News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on 19 bills including two forest management bills-Rep. Raul Labrador’s (R-ID) Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act (H.R. 2316) and Rep. Don Young’s (R-AK) State National Forest Management Act of 2015 (H.R. 3650). H.R. 2316 passed by a vote of 25-13 and H.R. 3650 passed by a vote of23-15.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on the Environmental Assessment for the historic Trinidad Head Lighthouse and the 13 acres surrounding the structure. The Environmental Assessment is available on the BLM website or printed copies can be found at the BLM Arcata Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the recent unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging an array of federal narcotics and firearm violations by members of a drug trafficking organization operating in south Louisiana. The Superseding Indictment, which was returned by the grand jury on May...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that LARRY TALLEDO-TORREJON, 29, a citizen of Peru last residing in Stamford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to orchestrating a murder for hire scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Alexandria Va.- United States Park Police are investigating a fatal 2 vehicle crash involving a passenger car and mid-sized shuttle bus, on the George Washington Memorial Parkway near Stratford Lane. One passenger on the bus has died.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on 19 bills including a trio of bills to comprehensively address the existing funding, technical and legal impediments to abandoned mine cleanup. These mining reclamation bills passed in a larger unanimous consent package.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2016, and continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and After Dark in the Park (ADIP) programs with the public in July.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced TERRELL RICKY SETTLES, 23, of Smithfield to 84 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on June 14, 2016, a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Tony Knott, age 32 and Antoine Whitfield, age 26, both federal inmates at the United States Penitentiary Canaan (“USP Canaan"), in Waymart, Pennsylvania, with assaulting another inmate with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Stacey Wilson was sentenced to 81 months in prison on charges involving wire and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Guy Christopher Mannino, 57, of Fairbanks, was sentenced today in Anchorage to 17 years in federal prison for his convictions for soliciting the murders of a witness and two federal law enforcement agents.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: TALKEETNA, AK: A Japanese climber died of unknown medical causes high on Denali's West Buttress route the morning of June 14.Masayuki Ikeda, age 66 of Toride, Japan was a member of a 4-person climbing team making a bid for the summit of Denali the night of June 13 when he fell ill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge William McClure of District IV of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services announced the arrest of Steve Romero, a non-Indian, on the misdemeanor charge of trespassing on Nambe Pueblo land.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -This morning a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Michael Dalton, 33, of Roswell, N.M., with violating the federal firearms laws. The Magistrate Judge also entered an order detaining Dalton pending trial.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking contractors who meet the requirement of a short term wild horse and burro holding facility within a 75-mile radius of Jackson, Mississippi. All applications must be received by June 27, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Robert Porter, 52, of Westerville, Ohio with five counts of willfully filing a false income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and one count of making a false statement.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY - On Friday June 17, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site - Theodore Roosevelt’s home on Long Island - and important community partners will establish a native plant demonstration garden between the visitor center and historic chicken coop and farm shed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HEATHER GASTA, a/k/a “Heather Brez," a former manager of a Buffalo, New York-based debt collection company (the “Company"), pled guilty today to participating in a scheme to coerce thousands of victims across...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Michael Dewayne Winbush, 53, of Grand Rapids, was sentenced on June 14 to 180 months in federal prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that BUDDY KENNY ROGERS, age 36, of Sayre, Oklahoma was sentenced to 188 months imprisonment, followed by four years supervised release, for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B) and 841(b)(1)(C).
