News from July 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: The complete fire ban that was put in place in Rocky Mountain National Park on July 6, 2018, has been lifted due to current conditions. Rocky Mountain National Park always has Stage 1 fire restrictions in place, where campfires are prohibited in the park, except within designated campfire rings in picnic areas and front-country campgrounds. The last time a total fire ban (Stage 2 fire restrictions) was in place in the park was in June of 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: SIOUX CITY, IA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District if Iowa and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division hosted a roundtable today for community organizations to discuss the problem of sexual harassment in housing, United States Attorney Pete Deegan announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Michael Gene Rushing, 58, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee to 210 months to serve, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing child pornography and possession of child pornography, announced U. S. Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Great Basin National Park was featured in a travel article in the New York Times. The article was penned by Rachel Levin.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote an op-ed piece for USA Today, shining a light on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's concerning anti-environment record and highlighting the striking similarities between his reckless agenda ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Defendant Shot by Store Clerk During Armed Robbery Attempt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Today, in the wake of President Donald Trump’s comments in Helsinki, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN), sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) demanding a special committee meeting to consider their bipartisan legislation to limit President Trump's ability to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Birmingham man to 50 years in prison for sexually exploiting a five-year-old boy by forcing the child to perform sexual acts and videotaping the conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert Gibeault, Jr., age 49, of Gansevoort, New York, was indicted yesterday for distributing child pornography over the internet and possessing child pornography on a laptop computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal judge has found Neil Andre Butler (46, Jacksonville) guilty of four counts of possessing and passing fraudulent U.S. Treasury checks. Butler faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 23, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office is seeking public comment on a proposal to lease approximately 10 acres of public land to the City of Las Vegas for a public park and related facilities. The park is proposed near the intersection of Iron Mountain Road and Alpine Ridge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Lisa McLaren Janick (47, Port Charlotte) today pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud. McLaren Janick faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for threatening to murder African-Americans at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Farmington, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Farmington District Office will rescind current fire restrictions effective July 23, 2018, at 12:01 a.m. The fire restrictions will no longer be in effect on BLM-managed lands within the following counties: San Juan, Rio Arriba, Taos, Santa Fe, McKinley, Sandoval, Colfax, Union, Mora, Harding, Quay, and San Miguel within the Farmington District. These fire restrictions have been in effect since June 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the conviction of ERIC JAMES REINBOLD, 41, for illegally possessing unregistered pipe bombs. Following a three-day trial before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the jury found REINBOLD guilty of one count of possession of unregistered destructive devices. REINBOLD’S sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Gabriel Gonzales, 18, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was charged yesterday in a criminal complaint with Hobbs Act robbery and brandishing and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal charges against Keith Sidwell in the April 10, 2018 fatal shooting of Hector Escoto-Munguia on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Ricardo Silva, a current inmate at Smith State Prison and a high-ranking member of the Sureños prison gang, has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine. He is currently serving a sentence with the state of Georgia for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the conviction of ERIC JAMES REINBOLD, 41, for illegally possessing unregistered pipe bombs. Following a three-day trial before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the jury found REINBOLD guilty of one count of possession of unregistered destructive devices. REINBOLD’S sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found JAMES ERIK GODIKSEN, 56, of Clinton, guilty of murder for hire. The trial before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant began on July 10, and the jury returned its verdict today.
