News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Grand Canyon National Park will join national park sites around the country with free entry into the park in honor of President’s Day Monday, Feb. 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev.-A Henderson, Nev., man was sentenced Thursday to 123 months in prison for possession of more than 600 images of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada. As part of the sentencing, U.S. District Judge Lloyd D. George required the defendant to register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: On Feb. 3, Fire Island National Seashore Superintendent Chris Soller and Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society President Bob LaRosa signed a new five-year partnership agreement. The agreement renews the Society's commitment to work collaboratively with the National Park Service to provide public programming and assist with preservation efforts at the lighthouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on February 8, 2017, TREVOR MURPHY, also known as “Snookie," 28, of West Haven, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to federal robbery and firearm charges related to the murder of Joseph Zargo on Dec. 23, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of JULIUS LEE BOSTON, 37, to 41 months in prison for filing false income tax returns seeking approximately $135,000. BOSTON pleaded guilty on Aug. 31, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: During your hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, your statements regarding the landmark Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) raised concerns among children with disabilities and their parents about your and the Trump administration’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Inland Empire man is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on federal charges of aiming the beam of a laser at an Ontario Police Department helicopter.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: New York native and artist Faith Revell lives remotely in Valdez, Alaska - a place of extremes that straddles the Chugach Mountains and the sea. Inspired by natural phenomena, human geography and movement, Revell’s abstract paintings and modern photographs exude a visceral, kinesthetic perspective on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Seven defendants, including members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang, who were convicted in September 2016 following a four-day jury trial for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in north Texas from approximately January 2014 to April 2016 were sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge John McBryde. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Former Army National Guardsman Sentenced to 11 Years for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to a carjacking that ended in a multiple-vehicle collision with injuries and the death of the car owner’s dog.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: A former Summit County councilwoman was convicted of taking cash bribes in exchange for trying to influence court proceedings and investigations, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a project to refurbish the San Andreas and Staten Island salinity stations within the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Reclamation will replace the salinity stations with better quality materials to withstand deterioration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Pedro Garcia (34, Manatee County) to six years and six months in federal prison for knowingly possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm and ammunition involved in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: ISIL Supporters Attacked Federal Law Enforcement Officers and Plotted Bomb Attacks in New York City.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing of a complaint charging VICTOR PETERSON, 54, with selling fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the death of a 39-year-old Upper West Side man.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Donnie and Sandra Marks Ran ‘Readings By Catherine’ in Charlottesville.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Parkway Visitor Center, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm on Feb. 25, 2017. The demonstrations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to around 1840.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHARLES BARNES, 35, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Eighty-two volunteers counted 314 eagles across the Powder River Basin as part of the nationwide Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey on the morning of Jan. 14, 2017.
