News published on Federal Newswire in September 2016

News from September 2016


U.S. Attorney’s Office to Host Conference on Large-Scale Incidents Focusing on the San Bernardino Terror Attack and Victim-Centered Response

News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States Attorney’s Office is hosting a conference next week that will bring together first responders and experts who will provide their insights on last year’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino and important lessons learned that can be applied to other large-scale incidents.


St. Francis Man Charged with Repeated Harassing Communications and Stalking

News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Obscene Telephone Call, Anonymous Telephone Call, Repeated Telephone Call, Repeated Harassing Communications, and Stalking.


District Man Pleads Guilty to Series of Sexual Attacks Against Women in Southeast Washington

News Release: Defendant, Already Incarcerated for 22 Years for Similar Attacks, Faces Additional 40 Years for These Crimes.


Rochester Man Sentenced On Gun Charge

News Release: The sentencing is the result of an investigation on the part of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Charlie J. Patterson, New York Field Division, and the Rochester Police Department, under the direction of Chief Michael Ciminelli.


Outer Banks Group to Temporarily Suspend Visitor Services Ahead of Tropical Storm Hermine (Manteo)

News Release: Due to potential impacts from Tropical Storm Hermine, visitor services and facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial, will be temporarily suspended. Starting on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, the following are in effect.


Fort Worth Man Sentenced to 16 Months in Federal Prison for Making a False Statement in a Bankruptcy Case

News Release: Defendant Also Fraudulently Diverted More Than $480,000 in Loan Proceeds, Intended to Construct a Movie Theatre Restaurant, for His Personal Benefit.


Tropical Storm Hermine Closures at Cape Lookout National Seashore (Advisory 4)

News Release: Harkers Island, NC -The National Weather Service has issued tropical storm watch for North Carolina from Oregon Inlet South, including Cape Lookout National Seashore. The area remains under a significant heavy rainfall threat. Heavy rainfall and possible flash flooding could begin as early as Friday...


Former DPW Employee Sentenced To Federal Prison For Two Separate Schemes To Defraud The City Of Baltimore

News Release: City Lost Over $7 Million in Two Longstanding Schemes in Which Commercial Trash Haulers Paid Bribes to Dump Trash Without Paying Disposal Fees and Employees Stole Salvageable Metals.


Former DPW Employee Sentenced to Federal Prison for Two Separate Schemes to Defraud the City of Baltimore

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Charles Dennis Bolden, Sr., age 69, of Baltimore, a former employee at the Quarantine Road Landfill (Landfill), today to 15 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit two separate...


La Joya Man Convicted of Pointing Laser at CBP Helicopter

News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 57-year old La Joya man has entered a guilty plea to pointing a laser at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


Mellette County Man Sentenced to 33 Months for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine

News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mellette County, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on August 4, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.


La Joya Man Convicted of Pointing Laser at CBP Helicopter

News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 57-year old La Joya man has entered a guilty plea to pointing a laser at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


Kris Kirby Named Superintendent of Manhattan Project NHP

News Release: Kris Kirby, a 20-year career employee of the National Park Service, has been selected as the new superintendent of Manhattan Project National Historical Park according to Sue Masica, Intermountain Region Director. Kris will assume her new duties Oct. 16, 2016.


Crews Contain Green Fire in Dinosaur National Monument

News Release: Dinosaur, Colorado & Jensen, Utah - Fire crews have contained the fire that started Thursday afternoon south west of the Green River Campground on the Utah side of the monument. The Green Fire was reported at approximately 4:30 pm on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. The cause of the fire is under investigation.


Wyden, Pallone Question Mylan Payments to Medicaid for EpiPens

News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell requesting additional information regarding EpiPen’s classification and...


EKIP 2nd Year

News Release: Mineral, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park encourages all fourth graders to visit the park for free this year as part of the Every Kid in a Park program. The program gives fourth grade students, and those accompanying them, free access to more than 2,000 public lands and waters nationwide for a year. Visit www.EveryKidinaPark.gov to download the pass and get more information.


Founders of Not for Profit Organization Convicted of Stealing United Nations Grant Funds

News Release: "As established by today's verdicts, these defendants stole UN Funds intended to promote good works in a part of the world that desperately needed assistance, said U.S. Attorney Hochul. "The facts that the defendants took such money to pay personal bills makes these convictions particularly noteworthy.".


Cedar Rapids Recidivist Felon Sentenced to Maximum Prison Term

News Release: A Cedar Rapids man with an extensive criminal history who fired shots into the air in a residential neighborhood using a stolen handgun was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison.


Statement by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez on Fatal Shooting of Alamogordo Police Officer Clint Corvinus

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez issued the following statement upon learning of the fatal shooting of Officer Clint Corvinus, 33, of the Alamogordo Police Department.


Vandalism to Historic 1907 Keeper’s Quarters

News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -On the morning of Aug. 29, 2016, Cape Lookout National Seashore personnel received a report from park volunteers that the historic 1907 Keeper's Quarters had been vandalized. This home sits along the waters of Cape Lookout Bight and is considered part of the historic district and was original to the Light Station. The damage occurred between the dates of Aug. 27, 2016 and Aug. 28, 2016.