News from February 2018
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The thinning of trees in the Pine Nut Mountains has produced piles of branches which will be burned starting Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, and continue through the following week. The burning will happen on days when enough precipitation has fallen to prevent fire from spreading beyond...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: ***MEDIA ADVISORY***. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The Investiture Ceremony for Mike Stuart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia (SDWV), will take place on Friday, March 2, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. Stuart will be joined by United States Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Congressman Evan Jenkins...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Monessen, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 96 months in prison on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Crater Lake, OR - Crater Lake National Park is proposing an increase to entrance fees into the park. The single vehicle entrance fee would change from $15 to $25 for a seven-day pass. The park's annual pass would increase from $30 to $50. The current rate of $10 per individual and $10 per motorcycle would increase to $12 for an individual and $20 for a motorcycle. The park is proposing this increase begin May 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Multiple gang members are among the dozens of individuals arrested in a major law enforcement operation targeting violent criminals in central Arkansas. Thursday’s early-morning takedown highlights the coordinated work of federal, state, and local agencies to combat drug and gun crime in Little Rock, and is part of both new and continuing efforts by all law enforcement in the area to address the rise in violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - United States Attorney Brian J. Kuester announced today that the Department of Justice, along with many of its law enforcement partners, effected the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. These cases involved over 250 defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday in federal court, before United States District Judge Terrance W. Boyle, JONATHON REX LEACH, 33, of Raleigh, pled guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Trafficking in Contraband Cigarettes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Peter Morency, 34, of Derry was sentenced in federal court to serve 35 years in prison for producing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago-area attorney was sentenced earlier this month to four years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Tucson, AZ - On Tuesday, Feb. 20, work began at the front entrance to Saguaro National Park, Rincon Mountain District (east) to replace and install a new automatic front gate. During all phases of construction, traffic will be restricted down to a single lane. Once completed, the new gate will decrease operational costs incurred through opening and closing the park each day.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kassandra Mattox, age 25, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Sept. 19, 2017, by a federal grand jury on multiple counts of making false statements to federally licensed firearms dealers. The indictment was unsealed yesterday following the arrest of Mattox.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRIAN BURNS, age 34, of Reserve, pled guilty today to charges relating to narcotics trafficking and illegal possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: A Miami-area man was sentenced to 60 months in prison today for his role in a $63 million health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct community mental health center located in Miami that purported to provide partial hospitalization program (PHP) services to individuals suffering from mental illness.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRYCE ALEXANDER LAISTER, 25, formerly of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of armed bank robbery and admitted that he robbed a total of five Connecticut banks between November 2016 and June 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- A new exhibit in the Dante Fascell Visitor Center gallery features mixed-media sculptures, paintings, linocuts and etchings of marine life and shipwrecks by Boca Raton artist Ron Garrett. A free “meet the artist" reception occurs from 6 - 9 p.m. on March 3, 2018. The reception includes...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Join owl expert Norman Smith for a talk at Cape Cod National Seashore’s Salt Pond Visitor Center on Saturday, March 10 at 1:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A formerly licensed physician, Nicholas J. Capos Jr., 67, of Yuba City, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to four years and four months in prison for selling prescriptions of controlled substances such as oxycodone and methadone, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Juan Luis Cantu a/k/a "Flaco," 24, of La Joya, Texas, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned five indictments today against six additional defendants arrested as part of last week’s multi-agency coordinated series of searches and arrests throughout Northern California, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a resident of Louisville, Ky., were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
