News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former postal employee pleaded guilty today to embezzling over $22,000 from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC), along with the Stewards Individual Placement Program, are seeking individuals to participate in the new Veteran Trades Apprenticeship Program. This program provides post-9/11 military...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service owns and administers a small percentage of the approximately 2,600 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs). Although most of the properties located in national park units are owned by the National Park Service, not all are. Two of these NHLs are marking their one-year anniversary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Announces Successful Human Trafficking Prosecutions in the Middle District of Florida.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Maris Inc. Awarded `Ohe`o Gulch Scaling Contract.
By State Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Plum Island was the site of a successful National Audubon Christmas Bird Count this season on the heels of an agreement between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and Audubon New York (ANY). The federal agency signed a formal Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) allowing the avian conservation organization access to take monthly counts of birds that utilize the 840 acres of Plum Island.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Special Sunday ranger-led snowshoe hikes are being added to the program calendar at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) this winter! In addition to our regularly scheduled Saturday hikes, snowshoe hikes will be offered on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. in January starting on the 14th. Meet at the National Lakeshore’s Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire. Reservations are required. Please call 231-326-4700, extension 5010, for details and to make reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced today that on January 8, 2018, Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Keith McCormick, age 60, of Omaha, Nebraska for his conviction for misapplication of bank funds. McCormick was sentenced to a term of supervised release of three years and was ordered to pay restitution of $122,000 to Security National Bank.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Superintendent Judy Forte is pleased to announce a special program that will take place at the Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS to celebrate and commemorate the 89th Birthday of Dr. King.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael McEarchern has been arraigned on federal charges for attempting to use the U.S. mail and telephone communications to hire someone to kill his ex-wife. McEarchern was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 3, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing a TD bank in Newark in May 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Ronald A. Parsons, Jr. has been sworn in as the 42nd United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota. He was sworn in by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier at a brief ceremony in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on January 5, 2018. He began his duties immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Freeport, Texas, man was sentenced last week to 88 months in prison for transporting a minor to Shreveport to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport man who was previously convicted last week of a felony pleaded guilty to possessing three handguns he tried to hide near the U.S. court house.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Commissioner Brenda Burman announced the appointment of Michael J. Ryan as Senior Advisor to the Commissioner. Ryan joined Reclamation in 1982 and has served as the Great Plains Regional Director for the last 12 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Leslie Michelle Hays, 49, of Fresno pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud for embezzling funds from her employer, Borges USA, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Conspirators laundered over $6 million in drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: John Lapis Maintained a Drug House that was the Site of at Least Two Shootings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: Defendant Worked at Public Charter School in Northwest Washington.
