News from November 2016
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Mineral, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park Superintendent Steve Gibbons announced that the winning entry for the 2017 Lassen Annual Pass photo contest was submitted by Michele Swartout of Red Bluff, California. This wonderful photograph entitled, “American Pika along the Lassen Peak Trail" showcases one of nearly 60 species of mammals found at Lassen Volcanic National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Robbery and Use and Brandishing of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime of Violence was sentenced on November 8, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FREDDIE GONZALEZ, 34, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his supervised release that followed a 2007 conviction for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: The elected Supervisor of Chesterfield Township was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today based on a criminal complaint charging him with demanding and taking bribes in exchange for his official acts in connection with a municipal contract, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting a prescribed burn that includes approximately 20 acres along the Perea Nature Trail in the Rio Salado Riparian Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that LUKE AUSTIN HOMER, age 36, of McAlester, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 84 months imprisonment for POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE MORE THAN 5 GRAMS OF ACTUAL METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Ohio - OSHA cited an Ohio company after a 33-year-old employee was crushed to death in June 2016 as he was digging soil out of the 12-foot trench in Washington Township, when the trench walls around him collapsed - burying him in thousands of pounds of dirt. Rescue workers recovered his body a few hours later.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sherri Walker Hobson (619) 961-0287.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Former Madison County, Alabama, Deputy Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Lying Under Oath to Obstruct Investigation Into Beating.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Brett Karr, age 28 and Adam Karr, age 29, both of Alma, Arkansas, were sentenced today in federal court on three counts each of Production of Child Pornography. Brett and Adam Karr were each...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Nov. 15 designated the West Bijou Site in eastern Colorado as the newest national natural landmark. With a rich fossil record, this 7,613-acre site provides critical information for understanding the timescale of all of Earth’s history.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Duson business owner pleaded guilty Wednesday to evading taxes for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Aleksandr Kovalev, 53, of Rocklin, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud involving financial institutions in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme involving the purchase of at least 31 properties, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Nov. 15 designated the West Bijou Site in eastern Colorado as the newest national natural landmark. With a rich fossil record, this 7,613-acre site provides critical information for understanding the timescale of all of Earth’s history.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that two Winner, South Dakota, men convicted of Criminal Trespass were sentenced on Nov. 10, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, released the following statement and urged swift action by the full Senate after a business meeting in which the committee unanimously approved the nominations of Hon. Robert Taub and Hon. Mark Acton to serve as Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). The nominations will now go to the full Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: In two related cases, seven residents of Miami-Dade County pled guilty to conspiracy charges arising from their involvement in a complex mortgage fraud scheme involving two condominium conversion projects in central Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: A northern Iowa man pled guilty yesterday, in federal court in Cedar Rapids, to unlawfully disposing of the City of New Hampton’s sewage sludge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Eric Jaquays, age 54, of Little Falls, New York, was sentenced today to 5 years of imprisonment for distributing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news that Republican lawmakers will push through another short term continuing resolution to fund the government through March 2017...
