News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: The Tallgrass Artist Residency is now accepting applications from artists currently living in a place within the ecological boundaries of the North American prairie to participate in the 2017 residency program. The deadline is March 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found ANDREW ORECKINTO, 52, of Matawan, New Jersey, guilty of stealing more than 8,000 cartons of cigarettes from a Wethersfield warehouse in March 2011.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the Venezuelan Vice President and his primary frontman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man, who sold methamphetamine and illegally possessed a shotgun after having been previously convicted of a felony, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two defendants appeared in federal court today for drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Gerald Harris, 23, of Huntington, was sentenced to eight months in federal prison for distribution of heroin. In a separate prosecution, Ashara Mayes, 29, of Decatur, Georgia, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Gallegos, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to aiding and abetting the armed robbery of an Albuquerque-area bank.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Beginning, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument will host a series of Plains Indian Village Cultural Weekends, “Alibates Fingerprints", the third weekend of each month through September 17. These events will trace the legacy of people at Alibates and examine their unique...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced that two members of a large, multi-state drug trafficking organization were sentenced on Thursday, February 9, 2017, in federal district court. Mister T. Crocker, age 36 from Columbia, and Lashaun Fair, age 37 from Anderson, were...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Gallegos, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to aiding and abetting the armed robbery of an Albuquerque-area bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Michael S. Putman, 50, of Belleville, was charged on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, with a one-count criminal complaint of Bank Robbery. The alleged violation took place on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in Collinsville, Madison County, Illinois. Today, the Court ordered that Putman be detained without bond pending indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Kevin Kenard Howard of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to serve 30 months in federal prison and pay $1,850,000 in restitution following his guilty plea in May 2016 to a felony offense stemming from his work with co-defendant Ellis Wamsley, IV and the FAIM Economic Development Corporation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Putnam County man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleaded guilty today to a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Scott Allen Forloine II, 36, of Scott Depot, entered his guilty plea to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man who administered an online group that shared images and videos of toddlers being sexually assaulted pleaded guilty today, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found ANDREW ORECKINTO, 52, of Matawan, New Jersey, guilty of stealing more than 8,000 cartons of cigarettes from a Wethersfield warehouse in March 2011.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2017
Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Kanawha County, West Virginia, woman was caught with a loaded handgun at Yeager Airport (CRW) Sunday morning, Feb. 12, and was cited by police for carrying a gun in an airport.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Appearing this morning on ABC’s This Week with George Stehpanopoulos, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called directly on President Donald Trump to immediately explain to the American people whether he knew about-or even directed-Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to hold secret conversations with Russian officials about sanctions imposed after Russia interfered with the U.S. presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) was recognized on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, with the National HIDTA of the Year Award for its outstanding work in reducing drug trafficking in the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Former U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, was presented with the Outstanding Support to the National HIDTA Program award this week, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2017
News Release: Haleakalā National Park wishes to remind people that the “Visitor Services Volunteers" application deadline is next week, on Wednesday, February, 15, 2017. The park is recruiting local residents for visitor center volunteers and Kia`i ala Hele (Trail Guardians) volunteers, to educate visitors about the unique natural and cultural resources of Haleakalā. Families are particularly encouraged to apply.
