News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial's longstanding tradition of celebrating peace through music has evolved into hosting the first Put-in-Bay Music Festival on Saturday, June 10, beginning at 11 am.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Las Vegas - The 13-mile Scenic Drive at Red Rock Canyon will be open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. starting March 1. This change happens yearly as days become longer and sunset is later in the day. The Visitors’ Center will continue to be open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Two Miami-Dade County residents and one foreign national were arrested and charged with exporting prohibited articles to Syria, in violation of the Syria trade embargo, commerce regulations and a U.S. Department of Treasury designation based on an Indictment charging eleven individuals and one foreign company.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a Record of Decision for a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement authorizing the translocation of more than 1,500 desert tortoises from military training areas near the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - An indictment was unsealed today charging DANIEL TIMOTHY JOHNSON, 33, of Bethany, Oklahoma, and BENJAMIN LEE JOHNSON, 31, of Oklahoma City, with conspiracy to counterfeit United States currency and drug charges, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Residents of northwestern upstate New York will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® application program inside the Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC) terminal during the week of March 6 to 10, where officials will host a temporary enrollment center.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lorenzo Chavez, 25, and co-defendant James Montano, Jr., 23, both of Albuquerque, N.M., entered guilty pleas yesterday in federal court to violating the Hobbs Act by robbing the Route 66 Casino Xpress, located in Laguna Pueblo, N.M., on Dec. 13, 2015. Chavez additionally entered a guilty plea to drug trafficking, Hobbs Act and firearms charges in a separate case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Feb. 23, 2017, Dean J. Kostelecky, 58, Broomfield, CO., was sentenced before Chief US District Judge Daniel L Hovland to serve one and a half years in prison and three (3) years of supervised release. Judge Hovland also ordered that Kostelecky...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal drug and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Huntsville woman for dealing firearms illegally, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of the Interior announced they will the implementation of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue’s (ONRR) “Consolidated Federal Oil & Gas and Federal & Indian Coal Valuation Rule." Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced Thursday to 240 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Birmingham man for the Jan. 10 robbery of a credit union branch in Tuscaloosa, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jerry Ba Nguyen, 24, of Las Vegas, appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr., to interference with flight crew members and attendants, announced U.S Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a man from Texas was sentenced Wednesday to 140 months in prison for conspiring to sell methamphetamine in the Shreveport area with another Texas man.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: Boston - A former bank teller at the former Lenox National Bank was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with embezzling more than $378,000 from the bank and concealing the theft with false bank records.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today returned separate and unrelated indictments against two men for each possessing multiple pounds of cocaine in Greene County, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Senior U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Alla Samchuk, 45, of Roseville, to nine and a half years in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme and obstruction of justice, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice today announced that Wilfredo Tanon Rodriguez (56), pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to possessing cocaine with intent to distribute.
