News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 33-year-old resident of Corpus Christi has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute and receiving a misbranded drug in interstate commerce, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez along with...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - After a top federal watchdog identified dozens of priority recommendations for federal agencies, including identifying potentially duplicative government programs, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is requesting information from two government agencies about how they are measuring if those programs...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: The superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in areas of the 1980 park additions that are north of the crest of the Alaska Range.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - There’s still time to apply to be a member of the Bureau of Land Management’s Wyoming Resource Advisory Council. The nomination period closes Dec. 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two local men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of selling methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Carlos Cantu, 39, and Steven Douglas Schad, 29, previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Conspired to Bribe the President of Chad and the Foreign Minister of Uganda.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago Police Department officer was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for using unreasonable force against two individuals while on duty.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: The 3R road construction project in Arches National Park, which began last March, is nearing completion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Justin McBride, 29, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to eight years in federal prison for armed bank robbery. McBride pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 29, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: More than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation, or cutting (FGM/C). FGM/C refers to cutting and other procedures that injure the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Nicholas T. Richard, 39, of Lewiston, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information for Serial Bank Robber in Palm Beach County.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Dear Ms. Goodridge-Keiller: I write regarding the Department’s conflict of interest and ethics compliance review processes in light of recent revelations surrounding the use of offshore tax shelters by high-net-worth members of the Administration. Over the past year, this Administration has repeatedly...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft environmental assessment on Grand Valley Irrigation Company’s Phase 4 - 540 Canal Lining Project located in Mesa County, Colorado. The project would line approximately 1.64 miles of open irrigation ditch with an impervious liner covered with shotcrete. The purpose of the project is to reduce salinity loading in the Colorado River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Kenneth A. Blanco, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Arches and Canyonlands national parks are open all year, but the park’s visitor center operations change with the arrival of winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Preston Pope, age 27, of Omaha, Nebraska, was found guilty by a jury yesterday of robbery and firearms charges occurring in August 2015. The federal trial started Nov. 14, 2017 in front of U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Cheyenne County man was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Illinois man pleaded guilty Monday to being the getaway driver in a $53,000 hold up at a Verizon store in Village West, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The robbers held store employees at gunpoint and bound them with zip ties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today Barrett Johnson, 34, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute MDA, also known as “Molly," a Scheduled I controlled substance, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.
