News from May 2016
By US DOT Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced that two of the Committee’s senior staff will be departing in June.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A 31-year-old Tango Blast gang member has been ordered to federal prison for 15 years following his convictions in two separate indictments, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. William Chance Wallace, of Victoria, pleaded guilty Feb. 10, 2016, to witness retaliation and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tyesha Towanda Roberts, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today to attempting to obstruct a federal investigation.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, AZ-The National Park Service (NPS) and International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) are pleased to announce Flagstaff Area National Monuments -Sunset Crater Volcano, Walnut Canyon and Wupatki - have been designated as an International Dark Sky Park by the IDA. The monuments and their immediate...
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: 2016 TEACHER-RANGER-TEACHER PROGRAM OPENING ANNOUNCED. Seeking a Bay Area Educator to Join the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Crew this Summer. Friday, May 20, 2016 is the Application Deadline for this Unique, 230-hour Position. San Francisco -San Francisco Maritime National Historical...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A federal jury convicted John David McGaha today of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Bertram Fairries.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violation federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Baltimore,Maryland - Tyesha Towanda Roberts, age 37, of Baltimore,Maryland pleaded guilty today to attempting to obstruct a federal investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brooklyn, New York, man who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List in 1988 today admitted robbing a TD Bank in Oakland, New Jersey, in April 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Does your fiddle need a tune up? Need some advice about your banjos broken bridge? If so, you need a luthier! A luthier is a person who makes and repairs stringed instruments. You are invited to bring your string instrument issues to the Tallgrass Prairie Fiddle Festival at Homestead National Monument...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gordon L. Montgomery, 57, of Batavia, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The former “Inca" of the Springfield Latin Kings gang pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Springfield to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Forty-eight alleged members of the violent Gangster Disciples Gang - including the top leaders in Tennessee and Georgia - have been charged in two indictments and accused of conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise that included multiple murders, attempted murder and drug crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ramon Phillip Baca, 44, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a heroin trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Baca will be sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: CORAOPOLIS, Pa. - The Special Agent in (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia Division, Gary Tuggle and the Chief of the Coraopolis Police Department, Ronald Denbow announced the indictment of 22 people for violations of the Pennsylvania Controlled Substance Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Salt Lake City- The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Salt Lake Field Office is extending until May 31, 2016, its public comment period on an environment assessment analyzing alternatives for managing target shooting in the Eastern Lake Mountains area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Wednesday to 40 months in federal prison for robbing a man whose job was to stock ATMs with cash, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - William Kyndall Francis, age 39, of Elkridge, Maryland pleaded guilty today to wire fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: BOULDER, Colo. - JILA physicists have extended the capability of their powerful laser "combing" technique to identify the structures of large, complex molecules of the sort found in explosives, pharmaceuticals, fuels and the gases around stars.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Navy (Navy) and National Park Service (NPS) announce that San Miguel Island will reopen to public visitation on May 17, 2016, in time for the summer season.
