News from June 2018

By DOE Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released the fifth video from its “Personal Stories from the Opioid Crisis" video series.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Possessed Over 130 Grams of Ice and More Than $1,000 in Cash.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Due to extreme fire danger, Carlsbad Caverns National Park has implemented the following preventative measures.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: UPDATE JULY 4, 2018. Fire Restrictions Increased July 4. in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The following acts are prohibited on the area, roads, and trails described below until rescinded: * Setting, building, maintaining, attending, or using open fires of any kind in the park in general, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: ABILENE - Edalia Martinez Oliver, 44, of Woodson was sentenced Friday, May 25, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to serve a total of 12 months in federal prison, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $41,992.20, following her guilty plea in February 2018 to Bank Theft from the First State Bank Graham (Texas), in Woodson Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Van Buren, MO: Join us on Saturday, June 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., as we celebrate a part of our American Heritage through the exposition of classic automobiles. The first Classic Car and Music Festival will be held at Big Spring. Many of the vehicles that will be on display symbolize those that once traversed the rugged hills surrounding Ozark National Scenic Riverways when Big Spring State Park was a popular destination for auto tourism.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On May 31, 2018, Kenneth M. Smith, age 39, of Randallstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The CEO of Team Work Ready (TWR) has received a significant federal sentence for conspiracy, health care fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Christopher Cave of the U.S. Postal Service - Office of Inspector General...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two Memphis men have been sentenced to a total of 250 months in federal prison for committing an armed robbery affecting interstate commerce. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentences today.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation finalized an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a WaterSMART Small-Scale Water Efficiency Project grant for the city of Sanger in Fresno County.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Former Department of Planning and Natural Resources Officer Gerald Mercer, 43, was found guilty by a jury in federal court on Thursday, May 31, 2018, before District Judge Curtis Gomez of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute not less than 50 and not more than 150 kilograms of cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man charged with Simple Assault was sentenced on May 25, 2018, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Yesterday, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Congressman Richard Neal (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Honduran Man Who Planned to Detonate Explosive at Miami Mall Sentenced to 210 Months for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - An international organization has recognized the Bureau of Land Management, Mattole Restoration Council and the Mattole Salmon Group for their restoration achievements in the Mattole River estuary in southern Humboldt County.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced JAMES DANIEL MCKOY, 54 from Garland, North Carolina, to 210 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. JAMES MCKOY was part of a violent drug trafficking organization operating in Sampson County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two Memphis men have been sentenced to a total of 250 months in federal prison for committing an armed robbery affecting interstate commerce. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Asbury Park, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm while serving as the driver in a drive-by shooting in Asbury Park, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to four years of probation on her conviction of conspiring to commit health care fraud and conspiring to distribute oxymorphone, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Chelsea Leonowicz, 28, of Fort Collins, Colorado, was sentenced on today’s date to serve 100 months in federal prison following her Aug. 23, 2017 entry of a guilty plea to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl, a Schedule II Controlled Substance, the use of which resulted in death. The proceedings...