News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: The extreme fire danger preventative measures at Carlsbad Caverns National Park have been cancelled due to light precipitation combined with cooler temperatures, decreased winds, and high humidity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - John Lowell Goff, Jr. (46, Ruskin) today pleaded guilty to four counts of bank robbery. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. His co-defendant, Lemuel Tony Davis (43, Eufala, Alabama), previously pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. Sentencing dates have not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On April 26, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Jorge L. Rodríguez-Santos, a.k.a. “Macho" for carjacking resulting in death, kidnapping resulting in death, and using a firearm during a crime of violence causing murder, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is in charge of the investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on today’s announcement that the Trump administration will seek to modify the Well Control Rule, which regulates offshore oil and gas drilling. The move comes shortly after the eighth anniversary of the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon disaster that destroyed much of the Gulf economy and remains the country’s most harmful offshore environmental disaster.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: U.S. Citizens Provided Services, Materials, and Equipment For Use By Their Company in Tehran, Iran.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS: After 35 years of service, Frank Keith Moses has decided to retire and not have to worry about responding to call-outs for down trees in terrible weather. He’ll be able to stay in and be nice and dry and warm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Today, the Republican Majority of the House Judiciary Committee held an official hearing with pro-Trump social media personalities “Diamond and Silk," who gave testimony to the Committee on their belief that social media companies are engaged in a plot to silence conservative voices on the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Mexican national was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: VERNAL, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management Vernal Field Office (VFO) is seeking public comment on two environmental assessments for a vegetation treatment project in Uintah County. The Miners Draw project, located six miles east of Jensen, and the Augusi Canyon project, located 53 miles south of Jensen, have been proposed to reduce hazardous fuels in greater sage grouse habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Tomorrow, Northern Florida residents can join citizens across the nation in safely and anonymously disposing of their expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications during the 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, announced United States Attorney Christopher P. Canova.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Shan Shi, 53, of Houston, and Gang Liu, 32, a Chinese national, were charged yesterday by superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit economic espionage for the benefit of CBM-Future New Material Science and Technology Co. Ltd. (CBMF), a Chinese company based in Taizhou. Both businessmen were previously...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: April 27, 2018 ̶ Researchers from the U.S. Census Bureau will join other demographers, sociologists, economists and professionals from across the country and from different disciplines at the Population Association of America annual conference from April 26-28, 2018, in Denver, Colo. PAA offers a forum for Census Bureau researchers to present their research for professional discussion and share their findings with the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - This week, Dwight Phillip Bivens, 29, of Fresno, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 63 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Bivens had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of Hobbs Act Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shamar R. Chester, 42, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, was sentenced to 21 months in prison and five years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Darnell D. Devaughn, age 33, of Queens County, New York, pled guilty yesterday to distributing heroin and crack cocaine in Albany County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The founder and former president of National Fish and Seafood (National Fish), a major seafood processing company in Gloucester, was sentenced today for failing to pay taxes on approximately $2.9 million in income he earned from 2006 to 2013-money which the defendant agreed he fraudulently diverted from National Fish.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: Fraud Scam Defrauded Companies of Millions of Dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Valerie Cayatineto, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 37 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2018
News Release: A Youngstown man was indicted in federal court that he took still images of himself sexually assaulting a young girl, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
