News from August 2018
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Grand Teton National Park will initiate a project to protect native aquatic communities by using a chemical pesticide treatment to kill non-native species in the Kelly Warm Spring and outflow the week of August 20. A temporary closure will be implemented in the areas affected by the treatment, and the treated areas will be signed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: A Canadian man was charged in federal court after sending scores of messages over social media attempting to coerce an 11-year-old from Ohio to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Katie Stygles, 29, of Piermont, New Hampshire, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Rutland to five years of probation following her guilty plea to a charge of credit card fraud. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford also ordered that Stygles pay restitution totaling $71,583.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: CHALLIS, Idaho- The BLM Idaho Falls District and the U.S. Forest Service Salmon-Challis National Forest signed the Jim McClure-Jerry Peak Wilderness Plan and associated environmental assessment (EA) documents, marking the completion of a three-year planning effort. The clock started ticking when Congressman Mike Simpson’s legislation was signed into law in August 2015, creating three new wilderness areas in the heart of central Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Arthur Jordan, 24, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of interstate communication of threat to injure, was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Accuserv Pharmacy, with two locations in North Huntington and Pittsburgh, and its owner Marvin P. Sheffler, Jr., a registered pharmacist, agreed to pay $100,000 in civil penalties to resolve allegations that they failed to keep and maintain accurate records of controlled substances, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Starsheka Mixon, 35, of Pinole, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to three years and one month in prison for a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Kenneth R. McLemore, 29, of Destin, Justin G. Reimche, 39, of Lorain, Ohio, and Alex A. Mena, 30, of Stockton, California, were sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to drug and firearm offenses. On June 7, McLemore was sentenced to 106 months in prison. On July 30, Mena...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A man who stole a car in New Bedford, Mass., in April 2018 and then used it as his getaway vehicle after robbing a bank in Tiverton, R.I., pled guilty in federal court in Providence today to a bank robbery charge.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: MILWAUKEE, WI - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has joined with Gilbane Building Company and the Milwaukee Building & Construction Trades Council in signing a strategic partnership to promote worker safety and health during the construction of the Potawatomi Hotel Expansion in Milwaukee.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has concluded a wild burro gather in the Piute Mountain Herd Area, San Bernardino County, caused by extreme temperatures and insufficient water availability at Fenner Spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Marlin E. Beckner, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, has admitted to a methamphetamine distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, WILLIAM EDWARD WHITE, 34, of Plymouth, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III for Hobbs Act robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Judge Dever sentenced WHITE to 129 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BERNEL MICHAEL RHODES, age 20, a resident of Kenner, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who led police officers on a high-speed chase after escaping from the hospital where he was confined pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Jonas Lee, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to a misdemeanor assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CELIO JAVIER JUAREZ-AGUILAR, age 25, a native of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that NERI OSBELI ARGUETA-CHUN, age 25, a native of Guatemala, was charged today in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A North Carolina man was sentenced in federal court today for the sexual exploitation of a child in Joplin, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Neddanyl Sims, 27, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Nenahnezad, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assault and firearms charges. Sims entered the plea under a plea agreement that recommends he be sentenced to six years of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.