News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: CASPER, Wyo - Death, chivalry and wagon packing will be the focus at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (NHTIC)Saturday, August 12 and Sunday, Aug. 13, during three free interpretative programs, for both children and adults.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Allegedly made false declarations about the destruction of evidence.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Multiple Fires in Park Following Storm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -dorothy d. barney, 58, of Dallas, Texas, pled guilty today before United States District Court Judge Stephen P. Friot to disaster fraud for her claim for federal assistance after the May 2013 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 11, 2017, Dennis A. Bjorklund, 52, a former attorney from Coralville, Iowa, was sentenced by United States Senior District Court Judge Robert Pratt to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to 11 counts of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland Heights woman was sentenced to more than two years in prison for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dion Antwain Kinnear, age 29, and Kristian Torres, age 31, both prisoners at United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg (USP Lewisburg), were indicted separately on Aug. 10, 2017, by a federal grand jury for possessing weapons in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Due to a late season snowstorm with freezing temperatures in southwest Colorado, buds and blossoms on many shrubs and bushes were damaged. As a result, some common food sources for bears, like acorns, chokecherries, and serviceberries, are present in much smaller quantities this summer. The absence of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy today announced that Orono Pharmacy, Inc. and its owner, Ali Aghamoosa, of Orono, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States pursuant to which they will pay $60,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA").
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: New Jersey and Chicago-Area Defendants Convicted as Part of Operation Grand Champion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KERMERIC JOHNSON, age 34, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to use a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Aug. 10, 2017, Lacey M. Nicolino, 34, of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to five months in federal prison for embezzlement by a bank employee, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Nicolino will serve...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China. Of the total 60,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2016/2017 marketing year and 60,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Aug. 11, 2017- Inyo County Sheriff’s Office and National Park Service officials are seeking leads to aid in the search for a missing alpine climber. On Thursday, Aug. 10, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an overdue climber. 55-year-old Tom Fennessy intended to return from the Thunderbolt Peak to Mount Sill Traverse in the Eastern Sierra late in the day on Wednesday, August 9.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. -- The North Dakota State Water Commission and U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation have been granted permission to proceed with efforts to restart construction on the Northwest Area Water Supply (NAWS) project in the wake of a positive ruling Thursday by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Marcos Montoya, Jr., 29, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 66 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways invites the public to attend an open house on Wednesday, Aug. 23, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Methodist Fellowship Hall in Eminence, Missouri. The purpose of this open house is to collect information to aid in the development of a new Long Range Interpretive...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston on firearm and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Two Riviera Beach men were arrested and charged with stealing sea turtle eggs from a St. Lucie County beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH- A Squirrel Hill psychiatrist has been sentenced in federal court to a year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release including 12 months of community confinement, six months of home detention and 500 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution...
