News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that OSCAR VALENTIN, also known as “Tato," 43, of New London, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 201 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics, and for his role in the September 2012 homicide of Javier Reyes of New London.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that OSCAR VALENTIN, also known as “Tato," 43, of New London, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 201 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics, and for his role in the September 2012 homicide of Javier Reyes of New London.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS - Ikechi W. Emeaghara, 27, of Columbus, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 240 months in prison for eight counts of armed bank robbery. Emeaghara is the armed robber dubbed as the “Buckeye Bandit" by law enforcement.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The number of passengers expected to fly this summer season is expected to be the highest in years with more than 2.5 million passengers per day expected to pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints through Labor Day.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore is pleased to announce that the next Evening at the Cape programs will take place on Saturday, July 8, Sunday, July 9, and Monday, July 10. Bring your flashlight and experience South Core Banks and the lighthouse as the Light Keepers did, in the dark...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Set Three Residences On Fire In Baltimore and Pennsylvania.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - The number of passengers expected to fly this summer is expected to be the highest in years with more than 2.5 million passengers per day expected to pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of three members of the Mustafa family crime organization for their roles in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to traffic stolen cellular phones and other electronic devices. KANAN T. MUSTAFA, 40, JAMAL MUSTAFA, 45, and NIZAR MOHAMAD MUSTAFA, 26, were sentenced this week before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS) Acting Northeast Regional Director Cynthia MacLeod has named Steven Sims as the new superintendent of Valley Forge National Historical Park and Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in Pennsylvania. Currently serving as Northeast Region’s chief of facility...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Littleton, Colorado, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS) Acting Northeast Regional Director Cynthia MacLeod has named Steven Sims as the new superintendent of Valley Forge National Historical Park and Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in Pennsylvania. Currently serving as Northeast Region’s chief of facility...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - The leader of a Panamanian drug trafficking organization who imported 62 kilograms of cocaine into the United States using commercial shipping vessels was sentenced today to 16 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in federal prison for assaulting a Deputy U.S. Marshal with a deadly and dangerous weapon while the Deputy was engaged in his official duties.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Yoder, Ranking Member Ryan, and Chairman Frelinghuysen for your work on this bill.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Starting Monday, June 26, 2017, Theodore Roosevelt Island will be closed for the removal of diseased trees from along the maintained trails. As diseased trees are removed from sections of maintained trails, those sections will be reopened. Work is weather dependent and should last about three weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Johnny Silvester Edgell, of St. Marys, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new mobile, ground-based system that could scan and map atmospheric gas plumes over kilometer distances.