News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Chad Peterson, 29, Osseo, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to three years of probation for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Peterson pleaded guilty to this charge on June 30, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Vicksburg, MS: Portions of Union Avenue inside Vicksburg National Military Park will be closed from Monday, October 16th through Wednesday, October 18th to facilitate geotechnical studies of soil erosion along the roadway.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KENNETH JOHNS, age 45, of Rosharon, Texas, was charged today in a three-count indictment in relation to the veracity of blowout preventer testing on an offshore oil and gas platform located at Ship Shoal 225 positioned on a federal mineral lease in the...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va - Press apples and make cider with the living history staff and volunteers at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on Saturday and Sunday, October 21 and 22. During the event, Drink Your Apples: Roeder’s Tavern Cider-Making, 1860, learn about the time-honored tradition which produced a popular 19th century beverage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Camden, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: BOISE - A federal grand jury indicted five members and associates of the Sureno Mob Trece gang for crimes including drug distribution and unlawful possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. The charges stem from an investigation by the Treasure Valley Metro Violent Crimes Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Frederick A. McShan, 37, of Steubenville, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. Distirct Court to 288 months in prison for his role in running a Steubenville-area heroin-trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Poplar Grove resident was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for distributing 448 grams of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
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By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - Due to subsiding fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management is removing the fire restrictions for Sheridan, Johnson and Campbell counties on Oct. 13, 2017. This decision was reached in coordination with our county partners. Partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands managed by the BLM.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The ranking members of six House committees today sent a letter to their Republican counterparts and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan urging them to allow H.R. 3548 - the Republican bill authorizing the costly, destructive expansion of the border wall - to be considered for amendment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Herndon man with threatening to murder officials, officers, and employees of the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. State Department, as well as Virginia law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan T. Cullinane, who handed the case, stated that between January and February of 2015 in the Western District of New York, the defendant, on three different occasions, distributed one-ounce quantities of cocaine in exchange for $1,400 on each occasion.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Death Valley National Park announces this fall and winter season’s camping options. Most campgrounds open, some will open later as repairs are completed and seasonal staff report for duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Two men from Northwest Ohio were indicted in federal court for attempting to distribute methamphetamine, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Frankfort man has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison, for producing sexually explicit images of a minor and then sending them to another man.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Mexican national pleaded guilty Wednesday to reentering the United States illegally after having been previously removed twice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Scott tax preparer pleaded guilty Tuesday to putting false information on clients’ tax forms that caused the IRS to pay out more than $105,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Detective Momodu Bondeva Kenton Gondo, age 34, of Owings Mills, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Frederick A. McShan, 37, of Steubenville, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. Distirct Court to 288 months in prison for his role in running a Steubenville-area heroin-trafficking ring.
