News from March 2017
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Due to an unanticipated rockslide the National Park Service (NPS) will close the Colorado River Trail between Pipe Creek and the Silver Bridge for trail repair starting Monday, April 3 at 7 am. The trail will be closed to foot traffic and stock use. The NPS anticipates the closure...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Adrian Tom, 38, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Church Rock, N.M., pled guilty earlier this week in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an abusive sexual contact charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Tom will be sentenced within the range of 37 to 63 months in prison followed by not less than five years of supervised release. Tom will also be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Potomac, MD - Nineteenth-century mule-drawn canal boat excursions resume for the 2017 season at the Great Falls Tavern on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Come aboard the Charles F. Mercer, a reproduction packet boat to experience what it was once like to travel up and down this historic waterway. Cruise on the canal at a mule’s pace and experience rising and falling 8 feet in a lift lock. Hear tales of what life was like for the families who lived and worked on the canal.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury on Wednesday returned two separate indictments charging individuals from outside of Alabama with traveling to the state to commit access device fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Michael Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Randal L. Mamino, 49, of Collinsville, Illinois, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Mamino pled guilty to this offense on Dec. 12, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: On April 5-6, 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in conjunction with Holloman Air Force Base, is planning a prescribed burn within Otero County in southern New Mexico. Personnel will concentrate their efforts on burning the Centennial Bombing Range located on McGregor Range. Centennial is approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Bobby Lemon to Serve 12-Month Sentence for Falsely Preparing Soldiers Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Dennis Joseph Machado, 44, of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to nine years and eight months in prison for schemes to distribute methamphetamine and defraud banks in Sutter, Sacramento, and San Joaquin Counties using identities obtained from stolen mail, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Loren Glen Warner, 27, of Fresno, CA, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with enticement of a minor. The charge carries a minimum of 10 years and a maximum penalty of life and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Prescribed Burning Activity at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to White House Counsel Donald McGahn and National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster asking when they became aware that their own staff members reportedly contacted House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, facilitated his entry into the White House complex, and provided him with access to review classified information.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Frutera Del Litoral USA LLC.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK -Julia Ann Puentes, 33, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 60 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in December 2016 to her role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Michael Hampton, 40, of Stockton, today to two and a half years in prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Judge Burrell also ordered Hampton to pay $282,670 in restitution to Brand Security Corporation on behalf of the trademark holders.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statements after President Donald J. Trump announced that he will sign two executive orders on trade...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Antonio “TBoi" Nash, age 23, of Springdale was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Transporting Individual to Engage in Prostitution. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 35-year-old Kirbyville, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit, and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: The former Detroit Public Schools Director of Grant Development was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and an additional 4 months in a community corrections center upon her release, as a condition of supervised release, after having pleaded guilty to federal program fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Branchburg, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 216 months in prison for his role in a scheme to produce sexually explicit images of children through a website he operated from his home computer, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
