News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to six months in prison and six months home confinement for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the IRS of $119,880 in income taxes over three years, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joe Medina, 38, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for his conviction for enticing a child to travel in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity. Medina will serve an eight-year term of imprisonment to be followed by 15 years of supervised release. Medina will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Public Lands Foundation recognized the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Southwest Resource Advisory Council's (RAC) Tres Rios Master Leasing Plan Area of Interest Working Group with the Landscape Stewardship Certificate of Appreciation. Tres Rios Field Manager Connie Clementson presented the certificate to the group at the last Southwest RAC meeting in Montrose on March 31.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: Due to longer days and warming temperatures, Denali National Park and Preserve Management has determined that there is no longer adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in the 1980 additions to Denali National Park and Preserve that are south of the Alaska Range from the West Fork of the Chulitna River to the Southwest Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Reginald Braddy, age 33, formerly of San Bernardino, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to serve 235 months’ imprisonment (19 years and 7 months) for large-scale methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin trafficking in Monroe County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Howieson, 56, of Costilla, N.M., pled guilty this afternoon in Albuquerque, N.M., to a federal carjacking charge. The plea agreement recommends that Howieson be sentenced to a term of imprisonment within the range of 12 to 36 months followed by a period of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: Salem, Ore.-Road improvements will limit road access in a few areas around the Willamette Valley this spring and summer. Visitors may encounter short delays with some restricted road access.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: KICKING OFF THE LATEST EXPRESSION OF FIND YOUR PARK/ENCUENTRA TU PARQUE, THE ONGOING CONTENT SERIES WILL FEATURE UNEXPECTED STORIES ANCHORED IN NATIONAL PARKS, FEATURING ACTOR/RECORDING ARTIST JORDAN FISHER AT HAMILTON GRANGE NATIONAL MEMORIAL.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TAHIR SHAHZAD, 33, of Harrison, New York, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of unlawful use of food stamp benefits and one count of conspiracy to commit food stamp fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting U.S. Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Ruben Garcia, 32, an inmate at FCI-Berlin was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to assaulting another inmate with a homemade weapon. Garcia’s sentence will be consecutive to the current 151 month sentence he is serving for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Angelia Zwick, also known as Angelia Strunk, 46, of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to charges related to an embezzlement scheme that defrauded her employer. Specifically, she pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of willfully filing a false income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: The park in cooperation with the Morongo Basin Healthcare District is inviting the public to come out and Take A Hike with park superintendent David Smith at 9am on April 23. Hikers will meet up and depart from Twin Tanks backcountry board, (located between Bell and White Tank campgrounds) and proceed on an approximately two mile loop.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeks Information on a Bank Robbery in Lauderdale Lakes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant admits illegally possessing hundreds of pieces of mail stolen from the Elkview area.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today made available for public review and comment its plan to reduce overabundant deer populations that threaten the natural beauty and historic scenery at Harpers Ferry and Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Canal National Historical Parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Matthew Joel Torres, 27, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 35 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who was among a group arrested for distributing heroin in Huntington in 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Damond Idress Robinson-King, 23, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
