News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that LaTanya Notice, 42, of Mt. Vernon, NY, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo, to the crime of making a false statement to a federal officer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Murfreesboro, TN - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 346, 213 visitors to Stones River National Battlefield in 2016 spent $20.2 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 322 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $27.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Federal charges have been filed against three Mexican nationals who were allegedly holding five illegal aliens at a residence in Splendora, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Apperson, 35, of Reva, Virginia, was sentenced today to 88 months of imprisonment on a federal drug trafficking charge relating to the distribution of heroin and cocaine in Culpeper County, Virginia. He is among 14 people charged with federal crimes following an investigation by a law enforcement task force of a narcotics trafficking ring that operated in places including New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is moving forward on a commitment to settle a debt owed to the State of Montana for well over a century.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - There will be a press conference held on Monday, April 24, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. at the United States Attorney’s Office in the federal courthouse, 111 Seventh Ave SE, in Cedar Rapids. Acting U.S. Attorney Sean R. Berry and representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Federal inmate Justin B. Stinson has pleaded guilty to escaping from the United States Penitentiary minimum security camp in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Deonte R. Dickey, 19, of Cincinnati with charges related to the distribution of fentanyl in an indictment returned here today. Specifically, Dickey is charged with six counts of distributing heroin and fentanyl - one count including an overdose death - and one count of distributing cocaine.
By State Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2016 shows that 364,808 park visitors spent an estimated $22.4 million in local gateway regions while visiting Channel Islands National Park. That spending supported 315 jobs and contributed $31.9 million to our local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michael Ron David Kadar, 18, who holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship and who was recently arrested in Israel, was charged today with making threatening calls to Jewish Community Centers in Florida, conveying false information to police dispatch regarding harm to private residents...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt seeking information regarding the process by which EPA closes out its grants.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt seeking information regarding the process by which EPA closes out its grants.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Washington - The Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management will hold a hearing next to examine how to protect infrastructure against future disaster damage, lower overall disaster costs, and identify challenges facing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in responding to, recovering from, and mitigating against natural and manmade disasters.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Dear Ms. Dillon: On Jan. 11, 2017, then President-elect Trump held a press conference to announce plans relating to the administration of his business interests during his presidency.[1] At that time, you announced a plan to address the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. Specifically, you said: ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: For Producing Child Pornography. HAMMOND - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana Clifford D. Johnson announced that Mark Nagel, 37, of Hammond, Indiana was sentenced before Hammond District Court Judge Rudy Lozano after pleading guilty to two counts of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Tuesday, April 18, 2017, United States District Court Juan Pérez-Giménez sentenced thirty-eight (38) year-old Edison José Díaz-Carreras, to ten (10) years in prison for attempting to coerce and entice an individual whom he believed to be a thirteen (13) year-old female minor but was in fact an undercover agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paterson, New Jersey, man appeared in federal court today to face charges that he attempted to rob a Paterson residence while dressed in a Passaic County Sheriff’s uniform and wielding a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a verdict late yesterday afternoon finding Jeffrey Antonio guilty of second-degree murder. The verdict was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge William McClure of District IV of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales, III.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: VICKSBURG, MS - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 508,915 visitors to Vicksburg National Military Park in 2016 spent $29,765,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 488 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $39,140,700.
