News from December 2018
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore will hold civic engagement - through the Planning, Environment, and Public Comment website to discuss possible fee increases in 2019. The park is proposing the removal of seasonal rental rates and moving to a flat rate for each cabin. These rates can be viewed on the park website at www.nps.gov/calo. The park has not raised the cabin fees since they began managing the camps in 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Two employees who worked for the Blackfeet Tribe’s Head Start Program in Browning admitted in federal court on Thursday to stealing money through an overall scheme involving others in which an estimated $232,000 was fraudulently claimed as overtime pay, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Federal Subsistence Board eliminates winter cow moose season and closes moose hunting to non-Federally qualified users in Unit 23.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Donnie Yingling was sentenced today in federal court to 84 months in prison for distributing crystal methamphetamine, conspiring to deal in firearms without a license, and related crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Ray Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, Senior U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: A 26-year-old citizen of Mexico was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison after authorities caught him transporting fentanyl, a powerful narcotic 50 times more potent than heroin, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Samuel Hogans, of Baltimore, Maryland, has admitted to heroin distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation on her conviction of healthcare fraud and possession with the intent to distribute and distribution of opiate painkiller, oxycodone, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Dear Acting Inspector General Kelly: We respectfully request that your office conduct a review into the medical care provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Health Service Corps to Mariee Juarez, an 18-month old toddler that tragically died soon after being released from the South...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Georgia man pleaded guilty in federal district court in Boston today in connection with his role in a bogus advance fee Jamaican lottery scheme in which victims were defrauded of more than $1 million.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Recent storms have set the stage for winter recreation at Mount Rainier National Park with enough snow at Paradise for snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and snowboarding. However, the Paradise snow play area remains closed due to an insufficient snow depth to open. A sufficient snowpack is needed throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: A Boca Raton attorney was convicted by a federal jury this afternoon of 33 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering offenses in connection with a scheme to fraudulently register shell companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issue a class of free-trading shares in the companies that were secretly controlled, and sell these shares as part of pump-and-dump stock swindles.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a joint statement after today’s closed-door interview with former FBI Director James Comey...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Jared Ortega-Peguero, 26, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in a conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Juan Gaspar-Adan, age 24, a citizen of Mexico, and Bartolo Lopez-Garcia, age 25, a citizen of Guatemala, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, to the crime of unlawful reentry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Mr. Trey Lund, Acting Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations in New Orleans.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four individuals in the country illegally who have Interpol warrants based on crimes they committed in their home countries were among 105 foreign nationals taken into custody during a five-day operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week in New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: In 2015, Alexis C. Norman pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud. But while awaiting sentencing, she concocted another healthcare fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: HOUGHTON, MI - Applications for Isle Royale National Park's 2019 Artist-in-Residence Program will be accepted between January 2 and Feb. 16, 2019. This program provides artists the opportunity to become part of a long-established tradition of interpreting national parks through art.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Earlier this week, National Park Service (NPS) researchers discovered the remains of P-64, a male mountain lion who survived the flames of the Woolsey Fire, but died a few weeks afterwards. Although the cause of death is not known at this time, P-64’s paws were visibly burned. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife will conduct a necropsy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Angelo Efthimiatos, 49, of Sudbury, Vermont, was convicted yesterday of flying an airplane without a valid pilot’s license following a two-day jury trial. Mr. Efthimiatos faces up to two years of incarceration on the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A felon who was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm that was discovered during a traffic stop was sentenced to 75 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
