News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway), through the Youth Partnership Program, collaborated with the University of North Alabama (UNA) to create six internship opportunities. Students, under the guidance of Assistant Professor of Elementary Education Dr. Lorie Johnson, are working with the Parkway on digital media products that will highlight the rich natural and cultural history along the Alabama section of the Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that Sarah E. Batenhorst, 42, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 10 months in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for wire fraud. Batenhorst was also ordered to serve a period of 3 years on supervised release and pay restitution in the amount of $343,773.55.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was sentenced in federal court in Boston yesterday for his role in a trans-national marijuana scheme that distributed thousands of pounds of marijuana and laundered millions of dollars in proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced the owner of a Decatur compounding pharmacy to five years in prison for conspiring to defraud a federal health insurance program out of more than $10 million. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigation, Miami Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Justin D. Green and Defense Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin announced the sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - This year, Goldstrike Canyon Trail will close April 15 through Sept. 30, and Arizona Hot Spring Trail will close May 15 through Sept. 30.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Van Buren, MO - Akers Ferry, located at Akers on the upper Current River, is expected to be closed until mid-June. Akers Ferry provides a Current River crossing on State Route K in northern Shannon County. Recent flooding in the area resulted in a substantial deposit of gravel in the river channel, preventing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kenneth Sharif Johnson, age 27, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was indicted on March 22, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: JACKSON, MS-The FBI Safe Streets Task Force arrested 37-year-old Edward Corneilus Bridges, aka “Pooh," of Moss Point, Mississippi on charges of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance-methamphetamine on March 22, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jeremy Duguay, 34, of Bangor, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Rhode Island Man Charged in Tax Scheme for Allegedly Thwarting IRS Efforts to Collect Taxes on Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Donald Edward Smith (65, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to executing a false income tax return. He faces a maximum penalty of eight years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - The manager of an opioid addiction treatment practice has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady of the Western District...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Donald Edward Smith (65, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to executing a false income tax return. He faces a maximum penalty of eight years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Besnik Llakatura was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano to 171 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a term of five years’ supervised release, for his convictions on two counts of Hobbs Act extortion conspiracy and one count of brandishing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: A Mexican man who illegally returned to the United States after two prior deportations was sentenced today to more than three months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: EPHRATA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation will reopen Scooteney Reservoir campground, located 36 miles south of Moses Lake on Highway 17, for the 2018 camping season on April 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - DEA and their law enforcement partners arrested 10 defendants who, along with two other defendants, were charged in a 26-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on March 6, 2018, and unsealed today, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Justin C. King and Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: NPS Winter Storm Damage Assessment and Recovery Update.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - The manager of an opioid addiction treatment practice has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady of the Western District...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is pleased to announce it has recently been awarded a grant by Eastern National for the "GO BIG" 2018 Challenge.
