News published on Federal Newswire in November 2017

News from November 2017


Fee Free Weekend Planned to Mark End of the 3R Road Construction Project in Arches National Park

News Release: MOAB, UT - The National Park Service is waiving entrance fees to Arches National Park on Saturday, December 9, 2017, and Sunday Dec. 10, 2017, to celebrate completion of the months-long 3R road construction project in the park, and to thank everyone for their patience during the project.


Chairman Gowdy’s Statement on Passage of EQUALS Act

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 4182, the Ensuring a Qualified Civil Service Act of 2017.


News Release: Caribbean-United States Security Cooperation Dialogue. Santo Domingo. Caribbean-United States Framework for Security Cooperation. 1. The CARIBBEAN-U.S. SECURITY COOPERATION DIALOGUE will be held on a periodic basis. The venue for the Dialogue will alternate between the Caribbean and the United States.


News Release: Former THP Sergeant Paid $8,000 to Smuggle Woman into the U.S.


News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a conspiracy to traffic counterfeit steroids, including testosterone and trenbolone, to customers across the country.


Sentencings for November 27 - November 30, 2017

News Release: Daniel Curtis Garner, 41, of Torrington, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Nov. 30, 2017, for possession of child pornography. Garner was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, and was ordered...


El Salvadorian National Pleads Guilty to Illegal Reentry

News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BENJAMIN GARCIA-VASQUEZ, age 50, a native of El Salvador, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal entry of a removed alien.


News Release: MOAB, UT - The National Park Service (NPS) has extended the public comment period for the plan to help alleviate traffic and parking congestion in Arches National Park. The new deadline for comments is Dec. 18, 2017.


Kansas Man Indicted in Robbery, Attempted Robbery

News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Prairie Village man was indicted Wednesday on charges he robbed a shoe store, and attempted to rob a credit union, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.


News Release: Planted evidence resulted in the Federal conviction and imprisonment of two men; The United States asks the Court to vacate the convictions.


News Release: Cincinnati -- Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility procurement. The procurement relates to construction of a water treatment facility needed for mercury remediation at Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12), in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A Firm-Fixed-Price contract is anticipated. The Draft RFP is established as a full and open competition with a four year period of performance.


News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 15-year-old boy in East Boston.


News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of 14 Corpus Christi residents are now in custody and face up to life in prison for their alleged roles related to the activities of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.


New York Man Convicted of Heroin and Crack Charges

News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Carey Ackies, 36, of Jamaica, Queens, New York, was convicted today following a four-day jury trial in U.S. District Court of conspiracy to distribute heroin and 28 grams or more of cocaine base, commonly known as crack, and aiding and abetting the possession with the intent to distribute heroin and 28 grams or more of crack.


Inmate Indicted for Murder-For-Hire Scheme

News Release: BOSTON - An inmate at the Essex County House of Corrections was indicted today in federal court in Boston in connection with a murder-for-hire scheme.


News Release: Daniel Curtis Garner, 41, of Torrington, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Nov. 30, 2017, for possession of child pornography. Garner was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, and was ordered...


Co-Conspirator Sentenced to 157 Months for Methamphetamine Trafficking

News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Miguel Angel Urieta-Jaimes, age 42, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced in federal court in Anderson, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841...


New York Man Sentenced to 28 Months in Prison for Illegally Manufacturing and Possessing Explosives

News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK D. HUBER, 57, of Mahopac, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 28 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally manufacturing and possessing explosives.


News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Eduardo Gutierrez-Zamora, 31, of Amarillo, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 210 months in federal prison on a methamphetamine distribution conviction, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Dallas Division of the DEA and Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.


Willow Springs Man Indicted for Child Pornography

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Willow Springs, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving and distributing child pornography.