News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Toledo, Ohio man was arraigned today after being indicted on May 16 by a federal grand jury on charges of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- Grand Canyon National Park and Yuntaishan Geopark from the Henan province of China renewed their five-year Sister Park Agreement on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced today a gang member, Ernest Valentine, aka “Bop," who sold crack-cocaine for the New Jersey Grape Street Crips gang was sentenced to 112 months in prison. In addition to the prison term, Judge Linares sentenced Valentine to five years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will keep its Delta Cross Channel Gates closed this Memorial Day weekend, which runs Friday, May 26 through Monday, May 29. The closure is due to persistent high flows in the Sacramento River system. Please be advised that the decision to open or close the gates can be made on short notice based on requirements.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held the first of a series of oversight hearings to examine the impacts of federal natural resources laws gone astray. The panel focused on three laws in particular: the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), the Wilderness Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging seven individuals with conspiring to steal trade secrets from a business in the U.S. on behalf of a company in China that was engaged in manufacturing a high-performance, naval-grade product for military and civilian uses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Man Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County teen has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mark G. Peters, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI"), announced today the arrest of DEREK BROOMES, the former president and chief executive officer of a nonprofit housing organization...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Patrick Tyronne Mosho, 31, of Chubbuck, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury from Mosho firing a rifle into a group of people, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez, announced. Mosho was indicted on Oct. 27, 2015, by a federal grand jury in Pocatello.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: HANKSVILLE, Utah-Brontosaurus-size your summer with a free 30-45 minute guided tour of the Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur Quarry beginning May 25-June 3, Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., weather permitting.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted the importance of repealing and replacing Obamacare and noted the skyrocketing costs associated with the unworkable law.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On May 23, 2017, U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Anatoly Samgorodsky, age 65, of Sarasota, Florida to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to bribe a public official. Judge Chuang also ordered Samgorodsky to pay a $25,000 fine and restitution in the amount of $70,000.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated score of the Trumpcare bill...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Wilmington has returned indictments charging FRANKIE GARCIA-PINEDA, age 36, of Mexico, TYRONE LEONARD JAMES, age 55, of Jamaica, and TEOFILO PINO-CANELA, age 55, of Mexico, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to four years of imprisonment and three years of supervised release on his conviction of Possession with the Intent to Distribute Heroin, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced that Rodoundy Smith, age 31, of South Bend, Indiana was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, after a two-day jury trial before United States District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Orlando, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the sentence of Gregory McDonald (19, Orlando).
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Boise, ID - The Bureau of Land Management is announcing the temporary suspension of wild horse and burro adoptions at the Boise BLM Wild Horse Corrals due to the presence of strangles, or equine distemper, in several horses.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Effective Wednesday, May 24 the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of the Coronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Tumacácori National Historical Park, and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and the Arizona Division of Forestry and Fire Management will implement campfire and smoking restrictions in southeastern Arizona.
