News from January 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office released a decision today to expand Phil’s World, a nationally recognized mountain bike trail system six miles east of Cortez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man was sentenced today to six years and three months in federal prison for a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stephen Lee Rhodes, 40, of Clendenin, previously pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography. United States District...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bill Thursday titled Guidance Out Of Darkness, the GOOD Act that would require federal agencies to post regulatory guidance documents online. Making regulatory guidance...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: The conditions at Victory Inn in Detroit’s southwest side were unlike anything Jeremy Forys had ever seen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Paul Carter, 47, of Milwaukee was sentenced today to 21 years in prison, reduced by three years for time served, after pleading guilty on Oct. 6, 2017, to four counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor and sex trafficking, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RENE AMAYA-RAMOS, age 40, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal re-entry of removed alien.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: HEADQUARTERS - TUPELO, MS: A traveler advisory is in effect for the northern terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway from the Tennessee/Alabama line (milepost 342) to Nashville, TN (milepost 444). A Winter Weather Advisory means that periods of snow, sleet, or freezing rain will cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for slippery roads and limited visibility. Travelers should exercise caution when driving on the Parkway in this area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 54-year-old Robstown resident has been found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin as well as conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A jury returned the verdicts today against Rolando Hinojosa following approximately an hour of deliberation and two days of trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia has reached a settlement agreement with textile importer American Dawn, Inc. and its executives Habib Rawjee, Mahmud Rawjee, and Adnan Rawjee (collectively, “American Dawn") to resolve False Claims Act allegations that American Dawn intentionally misclassified goods imported into the United States in order to pay lower tariff rates. American Dawn agreed to pay $2,338,879 to resolve these allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: A repeat offender who previously served ten years for plotting to use a pipe-bomb to blow up a motel, was convicted today of four federal felonies related to his ongoing illegal weapon possession, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. ROBERT A. STANARD, 41, of Arlington, Washington was convicted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - WILLIAM G. HORN, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to fifteen months in federal prison for making false statements on federal tax returns for The Tommie Harris Foundation, a non-profit corporation, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Sara Lee DeLaCruz, 34, of Wendell, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 12 months and one day in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Two men from Northwest Ohio were indicted on firearms charges, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after the Trump Administration and Scott Lloyd, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), blocked the fourth young immigrant woman from obtaining an abortion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Two Indianapolis men were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for conspiring to rob a Middletown pharmacy of morphine and oxycodone on April 29, 2017 for the purpose of selling the drugs on the street.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Melanie Williams-Bethea Engaged In Kickback Scheme With Students, Three Of Whom Are Also Charged.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- With water again filling the South Rim storage tanks, Grand Canyon National Park will ease restrictions on water use. Crews repaired one of the pumps at Indian Garden and park managers feel confident that enough water is in storage to scale back to Level 1 basic water conservation measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - WILLIAM G. HORN, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to fifteen months in federal prison for making false statements on federal tax returns for The Tommie Harris Foundation, a non-profit corporation, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Cleanup and improvement work will begin Friday, Jan. 19, at the Rice Canyon Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area east of Susanville, and the Bureau of Land Management is asking visitors to be careful around work areas. Installations will include constructing a kids OHV track, site preparations for a vault toilet, developing a new gravel pit, constructing jump areas and trail maintenance. BLM crews will be working on weekends through the early summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Brandon Jackson, age 32, of Proctor, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to 480 months in federal prison followed by twenty years of supervised release on one count of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
