News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Harvey Christian was sentenced today to 50 years in prison by United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn. Christian was convicted at trial in October 2014 on charges of racketeering -- including two murder conspiracies, firearms possession and trafficking in crack cocaine. The charges arose out of Christian’s long-time dominance of a drug crew that operated in the Park Hill housing complex in the Clifton neighborhood of Staten Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GLEN PORTER, also known as “Kuran," 32, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: A Massillon woman was charged with defrauding financial institutions out of more than $2 million by having escrow funds on home purchases deposited into her personal account, Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja said.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: at Morristown National Historical Park’s National Park Week.

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: Daniel Rogerson-Wise, 33, of North Ridgeville, was charged in federal court with attempting to possess with intent to distribute a fentanyl analogue, law enforcement officials said.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: An extensive road construction project in Arches National Park is well underway with crews currently working on the park entrance road. Work along the entrance road includes improving drainage near the entrance station and constructing a new entry lane and roundabout.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Eric Houston (56, Riverview) today pleaded guilty to receipt of stolen government property. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: LANDER - Acting United States Attorney John R. Green, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Calvin Shivers, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Special Agent in Charge Doug Noseep announced that on March 28, 2017 Winder River Indian Reservation Resident Marvin "Muff" Magnan, age 63, of Lander...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Defendant Harvey Christian Led a Violent Gang on Staten Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Mark Stutheit, 59, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to 121 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2016 to one count of receipt of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy Secretary Rick Perry honored Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management’s (OREM) Wendy A. Cain as Federal Project Director of the Year for 2016, and presented a team under Cain’s oversight with the DOE’s.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Columbia, SC -Zakaryia Abdin, 18, of Ladson, South Carolina, appeared in federal court this morning in Charleston, South Carolina, following his arrest by the FBI last night. Abdin was arrested for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two women were sentenced today for terrorism crimes related to their material support of al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come enjoy the Read with a Ranger program at 10:00 am on Saturday, April 8, 2017, at the Parkway Visitor Center. This month’s featured story is “Pitter Patter," an adventure of Pitter and Patter, two raindrops making their...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the unsealing of an charging Orlando residents Anyi (“Angie") Artica-Romero (31), Joaquin Mejia-Murillo (62), and Milton Noel Romero (34) with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Artica-Romero is charged in...

By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: Skagway - Construction activities to improve the Dyea Flats road will resume beginning April 17. Road construction will involve occasional delays during the day and closures at night. Project improvements include elevating the road surface, increasing drainage, replacing culverts, and adding widened turn-outs for safe passing lanes. Please review the schedule of work below.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Glennallen Field Office is announcing a 15-day public review and comment period on a proposed plan from Copper Valley Telephone Cooperative (CVTC) to install a 140-mile fiber optic cable along the Richardson Highway between Gakona Junction and Delta Junction, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Four Norfolk men have been sentenced to a combined 37 years in prison for their respective roles in several Tidewater AT&T Store robberies in early 2016.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a proposed response to a patent application for a shooting range complex to be located three miles west of Milan, New Mexico. Interested parties may submit comments regarding the proposed conveyance by May 15, 2017. The Cibola County Commission has submitted an application to the BLM to acquire 211.73 acres for the shooting range complex under the authority of the Recreation and Public Purposes Act.