News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Tracy Bronson embezzled $573,159 from the Calhoun Conservation District between 2014 and 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jerry Lee Beohm, Jr., of Philippi, West Virginia, was sentenced to 64 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County - The National Park Service on August 6 will launch a $5 million restoration of the iconic, 148-year-old Point Reyes lighthouse. The thirty-five-foot-tall, sixteen-sided tower is home to the only brass clockwork mechanism and first-order Fresnel lens (with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Tracy Lynn Bronson, 57, of Marshall, Michigan, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for stealing from her former employer, the Calhoun Conservation District, a local special unit of government with a mission to maintain and improve land, water, and wildlife. Bronson also...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Conditions and closures to be assessed over the weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Cesar Navarro, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced today to 480 months incarceration for mailing methamphetamine through the U.S. mail, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Leavenworth, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for sexually abusing a 14-year-old victim and recording the abuse on his cell phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Lohri, of Williamstown, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, who is charged with the first-degree murder of U.nited S.tates Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, was extradited from Mexico to the United States today, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Southern District of California U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman for...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - Stage 1 fire restrictions will go into effect on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at 12:01 a.m. and last until further notice on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Winnemucca District and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s Santa Rosa Ranger District in Northern Nevada. Fire restrictions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Rondell Lakevis Waiters, age 35, of Columbia, plead guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). Chief United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa., - A former resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his convictions on federal robbery laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Researchers at DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Washington State University (WSU) are seeking insight into the long-term behavior of glassified nuclear waste to ensure its durability hundreds of years into the future.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - In response to the large turnout at the first public meeting in Sierra Vista, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has changed the locations for the Benson and second Sierra Vista meetings previously announced for the Draft San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area Resource Management Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: A North Ridgeville man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for downloading multiple videos of young children being raped and sexually assaulted.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Brian Perri’s body was recovered this morning by helicopter from Rocky Mountain National Park. His body was transferred to the Boulder County Coroner’s Office. Boulder County Coroner’s office will not release positive identification until completion of an autopsy. However, it is believed that the body is that of Brian Perri, 38, of Fort Collins, Colorado.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Sometimes, being out of touch with the rest of the world can be a relaxing change - like when you are on a much anticipated vacation. But for law enforcement officers coordinating and participating in a dangerous operations across air, land, and sea to stop drug trafficking, patchy cellphone services...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released final environmental documents analyzing the proposed issuance of a 25 year land use authorization to the city of Bakersfield for the construction and maintenance of a 6-mile long multi-use path along the Friant-Kern Canal, constructed over three phases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Dustin Ray Leonard, 28, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared yesterday in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr., and pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: The first round of mountain goat capture and translocation will occur over a two-week period in September. Additional capture and translocation periods will occur in summer 2019. The staging area for capture activities this year will be located at Hurricane Ridge on Hurricane Hill Road. The capture activities are scheduled to occur September 10-21 and trail closures will be in effect for visitor and employee safety.
