News from April 2017
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing on the crisis in Libya, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today warned of infighting among rival militias within the country that continues to foster instability and pose risks for U.S. national security interests.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Joaquin Alvarez-Rodriguez (29, Puerto Rico), Jose Polanco (29, Orlando), Quenten Desue (31, Orlando), Antonio Jackson (31, Orlando), and Daron Lorenza Jones (30, Orlando) with conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jahkel Lamar, age 29, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on April 24, 2017, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to possession with intent to distribute more than 28 grams of crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: NIST scientists have developed a novel automated probe system for evaluating the performance of computer components designed to run 100 times faster than today’s best supercomputers and consume as little as 1/1000th the energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced DAVON KELLY BENNETT, 42 years of age from Elizabeth City, N.C., to 240 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 33-year-old man who resided in Palmetto, Florida, and Pasadena, Texas, has been ordered to federal prison for trafficking narcotics from Mexico through Brownsville to Florida, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit, and Acting U.S. Attorney...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: LINCOLN, Neb. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Port Angeles, WA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3,390,221 visitors to Olympic National Park in 2016 spent $286,786,300 in communities near the park. That spending supported 3,842 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $398,689,900.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 33-year-old man who resided in Palmetto, Florida, and Pasadena, Texas, has been ordered to federal prison for trafficking narcotics from Mexico through Brownsville to Florida, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury convicted Oscar Sosa Oct. 7, 2016, of conspiring to possess and possessing with intent to distribute three kilograms of methamphetamine following a five-day trial and approximately three hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - On April 24, 2017, Khyree Gardenhire was convicted of conspiring to engage in heroin trafficking, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: DALLAS -Nemelee Liwanag Jiao, 47, of Irving, Texas, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Dallas, Texas, on two counts of wire fraud for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 35 investors more than $1,000,000, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler today announced criminal charges in a cyber-stalking case in which Shamonique Ferguson, a 21 year old from North Carolina, engaged in a pattern of internet threats that involved three Indiana University campuses, Ivy Tech, a business in Fishers, and...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Gaffney, SC - The Southern Campaign for the American Revolution Parks Group will host three veteran job fairs for several open seasonal positions. In keeping with the National Park Service’s commitment to increasing the employment of veterans within the workforce, veterans interested in the seasonal employment opportunities listed below are encouraged to attend one or more of these job fairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-The Phoenix Division of the FBI is conducting an investigation into the activities of the now closed Mamma Mia’s Pizza restaurants located at 3937 E. Indian School Road and 809 E. Indian School Road in Phoenix, AZ.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- Releases from Gray Reef Reservoir to the North Platte River are currently at 2,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). Based on current operation projections, Gray Reef releases will increase but are not expected to exceed flows of 4,000 cfs during the months of May, June, and, July.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: CLEVELAND - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country on Friday, April 28.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Pipestone, MN - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 67,489 visitors to Pipestone National Monument in 2016 spent $ 3,945,900 in communities near the park. That spending supported 66 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $5,037,500.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - Maggie Remington and Elizabeth Cadigan have been selected by the Bureau of Land Management Winnemucca District (BLM) and Friends of Black Rock High Rock (FBR) for this year’s Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area (NCA) Artist in Residence (AiR) program. This program is sponsored by the BLM in partnership with FBR.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: MOBILE, AL- The Acting United States Attorney, Steve Butler, announces that Graciela Mora-Demoran was sentenced in United States District Court, Senior Judge Callie V. Granade, on April 24, 2017 to fifty-one months confinement for trafficking in methamphetamine and cocaine. The sentence was structured to give the defendant credit for twenty one months already spent in state custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Tad Cummins, 50, of Columbia, Tenn., appeared before a U.S. Magistrate in Sacramento, California today and was ordered to be held in custody, pending his subsequent transfer to the Middle District of Tennessee, to await trial on the charge of transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in unlawful sexual activity, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
