News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging ELY OSCAR MORENO-PONCE, age 41, of Mexico, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today announced a full Committee hearing on the President’s trade agenda. The hearing will take place on Thursday, June 22, at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A California man appeared in federal court today on charges he possessed more than 60 pounds of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: A former Parma insurance salesman was sentenced to more than three years in prison for failing to file income tax returns and failing to pay taxes, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison in connection to a man’s death during a drug deal at a North Las Vegas apartment in November 2013, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - The man whose celebratory New Year’s 2017 gunfire killed a five-year-old child in Athens, Ala., pleaded guilty today in federal court to illegally possessing the gun because he was in the United States illegally. Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido and ICE Homeland Security Investigations Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge James Hernandez announced the plea.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on how tax reform will help America’s small businesses grow and create new jobs. The hearing will take place on Thursday, July 13, in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building at 10:00 AM.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - Today the BLM Wyoming Rock Springs Field Office approved a coal lease modification for Black Butte Coal Company, allowing the mining of approximately 9.2 million tons of coal. The lease modification is located within the existing Black Butte Surface Mine, which is located 25 miles east of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s July 2017 Total Water Supply Available (TWSA) forecast for the Yakima Basin indicates the water supply will fully satisfy senior and junior water rights this irrigation season.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a new state-by-state analysis today on what is at risk if the Prevention and Public Health Fund is eliminated under the Senate Republican Trumpcare bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 46-year-old local man has entered a guilty plea to distribution of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Ryan James Day, 32, of Ellis, Kansas, and formerly of Clarksville, Tenn., was sentenced on Monday, by United States District Court Judge Aleta Trauger, to 50 years in prison for production of child pornography, announced Jack Smith, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Keith Eugene Mann, 50, of Franklin, N.C. was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger to five years in prison for destroying real property of the United States by means of fire, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Mann was also ordered to serve three years under court supervision.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Recent bear incidents at the Walker Fork Campground have prompted the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to temporarily close the campground, located at mile post 82 of the Taylor Highway 10 miles east of Chicken, Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Silt, Colo. - Stage 1 fire restrictions begin at 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 7 for the White River National Forest, Bureau of Land Management-administered lands, unincorporated and private lands in Summit, Eagle and Rio Blanco counties. Stage 1 fire restrictions are already in effect in Mesa, Garfield, and Pitkin counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging three previously indicted Baltimore City Police Officers with additional robberies. The superseding indictment charges the defendants with racketeering conspiracy, racketeering, robbery, extortion, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. The superseding indictment was unsealed today and charges the following defendants.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: This August and September, Cape Hatteras National Seashore is offering park visitors an opportunity to observe excavations of recently hatched sea turtle nests. During an excavation, biologists will dig up the hatched nest, count empty eggshells, and collect un-hatched eggs for research. Live and dead hatchlings are occasionally found during these excavations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH), along with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX), today released the following statement after the Centers...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Based on current fire conditions, federal interagency fire management partners have elevated the fire danger rating to Moderate. This rating applies in Grand Teton National Park, the Bridger-Teton National Forest, and the National Elk Refuge. Fire managers consider several factors - including calculated...
