News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Christopher Grant Watson, 44, of Perryville, a former pharmacist and owner of Perry County Food and Drug Store, will be spending the next 10 years in federal prison, announced Stephen G. Azzam, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) New Orleans Division, Patrick C.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for heroin and para-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl trafficking while on federal supervised release for a prior heroin trafficking conviction, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: A rockfall of undetermined size occurred in Yosemite National Park this afternoon at about 1:55 p.m. this afternoon. The rockfall was reported to have happened from El Capitan, a granite monolith above Yosemite Valley. The release point appears to be near the "Waterfall Route", a popular climbing route on the East Buttress of El Capitan. This is the area where Horsetail Fall flows in winter and spring conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of possessing methamphetamine to distribute and possessing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EDWARD TARKA, a podiatrist with a practice in Norwich, has entered into a civil settlement with the government in which he will pay $35,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: FBI Denver Seeks Public's Assistance in Identifying Bank Robber.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of committee leaders today asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to examine certain Department of Energy (DOE) oversight practices that may impede mission performance. Specifically, committee leaders requested GAO examine contractor data calls - requests for various information from the contractors running the national labs and performing other projects for the Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Martin Garcia, 37, of Socorro, N.M., was arraigned this morning on a five-count indictment charging him with violating the Hobbs Act and federal firearms laws. The charges in the indictment arise out of an Aug. 29, 2017 crime spree during which Garcia allegedly robbed two commercial businesses...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: U.S. Representatives John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) Ranking Member of the House Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, issued the following statement today after an annual refugee consultation with Secretary of State Rex ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and committee members Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Boozman (R-AR), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Mike Rounds ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing on “Forest Management to Mitigate Wildfires: Legislative Solutions." The hearing focused on forest management and the mitigation of catastrophic wildfires.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to new reports that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price has been using taxpayer funds to book private jets to visit colleagues and spend time with family...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At today’s 2:00 p.m. hearing in the Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee, Natural Resources Committee Democrats will reject Chairman Rob Bishop’s (R-Utah) latest legislative attempt to politicize the federal process for recognizing Native American tribes and underscore...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: NPLD volunteers working on a habitat project in Winnemucca in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jorge Costilla-Sanchez has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana as well as two counts of assault on a federal officer, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Adam L. Smith, the former Chief Procurement Officer for the City of Atlanta, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to accept more than $30,000 in bribe payments from a vendor who obtained millions of dollars in city contracts.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will implement new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at Clinton National Airport (LIT) beginning this week. The new procedures, which were announced earlier this year, require travelers to place all electronics larger than a cell phone in bins for X-ray screening in standard lanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Sept. 18, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Release Date: Sept. 26, 2017. Contact: Kelly Carroll. Phone: 671-333-4050. October Public Programs at War in the Pacific National Historical Park. October 7, Saturday: at Asan Beach - “Art in the Park". Learn to paint during our artist led painting sessions! Come and embrace your creativity and learn...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy operating in and around Waltham.
