News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: NEWNAN, Ga. - Jeremy Fluellen, Chelsey Mayweather, Tramaine Tucker, and Christopher Williams have been convicted by a federal jury after a week-long trial, on fifteen counts of cocaine and methamphetamine distribution, and seven counts of extortion under color of official right. Prior to trial, 44 other corrections officers pleaded guilty in a series of cases related to this investigation at Georgia Department of Corrections institutions across the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Paul A. Groves, 36, of Canfield, Ohio, with conspiring with others to illegally buy and resell military-grade semi-automatic firearms in a superseding indictment returned here yesterday.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on President Trump's executive order that instructs the Department of the Interior to review and potentially revise the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (Five-Year Plan), finalized in November 2016, to open Arctic waters and parts of the Atlantic Ocean to increased oil and gas drilling.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: The search for the person whose canoe capsized in the Buffalo River Wednesday is winding down for the third day without discovery. Based on the forecast of flood conditions, the operation will be suspended until river conditions become safe again.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. Attorney John Parker wants to encourage the public to participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA -Patrick Shawn Kelley, 55, of Panama City Beach, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison and $210,397 in restitution to the IRS, after pleading guilty to tax evasion in October 2016. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chaka Al-Fatah, 37, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to seven years in prison for a federal firearms charge related to a narcotics conspiracy that operated in the District of Columbia and Maryland. He was among 16 people to plead guilty following an investigation that led to the seizure of kilograms of narcotics, firearms, and cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Santonio Dwayne Ramsey, age 26, of Appling, Georgia was sentenced in federal court after earlier pleading guilty to escape, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 751(a). Senior United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, of Columbia, sentenced Ramsey to 10 months imprisonment and a $100 special assessment fee.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke with the National Park Service today announced the awarding of $26.9 million in historic preservation grants to every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the U.S. territories, and partnering nations, in addition to $5.7 million in grants to more than 160 tribes for cultural and heritage preservation projects on their tribal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Lewis Charles Landreth, age 32, of Greenville, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville, to felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g). United States District Judge Bruce...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office will temporarily close 15 dispersed campsites along Bear Trap Road North and South May 15-25 as crews upgrade and repair parking lots to improve visitors’ recreation experience as well as reduce the potential for erosion impacts to cultural and natural...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.6 million visitors to Arches National Park in 2016 spent $188.8 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 3,100 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $251.6 million (a 16.3% increase from 2015 and an 82.3 % increase since 2012).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Recommends Prison Sentence within Range of 93 to 101 Months, which must be Served Consecutive to 15 of the 16 Years Torrez is Serving for Related State Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Christopher Bohnenkamp Guilty of Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers at EM’s Hanford Site recently completed a major risk reduction effort at the facility that stores a significant portion of the site’s radioactivity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: DEA’s Denver Field Division teams with Law Enforcement and Community Organizations to provide safe, easy to access disposal of old prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Indiana University Health and HealthNet to Pay $18 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Claims.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today a $199,814.31 award to Asymmetric Technologies, LLC, to enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Small Unmanned Aircraft ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today a $152,512 award to Planck Aerosystems Inc., to enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 27, 2017) – Secretary Sonny Perdue hosted a bipartisan breakfast with agriculture leaders from the U.S. House of Representatives today at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The breakfast marks the first time Secretary Perdue has met with the leaders, which include: Representatives ...
