News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Salt Lake City-Bureau of Land Management employee Clay Stewart of southern Utah has received the prestigious “Making a Difference Award" for his contributions to the agency’s Volunteer Program. Stewart was among five individuals, one couple, one sibling pair, and one group honored nationally for outstanding volunteer service or leadership on BLM public lands.
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: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting Federal Officers and Discharging a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence was sentenced on May 22, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Kyle Henry Marcum, 27, of Star, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to aiding andabetting the sale of a stolen firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Marcum and co-defendant Bruce Threet were indicted in February by a federal grand in Boise.
By State Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the passage by the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of his resolution underscoring the importance of a United States-Mexico relationship based on mutual respect (H.Res.336 ). Introduced with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Three Martinsburg, West Virginia residents and one Virginia man were indicted by a federal grand jury in March 2017 for cocaine and heroin, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Case Involves Dual-Use Technology With Military Applications.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) today identified the Ruelas Torres Drug Trafficking (Ruelas Torres DTO) and its leader, Mexican national Jose Luis Ruelas Torres, as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Lance Hardiman, Justin Pressley, and Rodrick Berklery of Longs, South Carolina, were charged in a 8-count federal indictment arising from the armed takeover of the South State Bank in North Myrtle Beach on May 4, 2016, and the ensuing high speed chase and exchange of gun fire that followed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: 911 Call Led to Evacuation and Emergency Response Last Summer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Bobby Grimes of Mobile was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment. Grimes’ sentencing followed entry of a February 2017 guilty plea to prohibited possession of a firearm. Grimes is prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition by virtue of a prior felony conviction for Robbery, First Degree in Mobile County in 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - The public is invited to join the Council for the Bighorn Range and the BLM for a volunteer work-day on the Poison Creek Trail on Saturday, June 3, 2017 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III, announced today that an indictment was returned by a grand jury sitting in the United States District Court in Macon, Georgia on May 11, 2017, which charged 16 defendants with drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following remarks at a press conference today regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) new score for the Republican Trumpcare bill...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Victor Purdie, 56, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a charge stemming from an incident in October 2016 in which he repeatedly kicked and punched another man in the face, causing the victim’s death a few months later, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Biscayne National Park released a prospectus outlining a business opportunity to provide offers on a concession contract. The new contract includes visitor boat trips to scenic park islands. Tours will depart from Dinner Key Marina in Miami and the Dante Fascell Visitor Center at Convoy Point near Homestead.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On May 24, 2017, United States District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Braxton Michael Monson, Jr., 31, of Redmond, Oregon, to 80 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Upon his release from prison, Monson will be on supervised release for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
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 DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wy. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on May 19th charging Powell psychologist Gibson Condie with 234 counts of health care fraud involving approximately $6.8 million in fraudulent bills submitted to Wyoming Medicaid, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming...
