News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Report shows visitor spending supports 6,666 jobs in local economy.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Yoder, Ranking Member Ryan, and Chairman Frelinghuysen, for your work on this bill. I want to start by congratulating our minority counsel Adam Berg on the birth of his second daughter, Leila.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
Release: Grand Rapids, Mich. - Alert TSA officers at Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR) discovered a loaded firearm at the security checkpoint on Wednesday morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Adrian Green, aged 33, from Hawkinsville, GA, was sentenced on April 18, 2018 to 14 years confinement, consecutive to a previous 60-month sentence, in front of the Honorable Marc Thomas Treadwell in Macon, GA.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: The Detroit One collaboration of local, state, and federal law enforcement has led to charges against six members of the Latin Counts street gang for committing murder conspiracy and two non-fatal shootings that occurred in southwest Detroit on October 7, 2017, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC- [UPDATE] The National Park Service is rescheduling the road work on Piney Branch Parkway from Friday, April 27 to Monday, April 30 due to forecast rain.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera today sentenced David A. Hickman, 29, of Albuquerque, N.M., to 20 years of imprisonment for his conviction on five arson charges, which he pled guilty to under an agreement in which he also acknowledged committing or attempting to commit four additional ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of Esther’s Fashion Paradise was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for defrauding the SNAP benefits program and selling counterfeit merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Gloucester woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role in a conspiracy to traffic steroids and launder money.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Baltimore, Maryland man has been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on March 20, 2018 on a heroin distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Defendant Brandished Box-Cutter, Demanded Money. WASHINGTON - Michael Jones, 45, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to seven years in prison for attacking and attempting to rob the owner of a market in Northwest Washington, while armed with a box-cutter, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Defendant fired four shots while in his residence, and under the influence of methamphetamine and other drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Hedgesville, West Virginia man has been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on March 20, 2018 on a cocaine distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: MOAB, UT-A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.5 million visitors to Arches National Park in 2017 spent $182 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 2,869 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $241 million. The same report shows the 742,000 visitors to Canyonlands National Park spent $44 million, supported 640 local jobs, and produced $52 million in cumulative benefit to the local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. -Today, after selecting a jury and hearing the Government’s opening statement, defendants Hector Piedrahita-Sinisterra, José Ciro Segura-Sánchez, and Juan Nolberto González-Ramírez, entered guilty pleas in a drug trafficking case before United States District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RUFINO MEJIA-ACOSTA, a/k/a Miguel A. Pacheco-Gonzalez (MEJIA-ACOSTA), age 38, a citizen of Mexico, residing in Chalmette, Louisiana, was sentenced today after having previously pleading guilty to illegal use of a social security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Beckley pled guilty to possession of a weapon at the prison. Stuart praised the efforts of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SAGLE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management’s Coeur d’Alene Field Office has issued a draft environmental assessment (EA) to address fuels buildup at the Gamlin Lake Special Recreation Management Area, located 8 miles southeast of Sandpoint, Idaho. The BLM plans to conduct hazardous fuels reduction activities, forest health improvements and minor recreation improvements on the 328-acre site.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Wilfredo Reyes, 60, of Portland, pleaded guilty today in federal court to falsely reporting a suspicious package on a TriMet MAX train.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Michael Gaudette, 36, of Hiram, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 100 months in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Gaudette pled guilty on Nov. 28, 2017.
