News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: MEDORA, North Dakota - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 793,383 visitors to Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, and Theodore Roosevelt National Park in 2016 spent $49.579 million in communities near these parks. That spending supported 681 jobs in the surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 5, 2017 - Anthony Laquesa Coleman a/k/a Scrappy, 30, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced today to 20 years in prison, followed by six years of supervised release, by Senior U.S. District Judge Marvin E. Aspen of the Northern District of Illinois (sitting by designation in the Middle District of Tennessee), announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: (Richmond, CA) - On Saturday, May 13th join us at the Rosie the Riveter Visitor Education Center for a 15 minute overview of the new temporary exhibit, Art and Volunteerism Collide: San Francisco’s AWVS Wartime Canteens. The unveiling will follow at 11:15 am.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Rawlins and Lander field offices have released a revised environmental assessment that analyzes a proposed wild horse gather in the Red Desert Wild Horse Herd Management Area Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - On Thursday, May 4, 2017, a resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Christopher Dame, age 50, of Gaithersburg, Maryland pleaded guilty on May 3, 2017, to theft of government property. Dame, a former Visual Information Specialist for the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Medical Arts Division located in Bethesda, Maryland, admitted to stealing NIH property and selling it online without authorization.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Port Angeles, WA - During National Volunteer Week, the National Park Service recognized the important contributions of all of its volunteers by announcing the recipients of the annual George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service. Olympic National Park is proud to announce Volunteer-In-Park John L. Goar is the recipient of the national Hartzog Award for Outstanding Individual Volunteer Service.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: A landslide on Thursday afternoon closed a portion of the Black Mountain Oil and Gas Field on public land on the Washakie/Hot Springs county line.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: WICHITA KAN. - A Crawford County man was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Nichlas Simpson, 28, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for committing bank fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Simpson to pay back $21,249.17 in restitution to victims of his scheme. Simpson pleaded guilty on Feb. 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney, Robert C. Stuart, announced that on May 4, 2017, Musa J. Harris, 27, of Oakland, California, was sentenced to five years and ten months (70 months) in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin between November of 2012 and April...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Po Kwe, 31, formerly of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on May 3, 2017, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 15 months in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for receipt and possession of an unregistered firearm. In addition to serving his prison sentence, Kwe will also serve 3 years of supervised release and pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Texas man was sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison for possession of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine in Calcasieu Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Aircraft Owners Placed At Risk. James Leonard Brumit, 71, of Nashville, Tenn., was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury and charged with two counts of fraud involving aircraft; two counts of making false statements; and two counts of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Clark Calloway, 38, of Washington, D.C., has been arrested and charged with two federal firearms offenses after allegedly seeking and illegally purchasing a fully automatic AK-rifle 47 and ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Do you want to help protect native plant and wildlife habitat in your National Parks? Participants will work with Park staff to pull and bag garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) from high traffic areas within the park. Garlic mustard is an aggressive non-native plant that displaces our...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Zachary Spinney, 36, of Kittery, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 38 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm while being subject to a protection from abuse order. Spinney pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Mario Lee, a/k/a “Moe", 42, of Bangor, and formerly of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 218 months in prison and eight years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. Lee pled guilty on Oct. 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned two indictments Wednesday afternoon charging two individuals with recent alleged robberies of banks and credit unions in Salt Lake, Utah, and Davis counties.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Al Torrell Beasley, a/k/a “Rody," 39, of Dallas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 110 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2015 to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
