News from September 2016
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Beach Drive will close 24/7 in both directions on Sept. 22, from Tilden Street NW to where Beach Drive begins at Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway below the Omni Shoreham hotel. Stay up to date by visiting go.nps.gov/beachdrive and signing up for Nixle alerts by texting BEACHDRIVE to 888777.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: TWIN FALLS, ID - Twin Falls District (Bureau of Land Management) and the Sawtooth National Forest will remove the Stage One Fire Restrictions in areas of Twin Falls, Cassia, Camas, Blaine, and parts of Custer counties located in Zones One and Four. Zone One includes the area north of Highway 20 into...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Made False Statements to Grand Jury During an Arson-Homicide Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Dayshawn Brazier, 25, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 140 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Rep. Amata Radewagen’s (R-American Samoa, At-large) H.R. 4576, Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act, by voice vote. The bill implements U.S. participation in two international fishery treaties that the U.S. helped negotiate, the Convention...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man pleaded guilty today for his role in a California-to-West Virginia methamphetamine conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Brian Ashby, 38, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Slavitt: The billions of dollars lost to Medicare fraud each year underscore the importance of stopping potentially fraudulent payments before they are made. Historically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has paid claims and then, after the fact, investigated whether the claims...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 11: 0 a.m. Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Hearing on: Exploring Federal Diversity Jurisdiction. Witnesses: * Mr. Charles Cooper, Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC. * Ms. Joanna Shepherd, Professor of Law, Emory Law School. * Mr. Ronald Weich, Professor of Law, University ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Henderson, Nevada, man today admitted his role in a stock market manipulation scheme that artificially inflated the stock price of four publicly traded companies through manipulative trading and other fraudulent means, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Utah State University (USU) graduate student Michael Orr rummaged through drawer after drawer at the National Pollinating Insects Collection until his doggedness paid off. Inside one drawer, he spied what he'd been seeking: specimens of an unnamed, fuzzy gray bee and their nests-carved into chunks of sandstone.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sheldon Harris, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the Hobbs Act by robbing two Albuquerque-area fast food restaurants and to brandishing a firearm during the robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Andre Dwight Stewart to eight years and five months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft related to the filing of false federal income tax returns using stolen identities. The Court also ordered him to pay $230,005 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, which are the traceable proceeds to his offenses. Stewart pleaded guilty on June 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man and woman who participated in a multistate drug ring pleaded guilty today to federal crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Parker Wyatt Mays, 27, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Tanisha Lynette Wooding, 37, entered her guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Tarkio R-1 High School student who brought a loaded semi-automatic pistol to school, causing the school to be locked down, pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a machine gun that was found at his residence.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a reference material with certified amounts of nicotine and two carcinogens to help ensure accurate testing of commercial tobacco filler-the blended tobacco found in cigarettes.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: CLEVELAND, Ohio - Just weeks after a machine operator suffered third-degree chemical burns to his left foot after falling into an acid-etching tank heated to more than 170 degrees, federal inspectors posted an imminent danger notice at A-Brite Plating when they found workers climbing atop the same acid tanks at the Cleveland auto parts plating facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Djuan Levell Washington, 28, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), is scheduled to mark up the following measures at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016 in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2016
News Release: NASHVILLE - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in conjunction with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), Tennessee State Fire Marshal’s Office and the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) served a federal arrest warrant on Mitchell Oakes. Oakes was arrested without incident in the Eastern Judicial District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On September 8, 2016, Timothy Ryan Zollman, 31, of Van Wert, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to 120 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for committing two counts of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.