News from July 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: A new program at Acadia National Park is for people who love visiting the park with their dogs. The Bark Ranger Program encourages dogs and their people to complete at least one activity geared toward teaching and practicing the etiquette needed when dogs visit wild places like Acadia. After completing one or more activities, a free wallet-sized certificate will be signed by a park ranger, to honor the commitments between people, their dogs, and Acadia National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Verona man today admitted possessing three guns as a previously convicted felon, including a replica Thompson submachine gun that he modified into a working automatic firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Ever Anibal Silva-Escobar, a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, to 27 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., for conspiracy to transport illegal aliens within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Steven M. Lukach, Jr., age 68, of Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on twenty counts of mail and wire fraud and manufacturing records to obstruct an investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Saul Aguilar -Andres, 20, has been sentenced to 50 years in federal prison, to be followed by a life term of supervised release, for using two minors to produce sexually explicit images and transporting those images, by posting them on Drop Box.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Virginia man was sentenced today to 276 months in prison, to be followed by a life term of supervised release, for traveling from the United States to Haiti and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a three-day jury trial in federal court, Antonio Hawkins, 41, was convicted of multiple counts of sex trafficking. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: DENVER - A specialized fire investigation team from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) arrived in Westminster, Colorado, today, to assist with the investigation into the Westbury Apartment Complex fire that occurred around 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that ordinary blue light can be used to significantly improve the ability to see objects engulfed by large, non-smoky natural gas fires-like those used in laboratory fire studies and fire-resistance standards testing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Bloods gang member Billy McLen, also known as “Rizo," pleaded guilty to attempted murder in aid of racketeering and a weapons possession charge in connection with a shooting that occurred on Oct. 21, 2014 in Hempstead, New York. The proceeding took place before United States Magistrate Judge Arlene R. Lindsay.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Washington - Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $17.4 million in 41 projects (PDF, 154 KB) that will provide essential services for rural communities in 22 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Suffolk man today on charges of selling a firearm to a felon.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Washington -Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 12 members to serve on the Federal Grain Inspection Service’s (FGIS) Grain Inspection Advisory Committee beginning July 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A California man pleaded guilty today to unlawfully selling copyrighted aviation data updates, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -A former resident of Evans City, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: On Tuesday, July 24 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions will hold a hearing on H.R. 4219, "Workflex in the 21st Century Act." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arizona has posted a Notice of Sale for oil and gas lease sales of three parcels totaling 4,201.07 acres in northern Arizona. The online oil and gas lease sale will occur September 6 at www.Energynet.com, beginning at 8 a.m. Arizona Time (MST).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Child Abuse and Operating a Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol with a Minor Present in the Motor Vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and William V. Grady, Dutchess County District Attorney, announced today that DAVONTE HAMILTON...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nathan Little, 31, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Ruidoso, N.M., pled guilty on July 20, 2018, in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
