News from September 2017
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: National Park Service Dispatch at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area received a report on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, at approximately 5:20 p.m., of an accident in which a six-month old boy received major head trauma. It was reported the accident happened when a houseboat was trying to dock on a beach...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Latecia P. Hill, 51, of Garland, Texas, pleaded guilty today, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud stemming from a scheme to defraud Medicare through the submission of false claims for hearing related services. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Finance Committee announced it would hold a hearing on the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson health care bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: In Waco today, a federal jury convicted a Dripping Springs man for allegedly making threats to kill individuals on Fort Hood in back in February announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Canaan, Waymart, Pennsylvania, were indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting another inmate with a homemade weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been charged with a federal drug violation after agents seized more than 50 kilograms of heroin and cocaine from his attic apartment on the South Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Jason Dean Barnes (41, Jacksonville) has been found guilty of receiving child sexual abuse images and videos over the Internet using a “dark web" application following a bench trial. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison. A sentencing date has been set for Dec. 18, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing on reforming the business tax code. The goal of the hearing is to examine ways to create a healthier economic environment that will encourage job creators to invest in the United States and increase their competitiveness in the global market.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two men and one woman have been ordered to prison in separate, but similar crimes involving the smuggling of drugs, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 24-year-old Corpus Christi man has been charged with the attempted sex trafficking of a 14-year-old girl, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, a/k/a “Jay Taylor," a/k/a “Josie Reeser," pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to wire fraud and sending threatening communications, in connection with his...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy today announced $22 million in funding through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 18 innovative projects as part of the Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources (MARINER) program. MARINER projects will develop the tools to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is committed to ensuring public safety by working directly and through partnerships to assist federal firearms licensees (FFL) and federal explosives licensees and permittees (FEL/FEP) in complying with federal laws and regulations.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Gettysburg, PA: National Park Service (NPS) staff at Gettysburg National Military Park (NMP) are supporting parks throughout Florida, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic coast to assist with clean-up and damage assessment efforts in the wake of Hurricane Irma. There are currently 20 staff members from Gettysburg NMP deployed to the NPS Eastern Incident Management Team (IMT) supporting the hurricane response.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, a/k/a “Jay Taylor," a/k/a “Josie Reeser," pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to wire fraud and sending threatening communications, in connection with his...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Incident information. Photos of Hurricane Irma damage and response. Homestead, Fla. - The National Park Service (NPS) Eastern Incident Management Team (Team) currently has 311 laborers, saw teams, arborists, heavy equipment operators and other employees on the ground throughout South Florida and along...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will enter into a two-year water conveyance pilot study with Reclamation District 1004, to annually convey up to 14,354 acre-feet of Central Valley Project yield to the Sutter National Wildlife Refuge in Sutter County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Raul Meza, age 48, and a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that a federal jury convicted Stephen Jones, 30, of Rochester, NY, of conspiring to recruit underage girls to commit commercial sex acts, and sex trafficking of minors and adults by force, fraud or coercion. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life.
