News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Grand Teton National Park managers expect Aug. 21, 2017-the day of the Total Solar Eclipse Across America-to be the busiest single day in the history of the park. Visitors to the park on eclipse day can ensure a successful viewing experience by developing a plan and heeding a few simple guidelines.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Bruce A. Harvey Admits to Transporting Minors for Sexual Activity on Multiple Occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Three methamphetamine dealers from South Charleston pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Carl “Yogi" Clark, 40, Jamie Harmon, 38, and Holly Doub, 34, each entered guilty pleas to distribution of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park is opening its Licensed Battlefield Guide Examination process, park officials have announced. The written exam, the first part of an intensive, multi-tiered process, will be given on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017, at the Harrisburg Area Community College/Gettysburg Campus from 9 am until 4:30 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Robert H. Norman, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi; Derrick L. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General; Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shane Grafman, 33, of Phoenix, AZ, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine and 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, and money laundering conspiracy, was sentenced to 108 months by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lawrence Hong, 21, of Canada, who was convicted of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance, was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man involved with others in distributing heroin in 2016 was sentenced today to a year and three months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Philip Reed Starkey, 48, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Salem, Ore.- Beginning at 12:01am on Monday, Aug. 14, campfires and open source flames will be prohibited throughout the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Cascades and Upper Willamette Field Office areas of the Northwest Oregon District. Extremely dry conditions in conjunction with current and expected weather forecasts have elevated the potential risk of wildfire starts throughout the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Jerry Drake Varnell, 23, of Sayre, Oklahoma, was arrested early Saturday morning in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at BancFirst, 101 N. Broadway, in downtown Oklahoma City, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Percy Jackson, 29, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to theft of mail by a postal employee before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ramsey Jeries Farraj, 41, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for conspiring with his former business partner, Majed Bashir “Mike" Akroush, 49, also of Bakersfield, to structure $4,204,965 obtained from the sale of smokeable synthetic drugs, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan Heesch (619) 546-9442.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Tulsa minister was sentenced Monday to 57 months in federal for accessing with intent to view child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Portland, Ore. - On Aug. 21, 2017 a total solar eclipse will cross the nation beginning on Oregon’s coast at about 9 a.m. and reach totality between 10:15 and 10:25 a.m. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are anticipated to be visiting BLM managed sites along the Path of Totality such as Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, as well as various dispersed camping areas.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - A multi-million dollar project to rehabilitate the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, commonly referred to as the Iwo Jima Memorial, and improve surrounding parkland begins Tuesday, Aug. 15, temporarily limiting some public access through February 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced George Pena (42, Edinburg, TX) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. He pleaded guilty on May 24, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: The first big case involving fingerprint evidence in the United States was the murder trial of Thomas Jennings in Chicago in 1911. Jennings had broken into a home in the middle of the night and, when discovered by the homeowner, shot the man dead. He was convicted based on fingerprints left at the crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Two Portsmouth Men Wanted by the FBI, HSI on Heroin, Fentanyl Distribution Charge.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Elaine Duke recently saw firsthand how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) partners successfully with other federal law enforcement components when she visited Buffalo, New York on June 29.
