News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LAFAYETTE, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph urges the public to discard unused prescription drugs this weekend at area collection sites during Drug Take Back Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Omar Dixon, 37, of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to 84 months’ imprisonment. Dixon had previously pleaded guilty to robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania returned two separate, but related, superseding indictments charging 39 defendants with committing numerous drug trafficking, money laundering, financial structuring and firearms crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: If you love raptors and want to learn how to identify them, the Bureau of Land Management Rawlins Field Office is inviting the public to a free raptor identification class and migratory bird walk. The BLM strives to be a good neighbor by providing opportunities for the public to interact and learn more about their public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morristown, New Jersey, woman appeared in federal court today to face charges for her alleged role in an international procurement network that smuggled over $2 million worth of aircraft components from the United States to Iran in violation of export control laws, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel today requesting an investigation into whether there is a pattern of prohibited personnel practices taking place at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant Killed an African Elephant inside Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park and then Made Efforts to Export it to South Africa.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats today sent Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a list of hundreds of follow-up questions that he could either not answer at the hearing or questions that Democratic Committee members developed as a result of his testimony before the Committee.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) called on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, to clarify his role in the use of authorities in the Safe Drinking Water ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former postal employee was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for embezzling over $22,000 from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - Seven members of a human smuggling group were sentenced April 25 for their role in harboring and transporting more than 200 illegal aliens from the Rio Grande Valley to Houston.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA - This notice is to inform visitors of temporary closures to foot traffic and minimum approach distance of 100 yards at four islands in Glacier Bay. The purpose of these closures is to protect high concentrations of nesting seabirds by minimizing human caused disturbance and mortalities of chicks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy sentenced a Howard, South Dakota, man convicted of taking, killing, and possessing migratory birds on April 23, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - As the nation celebrates National Park Week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced that visitor spending in communities near national parks in 2017 resulted in a $35.8 billion benefit to the nation’s economy--a nearly $1 billion increase from 2016-- and supported 306,000 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Former Detroit Police Department Officers James Robertson and Marty Tutt were sentenced yesterday to 24 months imprisonment (Robertson) and 12 months imprisonment (Tutt) for accepting bribes from automobile collisions shops in exchange for referring stolen and abandoned vehicles recovered in the City of Detroit to the shops, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Billings Field Office is planning prescribed burning operations on BLM-managed land in Musselshell and Yellowstone County during the upcoming spring months.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Clarks man was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health markup on “Opioid Legislation and H.R. 5554, Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug Amendments Act of 2018:"
By EPA Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel today requesting an investigation into whether there is a pattern of prohibited personnel practices taking place at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: The secondary elevators at Carlsbad Caverns National Park are back in service after a traveling cable was replaced. The traveling cable sends the correct signal to the controls that allow the elevator car to operate.
