News from November 2016
By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tonight the House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation (H. Con. Res. 40) authored by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), which encourages North Korea to allow Korean Americans to meet their long-lost relatives separated by the Korean War.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve is hosting the Sixth Annual Science & History Symposium on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 at the historic Ribault Club on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida. Researchers, students and community members are invited to engage in presentations on exciting research...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Enrique Carbajal, 25, of Wheaton, Md., was sentenced today to 90 months in prison on a charge of first-degree sexual abuse of a child for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl this year in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Stillwell, Kansas tax return preparer was sentenced to 48 months in prison today for stealing his clients’ identities and federal income tax refunds falsely claimed in their names, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Thomas Beall for the District of Kansas.
By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s decision to send Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and Jeff DeLaurentis, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, to Fidel Castro’s funeral on Saturday...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two New York men were arrested today for allegedly forcing employees to work for them at a Halal chicken slaughterhouse in Middlesex County, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have closed all facilities in the park due to the extensive fire activity, and downed trees. Park Headquarters is currently without power and phone services.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) offices in Albuquerque, Socorro, Taos, Farmington, and Santa Fe are now selling Christmas tree permits. The permits will be sold until December 23 and cost $5. For a list of BLM office locations and contact information, please visit www.blm.gov/new-mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men were sentenced in federal court today for heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine distribution charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dariusz J. Prugar, age 32, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg, to 24 months in prison for computer hacking and wire fraud. In March 2016, a jury convicted Prugar of these offenses after a one-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced today Alex Arnez Jones, 27, of Atlanta, Georgia, to 262 months in prison for a string of armed robberies of Charlotte-area businesses, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Whitney also ordered Jones to serve three years of supervised release and to pay $6,319 as restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Lombardo, 25, of Lancaster, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and receipt of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 50 years and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID KEITH, a/k/a “David Wright," a/k/a “David Lee Keith," a/k/a “David Lee," a/k/a “Lee David," pled guilty this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan in Manhattan federal court to five counts stemming from his sexual exploitation of minors, related child pornography offenses, and making false statements to a federal agent concerning his abuse of children.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for Horsefly Irrigation District’s (HID) Dairy and Yonna Canals Piping Project.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking fluid milk processors and other interested parties to nominate candidates to serve on the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will appoint six individuals to succeed members whose terms expire on June 30, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Nov. 29, 2016, 4:00 a.m. Sevier County, City of Gatlinburg, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have reported widespread fire damage and continued fire activity throughout the Gatlinburg area and much of Sevier County including Wears Valley, Pigeon Forge, and Jones Cove. Gatlinburg...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Alexander Alcerro-Romero, of Honduras, was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced two men appeared in federal court to face distribution conspiracy and possession charges after law enforcement found over two kilograms of cocaine and heroin in their possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that THERESA JO DAVIS, age 62, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, pled guilty to MONEY LAUNDERING CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(h), punishable by not more than 20 years imprisonment, and up to a $500,000.00 fine or both.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López released a report today that provides a status update on the actions Reclamation is undertaking to meet the challenges of climate change on Western water supplies. This includes meeting the four goals established in the strategy, increasing water management flexibility, enhancing climate adaptation planning, improving infrastructure resiliency, and expanding information sharing.
