News from January 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: On Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, Haleakalā National Park will waive entrance fees for all park visitors, as part of a national celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Although entrance fees will be waived, visitors wishing to viewing sunrise between 3am and 7am must still make an online sunrise reservation and pay the $1.50 per car reservation fee at recreation.gov. Online sunrise reservations are available until 4pm the day before a planned sunrise visit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Maryland Men Convicted of Sex Trafficking Three Minor Victims Throughout the East Coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced today the appointment of Ryan M. Roberts and Christopher J. Nassar as Assistant United States Attorneys in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma. As Criminal Division AUSAs, Messrs. Roberts and Nassar will represent the United States of America in the prosecution of criminal cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that William Westley Dill, age 25, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) welcomed Congresswoman Val Demings (FL-10) to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and announced the new subcommittee structure for the second session of the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: James Waller Jr. Obtained Identities, Applied for Student Loans without Authorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Saugus man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a heroin trafficking scheme operating in and around Lawrence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Interior Department Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall today requesting an investigation of the Trump administration’s halting of two major studies at the National Academies of Sciences (NAS). The public rationales for the stop-work orders do not stand up to scrutiny and suggest political motives, Grijalva writes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of two Cambridge-based investment advisory firms pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud hedge fund investors.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has finalized the documents that evaluate the installation of infrastructure that would make permanent recreational development possible at five sites around Lake Berryessa, Napa County.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: ROSWELL, N.M. - Beginning in late January, and continuing through March 2018, the Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burn operations within the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area. There are five prescribed fire units within the NCA located about 10 miles northeast of Ruidoso and five miles southeast of Capitan in Lincoln County. The units are:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald A. Parsons, Jr. announced that a Soldier Creek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nana Dwomah Yeboah, 34, a citizen of the Republic of Ghana, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with assaulting and resisting federal law enforcement officers and possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute. The charges carry a maximum penalty of eight years in prison and a fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Judge Malachy Mannion sentenced James Woodring, age 51, Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, to 33 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, for manufacturing explosives and for being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald A. Parsons, Jr. announced that Jesse J. Waln, age 32, of Mission, South Dakota, was found guilty of two counts of Possession of Stolen Firearms as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Alessandra P. Serano (202) 252-5843 or Joseph Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that additional charges were filed today against a Kansas City, Mo., man for stalking and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges related to the armed robberies of eight metropolitan area businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - The United States Attorney Offices in the Northern District and Southern District of West Virginia are teaming up with law enforcement, service providers, and non-profit organizations to shed light on human trafficking in West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Ida Mae Sam, 56, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III, to serve 68 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for assaulting another Choctaw Indian with a dangerous weapon and causing serious bodily injury, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze. Sam was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
