News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 5,891,315 visitors to the Natchez Trace Parkway in 2016 spent $142 million in the communities near the Parkway, which supported 1,907 jobs in the local areas. Because the Parkway extends through three states, the NPS has calculated that 80% of the spending is in Mississippi, 13% in Tennessee, and 7% in Alabama.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Utah Ranks Highest for Employment Growth Rate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced eight individuals for their roles in a money laundering scheme. They were indicted in May 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Charges Allege Sex With Inmates And Civil Rights Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND - Marco Antonio Ochoa, aka Alfredo Ochoa Valladares, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence follows a guilty plea entered Jan. 30, 2017, in which Ochoa admitted he participated in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Weymouth man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with possessing assault-style weapons and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Searcy Man Sentenced to 262 Months' Imprisonment for Production of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut financial advisor was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for obstructing a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation by attempting to conceal secret and improper referral payments he made in order to secure the business of a wealthy client.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Scott Hartvig McDowell, 49, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve four years in prison for his conviction for bank robbery, followed by three years of supervised release. McDowell was also ordered to pay $2,700 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has released a proposed plan amendment and environmental assessment as the next step in considering a right-of-way grant to construct 12 miles of transmission generator tie (gen-tie) line and a water pipeline across public lands. The plan amendment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Vashawn Dawkins, age 24, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months and one day in prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A former postal carrier pleaded guilty this week in federal court to accepting a bribe to deliver marijuana in the U.S. mail as part of a conspiracy to distribute the drug, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and U.S. Postal Inspector Frank Dyer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mill Creek, Washington, man convicted of Unauthorized Access Device was sentenced on April 11, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Point Reyes Station, CA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 2.4 million visitors to Point Reyes National Seashore in 2016 spent $107 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,361 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $135 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Tennessee Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Federal Corruption and Civil Rights Charges.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A new National Park Service report shows that nearly 42 million visitors to national parks in California spent more than $2 billion in the state in 2016. That spending resulted in 289,000 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of more than $2.9 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A three-count indictment was unsealed today charging Jabaar Tindell (41) and Marc Bredell (28), both of Philadelphia, with theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee, knowing possession of stolen firearms, and, as against Tindell only, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today announced a hearing for Thursday, April 27, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Outdoor Recreation: Vast Impact of the Great Outdoors."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Jury Convicts Federal Inmate of Assaulting Fellow Inmate in Lassen County Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Organization operated out of El Rancho Market in Aurora, Colorado.
