News from September 2016
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening released the following statement regarding the passing of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Fleming, 30, currently incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Gilmer, pled guilty today to assaulting a correctional officer, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Manila Chicago, 39, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court this afternoon. Chicago pled guilty to three charges-possession with intent to distribute marijuana, using, carrying and possessing a firearm in relation to and in furtherance of a drug trafficking felony, and money laundering-in June of 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Moab, Utah-Effective 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, fire restrictions will be lifted for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Park Service on lands in Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan Counties. Restrictions on State of Utah lands in these counties will be lifted effective Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. Monsoon moisture has moderated wildfire behavior, growth and indices; green up of vegetation is occurring in many areas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office will be selling fuelwood permits for personal-use to the public starting Oct. 3, 2016. The cost of the fuelwood permit is $12.00 per cord. Members of the public can purchase a minimum of one cord and up to eight cords per person.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Angelo Santalucia, 50, of Utica, New York was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby to serve a twenty-seven (27) month term of imprisonment, to be followed by four (4) years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. The sentence followed his May 10, 2016 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - The Sloan Canyon Visitor Contact Station will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. starting October 1. The station has been open Fridays-Sundays since May. The Sloan Visitor Contact Station is located at the end of Nawghaw Poa Road near Henderson, Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelmsford man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with recruiting veterans as figurehead owners of a construction company in order to receive specialized government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - An associate of the Vice Lords street gang pleaded guilty today to witness tampering for obtaining and disclosing private health information of Vice Lords shooting victims and victims’ family members to a member of the gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler, announced guilty verdicts against a Detroit, Michigan man, for kidnapping two Indianapolis children from their LaSalle Street home in March of 2015. An Indianapolis jury found John Thomas a/k/a Jay, 39, guilty of two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping after a six-day trial before U.S. District Court Chief Judge Richard L. Young.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: A Miami resident pled guilty for his involvement in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving the sale of a tax refund check.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA--A former correctional officer, Mathew Stone, 28, from Kingsland, Georgia, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court before Chief U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood for accepting a bribe from inmates at Correctional Institution D. Ray James, a privately operated facility which houses federal inmates through a contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, in Folkston, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that $2,116,025 in federal grants were awarded in September 2016 to local law enforcement agencies and community organizations in the Western District of North Carolina. The federal grants were awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) and the Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and National Institute of Justice (NIJ).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident Hampton, Kentucky of has been sentenced in federal court to two years of probation, with 50 hours of community service and computer monitoring on his conviction of one count of a violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§1037(a)(1) and (b)(2)(A), United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: The defendant used city funds for personal expenses.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: The revolutionary NextGen technology called Data Communications (Data Comm) is now operational at Washington Dulles International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: An associate of the Vice Lords street gang pleaded guilty today to witness tampering for obtaining and disclosing private health information of Vice Lords shooting victims and victims’ family members to a member of the gang.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Effective 12:01 am on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, fire restrictions will be lifted for the State of Utah, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Park Service on lands in Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan Counties. Monsoon moisture has moderated wildfire behavior, growth and indices; green up of vegetation is occurring in many areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Castor couple pleaded guilty to charges related to converting a rifle into a machine gun.
