News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that Yellowstone National Park will modify its entrance fees beginning June 1, 2018 to provide additional funding for infrastructure and maintenance needs that enhance the visitor experience. Effective June 1, the park entrance fee will be $35 per vehicle or $30 per motorcycle. An annual park pass will cost $70.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: BRENTWOOD, TENNESSEE MAN SENTENCED FOR POSSESSING UNREGIGISTERED SUB-MACHINE GUNS.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The former chief financial officer of a Kansas City, Mo., company was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling more than $6.5 million from his employer.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Yuma, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Yuma Field Office Lower Colorado River (LCR) Travel Management Plan (TMP) public scoping period has been extended until May 15.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) released an environmental assessment (EA) for a 30-day public comment period on April 13, 2018. The EA is meant to address the presence of trespass livestock in Mesa Verde National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced an Albertville lawyer and former part-time municipal judge to 17½ years in prison on a child pornography crime, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Charles Poltenson, age 28, of Salina, New York, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for sexually exploiting three children.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Pahrump, Nevada, man was sentenced today to a total of 180 months in federal prison for selling a stolen revolver and a stolen semi-automatic rifle with a large capacity magazine, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon Scooter Libby...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: A Mexican citizen living in Indiana was indicted for traveling to Brook Park, Ohio, to have sex with what he believed was a 14-year-old.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: CONRAD DEWAYNE WEBB, 53, of Glenrock, Wyoming was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on April 6, 2018 for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Webb was arrested in Glenrock, Wyoming. He received twenty-four months of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six months of supervised release. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated this case.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today introduced the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 4), a five-year bill to reauthorize the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, provide long-term stability for the Nation’s aviation community, continue investment in U.S. airports, and make necessary reforms to improve American competitiveness and safety in aviation.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: A Special Agent with the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB) was among those honored by the Department of Justice and US Attorney's Office during National Crime Victims' Rights Week. This year's observance takes place April 8-14 with the theme "Expand the Circle: Reach All Victims.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Winston-Salem, North Carolina, tax return preparers pleaded guilty today to aiding in the preparation of a false tax return for an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) undercover agent, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G. T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - House and Senate Democratic Committee health leaders called on the Trump Administration to withdraw a proposed rule that would encourage the sale of junk health plans that will undermine consumer protections, sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces, and expose consumers to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - US Attorney William C. Lamar and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge at the FBI announced today that Nathan Caleb Brown, age 19, of Desoto County, Mississippi, appeared today before United States Magistrate Judge Roy Percy at the Federal Courthouse in Oxford, Mississippi pursuant...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions will travel to Raleigh, North Carolina, on TUESDAY April 17, 2018, to deliver remarks on the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: A Ravenna man was charged in federal court after defrauding an insurance company out of approximately $94,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Timothy L. Jennings, Sr., 61, of Washington, D.C., has pled guilty to robbing two banks last summer in downtown Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dominique McDowell, 26, of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of butyryl fentanyl and U-47700, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
