News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: New York Man Charged With Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will be the keynote speaker for the opening session of the 2017 annual Conference on Civil Rights and Law Enforcement sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Birmingham Division, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Thailand Ministry of Justice’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Aug. 24, to establish cooperation in combating transnational crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Iulian Petre, also known as Julian Petre, 50, of Waterville, was convicted yesterday of illegally receiving and shipping firearms following a jury trial in U.S. District Court. He was found not guilty of smuggling and money laundering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Gallegos, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court to 57 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on an armed bank robbery charge.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Beginning Friday, Sept. 1, Yellowstone will accept applications to the 2017-2018 winter season lottery for permits to snowmobile in the park without the presence of a commercial guide. The park requires all non-commercially guided snowmobile groups that enter the park to have a permit.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: National Park Service researchers have added two new mountain lion kittens to a long-running study of the species in and around the Santa Monica Mountains. The siblings, a female and male named P-59 and P-60, were found by National Park Service and California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists earlier this month in the central portion of the range.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of bank and wire fraud conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Sea Isle City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for operating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme through his former payroll company, Innovative Payroll Services LLC (IPS), Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Mark Eugene Timperley, 20, of Indianapolis, Indiana, pleaded guilty yesterday in the United States District Court to possession of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Calvert J. Drummond, Jr., age 34, of Greenville, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain, of Anderson, accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Due to potential tropical storm conditions, all visitor services and facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial will be temporarily suspended starting at 12:00 pm on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY- A traditional cattle drive will take place in Grand Teton National Park early Saturday, September 2. While the cattle drive is underway, a two-mile stretch of US Highway 26/89/191 will be temporarily closed to vehicle traffic from Moran Junction to the Elk Ranch Flats area that lies just one...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BYRON RIVERA, 27, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Starting immediately, fuel services for premium unleaded fuel only have been restored at the Halls Crossing Marina fuel dock.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The owner of Charlotte-area scrap metal business pleaded guilty to tax evasion today, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Tony Marks, 47, of Matthews, N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler and admitted to concealing from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) personal earnings derived from his business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Thomas Herris Sigler, III, 46, and William A. Dennis, 56, to serve 33 and 21 months incarceration, respectively. Sigler and Dennis both pleaded guilty to civil rights violations for their roles in attacking and intimidating an interracial...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Aug. 29, 2017, Carson Nathan Martin, 38, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve 345 months in prison for producing child pornography. Following his release from prison, Martin will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for the rest of his life and required to register with the sex offender registry in any state in which he resides, works, or attends school.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. -The St. Mary Campground, located on the east side of the park, is temporarily available to hard-sided camping only due to bear activity. The hiker/biker sites will also be temporarily unavailable at this campground due to the change.
