News from May 2018

By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 42-year-old Houston man has admitted to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering to steal millions from Dallas company The Beck Group, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.

By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jarius Jovanghn Styles, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office is implementing Stage 1 fire restrictions on BLM-managed public lands in Fresno, Monterey and San Benito counties. Target shooting will also be temporarily limited to 30 minutes before sunrise until noon only starting May 25, due to potential fire danger.

By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today asking him to clarify the process by which the Department of the Interior (DOI) determined uranium to be a “critical mineral" pursuant to Executive Order 13817, which directs DOI to assess which “non-fuel minerals" are essential to economic and national security and will therefore be eligible for looser permitting standards, among other benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former investment adviser in Chesapeake was sentenced today to 12 1/2 years in prison for orchestrating an investment scheme that caused his clients to lose over $6 million.

By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dorian Devon Banks, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration for cocaine distribution and illegal firearms possession, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: * Wildland fire staff will burn piles of woody debris at the Northeast Entrance Monday, May 21.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: A Longview, Washington woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to one year in prison and three years of supervised release for abetting a felon in possession of a firearm and making a false statement during the purchase of firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. ANDREA SIBLEY...

By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - After deliberating less than one-half hour, a federal jury found Kahlil Shelton guilty of five counts of violating federal narcotics, robbery, and firearm laws and Deron Howell guilty of eight counts of violating federal narcotics, robbery, and firearm laws.

By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation increased flows from Lucky Peak Dam by 500 cubic feet per second (cfs) on Monday, May 21, at 11 am. An additional increase of 500 cfs will occur on Tuesday, May 22, at 11 am. Flows through the city of Boise, as measured at...

By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2018
Release: DULLES, Va. - A Loudoun County, Virginia, man was cited by airport police at Washington Dulles International Airport after a Transportation Security Administration officer spotted a loaded gun in the man’s carry-on bag at one of the airport checkpoints yesterday, May 20.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: On Thursday, May 17, 2018, following a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, a federal jury convicted Savannah residents Joshua Scott, 22, and Victor Natson, 27, of conspiring to interfere with interstate commerce by robbing armored trucks. Natson was also convicted...
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is advising the public that road construction, including closures, on Chickamauga Battlefield’s Reeds Bridge Road, will begin Monday, June 4, 2018, and will continue through September 2018. Once complete, construction on McFarland Gap Road will begin.

By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Southeast Texas man was convicted Monday of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Proposed rule will establish consistency with State of Alaska regulations.

By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRYAN KELLY, 46, of East Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.

By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Janet Cabral (619) 546-8715 or Amanda Griffith (619)546-8970.

By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Three people have been indicted on charges related to Alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone (Alpha-PVP), also known as "bath salts," Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 42-year-old Houston man has admitted to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering to steal millions from Dallas company The Beck Group, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Arlene Hart was sentenced on by Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona for two counts of Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341. The convictions were...