News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Lake Berryessa is a beautiful destination and safe for swimming, boating, and fishing for the whole family. The public is encouraged to come out and enjoy the great outdoors at the lake this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a San Bernardino, Calif., woman was charged in federal court today after eight pounds of fentanyl were found in her luggage at a local bus station.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) thirteenth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 29, 2017, turned in 26, 420 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount exceeded the last take back event by 5,423 pounds.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation today hosted a Water Infrastructure and Alternative Financing forum, bringing together public and private entities to discuss potential water resource projects for public-private partnerships (P3). The forum supports a Request for Information (RFI) to engage the private sector and explore opportunities for alternative finance and delivery models.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 9, 2017, D’Juan Manuel Pizarro, 27, of Steamboat, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 120 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Pizarro had previously pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. B A Topeka man pleaded guilty Tuesday to lying to investigators in a 2016 interview during a search for fugitive Orlando J. Collins, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department reached a settlement agreement today with Provisional Staffing Solutions (Provisional), a temporary staffing agency located in Cranston, Rhode Island. The agreement resolves the department’s investigation into whether Provisional discriminated against non-U.S. citizens when checking their work authorization documents, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By State Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the presidential election in the Republic of Korea (ROK)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On May 8, 2017, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Brian Nelson Halsey, age 52, of Westminster, Maryland, formerly of Dundalk, Maryland to 57 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a scheme to sell property stolen from shopping mall kiosks online.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury returned a Second Superseding Indictment charging Javier Pallamps-Fernandez, aka “Javi," of Queens, New York with drug distribution charges. Specifically, the indictment alleges that Pallamps-Fernandez conspired with Christopher Nazer of Milton to distribute over a kilogram of heroin in Vermont from approximately 2012 to May of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Derek Pelker, age 27, of Wernersville, Pennsylvania, pled guilty on May 8, 2017, before United States District Judge John E. Jones, III, to three counts of armed bank robbery, use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Defendant Stole from Fishing Company as well as the Widows of Close Friends.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man, who conspired to travel to Michigan for sex with two minors and who was in possession of approximately 6,000 images of child pornography and approximately 300 videos of child pornography, was sentenced today to 160 months in prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Release Date: May 10, 2017. Contact: Kina-Doreen G. Lewis, Education Coordinator for Pacific Historic Parks. Phone: 671-477-7278 Ext 1017 or 671-777-4301. Email: klewis@pacifichistoricparks.org. War in the Pacific National Historical Park Hosts Junior Ranger Academy!. This summer, War in the Pacific National...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip L.B. Halpern (619) 546-6964.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Two men who participated in a scheme to defraud victims across the United States have pled guilty in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Helaman Hansen, 64, of Elk Grove, was found guilty today by a federal jury for operating an elaborate adult-adoption fraud scheme that targeted undocumented aliens, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Ryan Prost, 36, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Participation in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana Shows Continued Community Involvement in Addressing the Abuse of Prescription Drugs
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - The DEA’s Phoenix Field Division has finished recording the total amount of drugs collected from those agencies who participated in Saturday’s National Take Back event. Once again, Arizonans turned out in significant numbers and disposed of 9,576.35 pounds, over four tons, of prescription drugs. The total for this weekend’s event is a 1,100 pound increase over the National Take Back event held in October 2016.
