News from January 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come enjoy the Read with a Ranger program at10:00 am on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, at the Parkway Visitor Center. This month’s featured story is “Animals in Winter." Learn several different strategies that animals have to survive...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON -The United States Attorney=s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dorian Whitehead, age 31, of Binghamton, New York, was sentenced on January 5, 2017, by United States District Court Judge James M. Munley, to 51 months’ imprisonment for aiding and abetting two armed bank robberies. Judge Munley also ordered Whitehead to pay $169,099 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Francisco Garcia, 19, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, U.S. Attorney, announced that on January 4, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against a man involved in habitual domestic violence offenses on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Jeffrey Matchopatow (age: 22) of Keshena. Count One of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man and a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Kidnapping.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: HYATTSVILLE, Md. - A former member of the Guatemalan army, whom witnesses say participated in a massacre there more than three decades ago that claimed over 200 lives, was arrested today by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and charged in immigration court with having assisted or otherwise participated in extrajudicial killings during that massacre.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 100,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Three Seizures at Greyhound Bus Station and Amtrak Train Station in Albuquerque; Fourth Seizure Arose out of Traffic Stop on Interstate 40 in Bernalillo County.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The president’s health care law has come to be defined as full of #BrokenPromises and #RateShock. From skyrocketing premiums and fleeing insurers to collapsing CO-OPs, House Republicans are ready to rescue the American people from Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Michele Ann Palm, age 51, of Watertown, South Dakota, appeared before the Honorable Charles B. Kornmann, U.S. District Judge, on January 6, 2017, and pled guilty to an Indictment that charged her with wire fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following the Obama Administration’s release of the second installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), “Transforming the Nation’s Electricity System", which focuses on the national security, environmental protection, and economic development imperatives of the electricity system in the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Justin G. Liverman, 24, of Morehead City, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today for his role in a harassment scheme that targeted senior U.S. government officials. Liverman’s plea admits guilt to a conspiracy to commit unauthorized computer intrusions, identity theft, and telephone harassment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: A Canton woman was indicted on charges that she defrauded a Tennessee man out of more than $100,000 after falsely telling him he won a $3 million sweepstakes but had to pay taxes and fees up front, U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon said.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today released its strategy that connects cultural resources and climate change. The Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy (CRCC Strategy) is a landmark statement for the NPS and its historic preservation and climate change partners about how to anticipate, plan for, and respond to the effects of climate change on cultural resources.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news reports that President-elect Trump and the Republican Majority in Congress intend to have the American taxpayer pay for his border “wall":
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WESTON, Fla. - The indictment against Guy Philippe -, 48, of Haiti, was unsealed this morning at the United (U.S.) District Court in the Southern District of Florida. Philippe was arrested on January 5, 2017 in Haiti by the Haitian National Police narcotic unit that works regularly with the Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney, announced that on January 4, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against a man involved in drug trafficking on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Joseph Komanekin, Jr. (age: 33) of Neopit. Count One of the indictment...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Devils Tower National Monument will celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and join over 400 national park units across the country with free entry into the monument on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M - Seven defendants are facing federal methamphetamine trafficking charges in four cases involving seizures last week of more than 52 pounds of methamphetamine. Three of the cases are the result of interdiction investigations at the Greyhound Bus Station and Amtrak Train Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The fourth case arose out of a traffic stop on Interstate 40 in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
