News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Tadpoles were emergency-airlifted from remote park locations and transported to Oakland Zoo and San Francisco Zoo to be cleared of disease, raised into frogs, immunized, and released back into their natal lakes in hopes of restoring their dwindling populations in the wild.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a former Homer Police officer pleaded guilty to his role in a vehicle fraud theft and insurance scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Aquabeus Demond Moore, 37, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced today to thirty-two years and one day by the Honorable Richard M. Gergel in Charleston, South Carolina. Moore was convicted of five separate counts, one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: An Eastern Iowa businessman who failed to pay over employment taxes and violated the Clean Water Act by causing ethanol to be discharged into a tributary of the Maquoketa River, was sentenced today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to 15 months in federal prison, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Sean R. Berry of the Northern District of Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 29, 2017, Leroy Lynell Grandberry, 30, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 36 months in prison for felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Grandberry was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump delivered a speech about tax reform in Springfield, Missouri...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - VANESSA L. POLLARD, of Mustang, Oklahoma, pled guilty today to wire fraud and signing a false federal income tax return in connection with a $1.3 million embezzlement from an insurance agency in Canadian County, Oklahoma, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 30, 2017, Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced William Boom to two years of probation, a $5,000 fine, 80 hours of community service, and a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund for making false statements to a federal grand jury, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Other two coconspirators also receive lengthy prison sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA -- Calvin Lewis, 38, from Brunswick, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week by United States District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 25 years in federal prison for his role in a violent gang and drug trafficking organization that operated in Southeast Georgia and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Shannon Bobrosky Admits to Sexually Exploiting a Minor, Distributing Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man is facing federal firearms charges for allegedly dealing ammunition and gun accessories on the city’s South Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 30, 2017, Eugene Williams, Jr., 22, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 70 months in prison for felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Williams will serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment. The firearm involved in the offense was forfeited.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson and Ranking Member Claire McCaskill are requesting that the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, Treasury, and Commerce submit to the Committee the required reports from President Trump’s Executive Order on cybersecurity.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Rawlins Field Office will host the 2017 Industry/Government conference on Wednesday, Sept. 13, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Jeffrey Memorial Community Center, 315 W. Pine Street, Rawlins, Wyo.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking public input on a potential new organizational structure for the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science. NIST and the Department of Justice (DOJ) formed OSAC...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Larry Gilliam, age 36, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was indicted on Aug. 29, 2017, by a federal grand jury for carefentail and heroin trafficking as well as possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Xanterra Parks and Resorts has decided to close Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park for the season Wednesday, August 30 due to air quality concerns from the Sprague Fire and other regional fires. The Sprague Fire is located approximately two miles from the Lake McDonald Lodge area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Officer Allegedly Robbed Victims and Filed False Affidavits.
