News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Oscar Alonzo, age 23, of Springdale, was sentenced to 110 months in federal prison followed by three...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review an Environmental Assessment/Initial Study for the Tranquillity Irrigation District, East-West. Intertie Water Conservation Project. The TID proposes to construct a pump structure and turnout at the Western Distribution System’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Following a five-day trial, a federal jury in Boston convicted a financial planner of attempting to hire an individual to murder a Massachusetts State Police Trooper and another individual who were witnesses in his state trial.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service's Southeast Utah Group (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is pleased to announce Madeline Logowitz has been selected as the 2016 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Open the Door for Future Generations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Tennessee man was indicted and arrested for fraudulently obtaining $7,319 in Veterans’ unemployment compensation benefits from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Decatur County woman has been sentenced to federal prison for maintaining a mail fraud scheme that defrauded a company of more than $770,000. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Miguel Angel Vasquez Torres, 34, from Beckemeyer, Illinois, plead guilty on March 1, 2016, in the United States District Court to a three-count indictment charging him with Production of Child Pornography, Distribution of Child Pornography and Receipt of Child Pornography, Acting United States Attorney James L. Porter announced today. Vasquez Torres has been in custody since he was arrested on these charges on Aug. 25, 2015. Sentencing has been set for June 28, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s intention to ignore key provisions in the just-signed Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (i.e. “the Customs Bill")...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed three members and four alternates to serve on the National Honey Board. Each appointee will serve a three year term beginning immediately, and ending on Dec. 31, 2018, with the exception of one alternate whose term will end on Dec. 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Donnie Vest, age 61, of Rogers, Arkansas, was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment followed by 10 years of supervised release for Receipt of Child Pornography and ordered to pay a $15,000.00 fine. The sentencing took place before the Honorable Timothy L. Brooks in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Death Valley National Park will host a BioBlitz event at Salt Creek on March 12, 2016. BioBlitz is a festival celebrating the biodiversity of the Death Valley area and provides an opportunity for all ages to participate in valuable research.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: A documented gang member, the defendant faces a sentence of not less than 15 years and up to life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Michael Dean Drew, 43, originally from Jacksonville but now an inmate of the Florida Department of Corrections, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today for mailing a threatening letter to a federal judge with the intent to extort a thing of value. United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Three leaders and four others have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in a hydroponic marijuana growing conspiracy operating in and around Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. All had previously entered guilty pleas in the case.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Bill Johnson’s (R-OH), H.R. 4557, the Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns (BRICK) Act by a bipartisan vote of 238 -163. The BRICK Act would protect the brickmaking industry and thousands of jobs from being required to comply with the EPA’s costly “Brick MACT" rule before the completion of judicial review.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In advance of their first idea forum today, the chairs of the Task Force on Health Care Reform released their mission statement. This mission statement, laying out the goals of the task force, marks the next step in the development of a bold, pro-growth agenda that Republicans will present to the country in the coming months.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed renewal of the Central Valley Project interim renewal contracts for the Westlands Water District, Santa Clara Valley Water District and Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 41 count indictment charging Alan Ceccarelli, 30, of Buffalo, NY, with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and distribution of alprazolam and buprenorphine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
