News from January 2017
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and co-chair of the Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating anti-Semitism, today issued the following statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - Every Friday, from October through April, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and its partners host the popular Brown Bag Lecture series which provides unique opportunities for members of the public to learn more about the area’s natural resources and public lands. Speakers include...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. -A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to serve 21 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release on her conviction of concealing a person from arrest, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in partnership with the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, invites the public to participate in a free, 45 minute program at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 East Martin Luther King Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37403, on Monday, February...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - TIMOTHY JAY WILLIAMS, 54, of Edmond, Oklahoma, and STEPHEN L. BUTZ, 53, of Blanchard, Oklahoma, were both sentenced this week to serve 41 months and 31 months respectively for bank fraud that they committed against the Bank of Union and other financial institutions, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. The men were also ordered to pay restitution of $1,260,725.43 to their victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Jan. 25, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 13 defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in the municipality of San Sebastián, PR, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), Aguadilla Strike Force Unit, are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Defendant Fired 11 Shots at Group of People on Springtime Afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Arnoldo Rueda-Medina, known by several aliases including “La Minsa," arrived in the United States today from Mexico to face criminal charges in connection with his top leadership roles in the “La Familia-Michoacan" Mexican drug cartel, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas and Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Dallas Field Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Everglades National Park is thrilled to announce the continuation of our National Park Service’s Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) for summer 2017! Applications for the program are due February 6, 2017, and can be found at Hispanicaccess.org/LHIP.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Dayton Aviation Heritage NHP and Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site to Close Early for One Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Patrick Willie Smith (41, Daytona Beach) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Court also ordered him to forfeit an FEG (.45-caliber) pistol and seven rounds of.45-caliber ammunition. Smith pleaded guilty on Sept. 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a more than $3.7 million mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to serve 12 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, Christian John, the leader of the “Hull Street Crew," a violent criminal gang that operated in the Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and East New York areas of Brooklyn for more than a decade, was sentenced to life imprisonment, following his...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Socorro Field Office will burn up to 50 acres in Catron County between February 1 and April 15, 2017, weather permitting. The objective of these burn projects is to remove piles of limbs and branches created as part of an old thinning project one mile west of Pie Town, immediately north of Highway 60. There will also be a prescribed burn just west of the community of Datil a quarter mile west of the BLM campground in the recreation area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: (NEW YORK - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, and George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State Police, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Victims Were Attacked in Broad Daylight; One Fought Back With Her Cane.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Cherie R. Dillon, 61, of Fruitland, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to 24 counts of health care fraud and 24 corresponding counts of aggravated identity theft for fraudulently billing dental services to health care benefit programs, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Dillon was indicted on February...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), announced that the committee will hold a business meeting on Wednesday Feb. 1 at 10:45 AM to consider Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, whom President Trump has nominated for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will lead the Committee’s first hearing of the new Congress next week to explore the challenges facing our Nation’s infrastructure and a vision for building a 21st century infrastructure for America. The Committee will hear testimony from the leaders of some of the most prominent businesses in the Nation, as well as from organized labor.
