News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the Nauti-Bloc gang was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in trafficking heroin and suboxone.
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (H.R. 3364). The bipartisan bill sanctions Iran, Russia, and North Korea for their dangerous and belligerent actions that undermine the United States and our allies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to bank robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As the Trump administration is pushing to open up our oceans and coasts to unsafe oil and gas development, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Vice Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross today urging him to protect...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: DALLAS-Francisco Javier Lopez Echeverria, 19, of Balch Springs, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve 420 months in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release, following his guilty plea to two child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ahead of a vote to begin debate on repealing and replacing Obamacare, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today urged his Senate colleagues to vote in favor of the motion to proceed to the House-passed reconciliation bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Tyson Heath, age 41, of Wellpinit, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on March 14, 2017, to the crime of Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender. Senior United...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: “Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3178, the Medicare Part B Improvement Act of 2017. I am pleased that Chairman Brady along with Health Subcommittee Chairman Tiberi and Ranking Member Levin and I worked in a bipartisan manner to draft this bill. It brings together a number of important measures to improve Medicare Part B. I encourage all of our colleagues to also support it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Bernard Yamura White, 36, of Anchorage was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in federal prison for charges of drug trafficking, money laundering, and firearms offenses. White, a third-time felony drug offender, also received a consecutive...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Five Fugitives Arrested in Connection With String of Violent Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Karl and Sorina Morrison, both 60, of Kitchener, Ontario, who were convicted of attempt to export pentylone and furanyl fentanyl and misprision of a felony, respectively, were sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher C. Cozad, of Mount Clare, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for illegal possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Beginning Tuesday, Aug. 1, the National Park Service will close a one-mile section of carriage road between the Jordan Pond Gatehouse and Wildwood Stables in Acadia National Park to repair a stone retaining wall that collapsed in fall 2015. The carriage road will be closed to all public access until Sept. 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Tuesday, July 25, 2017, Christopher David Grippe, 29, of Wartburg, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve 280 months in federal prison for possession and distribution of child pornography. Upon his release from prison, he will be under the supervision of the U.S Probation Office for life.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: National Park Service News Release. Release date: July 21, 2017. Contact(s): Superintendent, Deanna_Dulen@nps.gov, Phone: 760-924-5505. Date: July 21, 2017. Devils Postpile National Monument Seeks Public Input on Draft Accessibility Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan. The National Park Service has prepared...
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in support of the Russia, Iran, and North Korea Sanctions Act (H.R.3364 ) on the House floor...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Kankakee, Ill., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. On July 24, U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce sentenced Brandon Shoffner to 84 months (7 years) in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Shoffner, 29...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), today sent a letter to White House Counsel Don McGahn, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Pecos, NM: - Pecos National Historical Park will be hosting Mr. Marlon Magdalena of Jemez Pueblo on Saturday, July 29st and Sunday, July 30nd from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. as he demonstrates traditional musical instruments and techniques from Jemez Historic Site. Mr. Magdalena crafts traditional Native American flutes using both traditional and modern methods, plays traditional music, and instructs on historical and traditional topics surrounding Jemez Pueblo.
