News from September 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A cocaine and heroin distributor for the Boston street gang, Columbia Point Dawgs (CPD), was sentenced today in federal court in Boston.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $231,350 civil penalty against Burgess Aircraft Management, LLC, of Springfield, Missouri, for allegedly conducting more than 200 revenue flights with pilots who had not received complete instrument proficiency checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Antonio Ruelas, 33, of Algodones, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to a felony information charging him with participating in a marijuana trafficking conspiracy. Ruelas entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement recommending a sentence not to exceed 36 months of imprisonment.

By State Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A cocaine and heroin distributor for the Boston street gang, Columbia Point Dawgs (CPD), was sentenced today in federal court in Boston.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: A former resident of Grant County, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 27 months in prison, and three years of supervised release for possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of a machinegun, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. SCHUYLER PYATTE BARBEAU, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Antonio Ruelas, 33, of Algodones, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to a felony information charging him with participating in a marijuana trafficking conspiracy. Ruelas entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement recommending a sentence not to exceed 36 months of imprisonment.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eden, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Abuse Sexual Contact was sentenced on Aug. 17, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management today issued a decision on a proposed wild horse gather in Wyoming’s Red Desert Wild Horse Herd Management Area Complex. The decision demonstrates the BLM’s commitment to maintaining healthy wild horses on healthy, productive public rangelands.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A South Gate, California, man who was arrested with 29 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in a tractor trailer was sentenced today to 63 months in prison, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Russian Cyber-Criminal Pleads Guilty to Role in Organized Cybercrime Ring Responsible for $50 Million in Online Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LESHANDA LONG, 36, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to fraud and identity theft offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Three men have been sentenced for illegally transporting a 17-year old girl from El Salvador within the United States and demanding additional money from her family for her release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jaime Santiesteban, 36, of Albuquerque, N.M., made his initial appearance in federal court this morning on a criminal complaint charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Santiesteban was remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, both of which are scheduled for Sept. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Andrew Garcia, age 21, of Conway, was sentenced in Florence yesterday to 100 months imprisonment followed by a three-year term of supervised release. On April 18, 2017, Garcia entered a guilty plea in federal court to three counts of distribution of heroin. United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell imposed the sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of four additional projects from the Productivity Enhanced Algae and ToolKits funding opportunity to receive up to $8.8 million. These projects will deliver high-impact tools and techniques for increasing the productivity of algae organisms...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Three men have been sentenced for illegally transporting a 17-year old girl from El Salvador within the United States and demanding additional money from her family for her release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: 75 of 103 Federal Defendants Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative have Pleaded Guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - No new overnight backcountry permits are being issued at this time due to developing critical fire weather conditions.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2017
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) welcomes 2017’s September Artist-In-Residence (AIR) Amy Falstrom, an Indiana artist currently working and living in Indianapolis, Indiana. Ms. Falstrom’s evocative abstracted landscapes express her inner experience of outer nature and draw on...