News from March 2017
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Fort Sumter National Monument and Charles Pinckney National Historic Site welcomed over 940,000 visitors in 2016. This year also marked the National Park Service Centennial. In 2016, 888,330 people came to Fort Sumter NM, an increase of 5.66% over 2015. For Charles Pinckney NHS, 53,184 visitors explored the park, which is an amazing 13.17% increase over the previous year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Use Resulted In Overdose Death. Brian Wimsatt, 29, of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday and charged with conspiracy, possession and distribution of heroin, the use of which resulted in death, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of...
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ahead of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s scheduled visit to Beijing on Saturday, U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a bipartisan letter to China’s ambassador to the United States seeking ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Darnell Peace, 33, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment[1] with 1 count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and 1 count of possession of controlled substances announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Sept. 17, 2016...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, released the following statement on the release of President Trump’s budget blueprint, which supports shifting the air traffic control (ATC) function of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to an independent, non-governmental organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ian Tarbell, 44, of Hogansburg, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of contraband cigarettes before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, former North Carolina Superior Court Judge ARNOLD OGDEN JONES, II pled guilty to Promising and Paying Gratuities to a Public Official, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 201(c)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jennifer Marissa Miera, 23, of Questa, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a federal bank robbery charge. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI and Sheriff Jerry L Hogrefe of the Taos County Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Neil Sweeney, 51, was sentenced on Monday, March 13, 2017, by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 17 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release. In October 2016, Sweeney was convicted by a federal jury of possessing and distributing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement following Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke approval of the Greens Hollow coal lease in central Utah.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: KINGMAN, Arizona - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM), Kingman Field Office and Colorado River District Fire Management Office, in cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, will conduct a prescribed burn in the Hualapai Mountains southeast of Kingman in the coming weeks. Burning operations...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Anthony Rowe, age 55, of Wilmington, Delaware, was convicted by a federal jury of distributing over 1,000 grams (one kilo) of heroin in Dauphin and Lycoming counties. The three-day trial was held before United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ARTHUR RESPERT, age 26, of Kenner, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one-count of theft of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Mansfield man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with posting online threats to the President of the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has responded to questions about its prospectus, currently open for proposals, for a concession opportunity for Fire Island National Seashore at its Watch Hill and Sailors Haven locations.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and FBI Director James Comey requesting information about whether Lt. General Michael Flynn fully disclosed-as...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H.- Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Micky Garst, Jr., 26, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to a federal indictment charging him with the illegal possession of two firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Jason Barber, 39, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced today to a total of 60 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert N. Scola Jr in Miami, Florida, for producing child pornography that depicted his abuse of a toddler he was babysitting. Barber previously pled guilty to all counts in the Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Embezzled nearly $2.7 million from local construction company.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Rondell McLeod, age 23, of Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2017, to 11 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for two armed commercial robberies and for using and brandishing a firearm during a crime a violence. Judge Titus also ordered McLeod to pay restitution of $10,568.
