News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - An accounting clerk in the Food and Nutrition Services Division of the Brownsville Independent School District (BISD) has been ordered to prison for stealing cash proceeds from concessions sales at four schools for nearly six years, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Leticia Arreola, 39, of Los Fresnos, entered a guilty plea Wednesday, June 1, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has announced preliminary concepts that identify a range of transportation and visitor use management strategies for the Acadia National Park Transportation Plan. The NPS is preparing the transportation plan to determine ways to provide safe and efficient transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Manderson, South Dakota, man convicted of Enticement of a Minor Using Interstate Commerce was sentenced on October 5, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 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 | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: OCT 12 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Deborah Miller, 60, of West Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that a DOE-funded project on second-generation carbon dioxide (CO2) solvent technology will begin testing at the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) in western Norway. The DOE and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy have a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) covering fossil energy-related research to leverage each countries’ investments in carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Angel Manuel Fontanez (32, Clermont) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, as well as individual counts of distributing and possessing heroin. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), and House Oversight and Government Reform Interior Subcommittee Chairman Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 26-year-old Valentin Renko was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Barry Phillip Armstrong, 34, of Los Angeles, to 84 months in prison for felon in possession of a firearm and interstate transportation for prostitution. Following his prison sentence, Armstrong will be on supervised release for three years.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan B. Jarvis has appointed U.S. Public Health Service Capt. (Dr.) Sara Newman as the bureau's science integrity officer. The science integrity officer position is an addition to her duties as director of the NPS Office of Public Health.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Drugs seized during investigation have estimated street value of over $450,000.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Starting Monday, Oct. 17, a temporary area closure will be in effect for several trails and walkways within the South Jenny Lake area of Grand Teton National Park. The temporary public closure is necessary to ensure public safety during construction activities involving helicopter transport...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEBORAH MILLER, 60, of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Washington -On Friday, Oct. 14, the National Park Service will close 17th Street between Constitution Avenue NW and Independence Avenue SW from 6 a.m. until approximately 4 p.m. to perform a test installation of the 17th Street levee. Motorists, pedestrians and cyclists should plan alternative routes...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Based on current conditions, the Dare County Control Group has determined that visitors will be allowed access to the Villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, and Buxton, beginning at 7:00 am on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WV - A bill of information charging Donna S. Brown, 65, of Clarington, Ohio with wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. Brown owns Budget Finance Company in New Martinsville, West Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and House Oversight and Government Reform Interior Subcommittee Chairman Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) sent a letter to the U.S. Department...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: On Saturday, October 22 and Sunday, Oct. 23, Cape Cod National Seashore will host a Coast Guard Auxiliary anniversary event at the former Nauset Coast Guard Station at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham. The event is free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Defendant was one of the 104 Individuals federally charged as a result of ATF-Led investigation pursued in support of federal “worst of the worst" anti-violence initiative
