on Saturday, Aug. 27 with special presentations that examine our past and look to the future with explorers, park rangers, astronauts and more! All events will take place in the visitor center theater.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: (Calumet, MI) Wyndeth Davis, a 27-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), has been selected as the Superintendent of Keweenaw National Historical Park in Michigan. Davis is currently the Associate Manager for Interpretive Planning at the NPS Harpers Ferry Design Center, West Virginia. She begins the new assignment on September 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Douglas Edward Hale, 39, a resident of Troy, Alabama, was sentenced Thursday, July 21, 2016, to 210 months (17 ½ years) in federal prison for receipt of child pornography, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Defendants Charged with Participating in Sophisticated International Cell Phone Fraud Scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with Western Area Power Administration, is pleased to present a webinar titled "Project Development for Long Term Tribal Energy" on Wednesday, July 27, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. This webinar will introduce the project development framework the Office of Indian Energy developed to facilitate tribal energy projects, which includes five steps.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Hyde Park - Roosevelt-Vanderbilt-Van Buren National Historic Sites announce changes pertaining to motor vehicle access. Entrance gates located at Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, and Roosevelt Farm Lane Trail on RT 9 and RT 9G will be subject to closure 30 minutes prior to sunset. The grounds will continue to remain open to pedestrians until sunset.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kliton Xhemali, - 33, of Bangor was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock to 18 months imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release on his conviction for distribution of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Natchitoches man was sentenced Wednesday to 211 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine and a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DARION TINSON, age 34, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty today to two counts of an Indictment charging violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act and the Federal Gun Control Act.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD-- After traveling 1,975 miles across 7 states as part of the American Solar Challenge, it all ends for college teams from across the world with a checkered flag at Wind Cave National Park on Saturday, August 6. Over a dozen university teams have designed and built solar-powered cars that will participate in an 8-day open road rally while stopping at 9 different National Park Service sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alphonso Roberts, 32, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a charge of second-degree murder while armed for killing a man earlier this year outside a public library, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Michael Boxler, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) and Glen Canyon Natural History Association (NHA) will host the first annual Glen Canyon Bat Festival on Thursday, August 4 at the Wahweap amphitheater.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss -James Bell, Jr., 21, of Choctaw, Mississippi, entered a guilty plea on July 19, 2016 to second degree murder, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. The murder occurred in the Pearl River Community of the Choctaw Indian Reservation near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a four-day trial, a federal jury found Raymond Arthur Gentile, 55, currently a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, guilty today of conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, possessing marijuana with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted the former owner of a rooftop building overlooking Wrigley Field of defrauding the Chicago Cubs and municipal taxing agencies by underreporting attendance figures and gross revenues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: FBI Offers Up to $10,000 Reward to Recover Stolen Weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of malicious destruction of property by fire and wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
