News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Tracey D. Montaño, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation Division, and Wanda C. Merritt, Field Office Director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Defendant Voided Sales At Choctaw Travel Plaza And Kept Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Following a multi-jurisdictional investigation into drug trafficking in Pittsburgh, Penn., 14 individuals have been indicted in the Western District of Pennsylvania for violating federal narcotics laws. The multi-agency Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation revealed a...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender and Assaulting, Opposing, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that three Milwaukee men were charged with armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. The men are identified as: Elijah McGee, (age: 20), London Johnson, (age: 20), and Robert R. Crumble, Jr., (age: 20).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Olympic 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 federally managed lands and waters. Visit www.EveryKidinaPark.gov to download the pass and obtain more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: G. F. Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jose Alberto Sandoval Moya, of Douglas, Georgia was sentenced to serve 240 months in Federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine weighing more than 50 grams. The sentence was handed down by Senior United States District Judge W. Louis Sands, Sr. on Sept. 1, 2016 in Albany.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Louisiana Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Engaging in Child Exploitation Enterprise and Production of Child Pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: The National Historic Landmark Roebling Bridge (Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct) will undergo significant maintenance work beginning the week of Sept. 27, 2016. The National Park Service at Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River (NPS), in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), invite you to attend an informational meeting about this project.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 5.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Tim Rains 406-888-5838. MEDIA16-47. WEST GLACIER, MONT -On Tuesday, Aug. 30, two hikers slipped and fell while descending the east face of Mount Jackson. One survived the fall by self-arresting on a snowfield sustaining minor injuries. Unable to locate his fallen companion, he hiked back to Gunsight...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Following a one-day trial before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, a federal jury deliberated ninety minutes yesterday to convict Juan Pasillas, 37, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Antonio Ballesteros 26, of Terrell, Texas, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is open Thursday, with partial closures in place as Hurricane Lester nears, and Hurricane Madeline, now downgraded as a tropical storm, passes south of Hawai'i Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Theodore Pena, 66, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 12 months in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing oxycodone, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered that Pena forfeit $3,200 in drug proceeds. Pena pleaded guilty on Nov. 25, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Sixteen defendants have been charged in federal court with participating in a massive insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Abner Joe, 54, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was arraigned today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on an indictment charging him with assaulting a federal officer. Joe entered a not guilty plea to the indictment and was released pending trial to a halfway house and will be under pretrial supervision and other conditions of release.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA -Death Valley 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer,” was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the United Mexican States established a formal partnership today to protect workers from discrimination based on citizenship, immigration status and national origin. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice ...
