News from September 2017
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Eastern National, in partnership with Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, would like to invite you to meet author Robert Carter Saturday Sept. 16, 2017 to commemorate the 154th anniversary to the Battle of Chickamauga.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: PHILADEPHIA - An investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia resulted in the sentencing of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, man to over 15 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, questioned whether the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., business owner has been sentenced in federal court for a wire fraud scheme in which she embezzled more than $800,000 from her clients, and for failing to pay more than $170,000 in taxes on any of the embezzled income.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: SEPT. 11, 2017 - States on the Pacific Coast and most of those in the Northeast such as New Hampshire and Massachusetts had higher levels of broadband internet use compared to the national average (77 percent), according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report on Computer and Internet Use in the United States:...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Pilar Angel Lucero, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for violating federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition. Lucero will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On September 8, 2017, Stanislav “Steven" Yelizarov, age 27, of Pikesville, Maryland, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of Use, Carry and Discharge of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence Causing the Death of Another. The victim of the 2009 murder was Wayne Ruder.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Four U.S. Forest Service smokejumpers are working to contain a small one-tenth of an acre lightning strike fire on the upper reaches of Scorpion Canyon on Santa Cruz Island. Containment is expected tonight or by Tuesday morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 13 years in jail and 10 years of supervised release on his conviction for sex trafficking of a child and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Pregnant Victim Knocked to Sidewalk and Groped by Naked Defendant.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park’s first “Poets in the Parks," Artist-in-Residence will be Los Angeles Poet Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo. Bermejo has published poetry in the American Poetry Review, crazyhorse, Calyx, and Acentos Review, among others. Bermejo’s latest collection of poems is “Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge.".
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: VERMILION CLIFFS, Ariz. - California Condors will be released to the wild in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in northern Arizona at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 30. The public is welcome to observe the release from a viewing area where spotting scopes will be set up and project personnel will be available to answer questions.
By State Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Sanctions, Diplomacy, and Information: Pressuring North Korea.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Detroit, Michigan man pled guilty today to a drug trafficking charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A West Texas man was sentenced Friday to 151 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: U.S. Postal Service Mail Carrier Convicted in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field office invites volunteers to celebrate National Public Lands Day on Sept. 16 by helping to maintain routes within the Dry Creek area near Montrose, Colorado, and Sept. 30 to help construct a route to connect the Burn Canyon trailhead to the Burn Canyon trail system near Norwood, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Stevens, 53, of Olean, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with bank fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A convicted sex offender from Long Beach was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to attempted sex trafficking of a child for responding to an online advertisement that offered sex with a 15-year-old girl in exchange for $200.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: ROSWELL, N.M. - Beginning in late September, the Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burn operations north of the town of Lincoln. The burn unit includes 13 acres of cut and piled piñon and juniper located on the north side of the Rio Bonito in Tract 3 of the Rio Bonito Acquired Lands, adjacent to Lincoln. Because weather and fuel conditions can affect the pace of this work, the operation may take several days to complete.
