News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Reno, Nev.--The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Resource Advisory Councils (RAC) Black Rock National Conservation Area subcommittee scheduled for Friday, May 12 at the BLM Nevada State Office has been postponed. The meeting will be rescheduled at a future date.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Salvadoran and member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, wanted for aggravated homicide, was arrested Wednesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: MIAMI - EM is joining federal agencies, national research laboratories, industry and academia for a seminar to explore integrating robotic systems into hazardous work environments to help workers accomplish high-risk tasks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Kelly Schneider, 23, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 336 months in prison, five years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine based on his guilty plea to violently assaulting Steven Nelson because he was a gay man, resulting in Mr. Nelson’s death, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr., for the District of Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina------ The United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the District of South Carolina works with numerous state, federal, not-for-profit, and private entities on crime prevention and reentry. These groups and agencies are using their expertise and energy to eradicate crime before it happens.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Harry W. “Buck" Buchanan, 63, of Allentown, PA, pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of willfully failing to file tax returns, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. According to the information, Buchanan, who operated Harry Buchanan IV MD PC, failed to file federal tax returns in 2009 and 2010, although his income substantially exceeded the minimum income establishing the requirement to file.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND- Shawan I. Spragans and Merl J. Simpson were sentenced in federal court in Oakland today to serve prison sentences of 23 years and 20 years, respectively, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The defendants...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: President Abraham Lincoln’s first handwritten draft of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a historic document in the collection of the New York State Library and New York State Education Department (NYSED), will soon be encased in a new high-tech “home." Like so many of the nation’s most precious historical documents, including the Charters of Freedom, it will be protected by an encasement system custom-designed and constructed by NIST.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A man from Mexico was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for conspiring to harbor illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners are...
By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after participating in a meeting with bipartisan House leaders and Argentine President Mauricio Macri...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - At the onset of the Cold War, “Site Number 5" in South Carolina was one of 114 locations in the U.S. considered for the production of weapons-grade plutonium, tritium and other materials.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Rockland County, New York, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to rob a Hawthorne, New Jersey, bar, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRANDON SMITH, age 29, and CHELSIE WILLIAMS, age 23, both of New Orleans, were charged today in a six-count Indictment. The Indictment charges SMITH and WILLIAMS with making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6), and being felons in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Stacey D. Haynes (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners are holding another Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, April 29, from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M., at over 5,000 sites around the country, including more than 270 sites in Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Singapore Man Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for Plot Involving Exports to Iran of U.S. Components.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: A Dubuque gang member was sentenced on Wednesday to more than two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 53-year-old Houston-area contractor, set for sentencing in a $16 million loan fraud scheme, has now been charged with failing to appear, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA). Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Hearing on “Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Mitigating Damage and Recovering Quickly from Disasters". April 27, 2017. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). The purpose of...
