News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE - On Saturday, March 4, the Bureau of Land Management will, once again, host the finish of the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race at the Campbell Tract.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that Unterrio Cartrelle Tate, 22, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge William H. Steele to 37 months imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The judge ordered that Tate pay a $100 special assessment, undergo 3 years of supervised release, and pay restitution totaling $4,994.10.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Nickolas James Parnell, 37, of Garden City, Idaho, was arrested yesterday in Garden City on a three-count federal indictment in the District of Idaho charging him with transportation of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and access with intent to view child pornography. A federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Tuesday charged a Vestavia Hills man with making false statements to the FBI in relation to payments from a contractor providing inmate health care at the Jefferson County Jail, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Anthony Tyrone Jones (36, Jacksonville) to five years and six months in federal prison for impersonating an FBI agent, wire fraud, and failure to appear. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $21,700 to a victim of his offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: A former lieutenant and crew chief from the now-disbanded Narcotics Unit of the Detroit Police Department were sentenced today following their convictions for conspiring to rob drug dealers and to steal drugs and money obtained in police searches, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three people admitted today that they smuggled counterfeit electronics, including Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods, from China for sale in the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman of the District of New Jersey, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Special Agent in Charge Terence Opiola of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Newark, and Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will continue to increase flows from Lucky Peak Dam beginning today due to above-normal winter precipitation in the Boise River drainage.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Brian L. Redden, age 32, of Alton, Illinois, was sentenced on Feb. 22, 2017 to 151 months in federal prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine. Redden has been continuously confined since his arrest in May, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park is planning a prescribed burn on the 52 acres on the west slope of Little Round Top this spring. National Park Service (NPS) regional fire management specialists will assist the park with the prescribed fire, whose purpose is to help maintain the open fields and meadows...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Feb. 13, 2017, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment charging Dr. Dante A. Rodríguez-Rivera, Javier Efraín Siverio-Echevarría, Dr. George D. Alcántara-Cardi, Dr. Martha Nieves, Javier Antonio Aguirre- Estrada, and Carlos Maldonado-López...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: It is often the case that a valuable new industrial capability brings with it a whole new set of challenges for measurement science -- and thus, inevitably, for NIST.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Adam Joseph Neal Graham, 26, of Elkins, West Virginia, was charged in a three-count indictment with violating the rights of two pretrial detainees at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail (TVRJ) and obstructing justice, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Kansas Men Sentenced for Roles in Federal Hate Crime Against Black Somali Men.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Access via Highways 120 and 41 closed due to road damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department today announced a settlement with the city of Sterling Heights, Michigan to resolve allegations that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) in denying approval to allow the American Islamic Community Center, Inc. (AICC) to build a mosque in the city.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Kansas Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Preparing Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Carson City, Nev. - Ken Collum is the new Carson City District, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Stillwater Field Manager. He was previously the field manager for the Eagle Lake Field Office in Susanville, CA, part of the Northern California District, overseeing more than one million acres of public lands in northeastern California and northwestern Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: California Auctioneer Charged in Rhinoceros Horn Smuggling Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Bristol woman, who along with her husband and another woman, was accused of healthcare fraud charges, has pled guilty to federal conspiracy charges, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring and Nick DiGiulio, Special Agent in Charge, Philadelphia Regional Office for U.S. Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General announced today.
