News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that SHEENA CHANDEL MEIKLE, age 27, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years or more than life imprisonment, and up to a $10,000,000.00 fine or both.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is offering permits for cutting Christmas trees on public lands within designated areas of the Grand Junction Field Office starting today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation prepared an Environmental Assessment for the Firebaugh Canal Water District Second Lift Canal Lining Project Phase 5 - Washoe Avenue to Ashlan Avenue. The EA details Reclamation’s proposed grant of $564,000 to FCWD through CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grant Funding to reduce canal seepage, improve water reliability, and update structures to allow conversion to high-efficiency irrigation systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 38-year-old Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) “Lieutenant of Lieutenants" Ruben Reyes (aka “Menace") was sentenced to five consecutive life-in-federal-prison terms for the murders of four TMM members and Balcones Heights Police Officer Julian Pesina announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: A Palm Beach resident pled guilty for his participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The new chief of U.S. Border Patrol agreed with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) during a hearing Wednesday that more fencing is needed at the southwestern border and that apprehensions of illegal immigrants are up dramatically in 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today launched season two of “Better Buildings Challenge SWAP," featuring the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Air Force Academy. Both military operations swap energy teams to improve the energy efficiency of each one’s campus. Watch the episodes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: A man who sexually exploited a child, distributed child pornography, and received child pornography was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Stevie McDonald (42, Winter Haven) to 15 months in federal prison for bank fraud related to his role in a mortgage fraud conspiracy. As part of his sentence, the Court ordered him to pay restitution to J.P. Morgan Chase Bank in the amount of $74,868.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to address border security and hear from the new leadership of U.S. Border Patrol. Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - The last of nine defendants pleaded guilty in federal court this week to a child sex trafficking conspiracy after jury selection began.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Four MS-13 Members Sentenced to Life And a Fifth to 169 Months in Prison for Racketeering-Related Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Diwone Nobles, a/k/a “Pooh," 32, appeared before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor earlier this week and pleaded guilty to a child sex trafficking conspiracy, after jury selection began announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Carlsbad man has been sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison for his part in an international money laundering organization that conspired to move more than $15 million dollars in drug money for organizations that included the Sinaloa Cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Aquarium operator re-sentenced to eight additional months of incarceration, after violating conditions of his release.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Salt Lake City, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct a Competitive Coal Lease Sale for a tract of Federal coal in Sanpete and Sevier Counties, Utah. The tract is located approximately 10.5 miles west of Emery, Utah, under lands managed by the Manti-La Sal and Fishlake National Forests. The Federal coal tract, known as the Greens Hollow Tract, is located in the Wasatch Plateau Known Recoverable Coal Resource Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHN SPOSATO, age 64, of Slidell, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to wire fraud for his role in promoting and operating a national Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Loren 'Renn' Cannon Named Special Agent in Charge of the Portland Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Cartwright Previously Pled Guilty to Federal Conspiracy Charge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Annual winter closures to motorized and mechanized vehicles begin to go into effect Dec. 1in specific areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado River Valley Field Office to protect critical big game winter range and prevent road damage.
