News from May 2018
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: BOZEMAN - As part of ongoing efforts to monitor the population of grizzly bears and black bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park and the USGS would like to inform the public that biologists with the National Park Service and Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) will be conducting scientific grizzly bear and black bear research operations in Yellowstone National Park from May 21 through July 30.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Salem, Ore. - Work for an aquatic restoration project will result in a two-week temporary road closure of Goodpasture Road near milepost 3, and BLM Roads 17-3E-9 between June 18 through 21st and June 25 through 28th. The project is on Deer Creek, a tributary of the McKenzie River. A number of large trees...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Sessions, Other Justice Department Officials Pay Tribute to Police Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Defendant, whose true identity remains unknown, lived under a stolen identity for twenty years, using it to obtain a passport, Social Security card, and to vote in the 2016 Presidential Election.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former fire inspector for Middlesex Borough and other New Jersey municipalities today admitted conspiring with another person to commit a strongarm extortion, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: A former City of Detroit employee, Masharn Franklin, 53, of Detroit, pleaded guilty today to embezzling $265,000 from the city, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of increasing public access for hunting, fishing and other recreation, the Bureau of Land Management is considering the Blue Valley Land Exchange in Grand and Summit counties. Today, the BLM released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for this proposal, which initiates a 45-day public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 24 months of incarceration followed by three years of federal supervision by the United States Probation Office on his conviction for escaping from a halfway house, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases 2017 Statistics on of Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Honduran national and repeated illegal re-entrant was sentenced on May 3 to 12 months and one day after pleading guilty to one count of illegal re-entry and one count of assault on a law enforcement officer in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. A judge immediately sentenced Reyes-Martinez, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that DARIN WEBB was arrested this morning on wire fraud charges stemming...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Defendant Oscar Rodríguez-Torres pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Camille Vélez-Rivé to six counts including conspiracy, theft of government property, mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to launder money, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: FBI Director Christopher A. Wray Recognizes National Police Week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Missouri woman to more than 19 years in prison for conspiracy and armed carjackings connected to a four-state crime spree in 2016 that ended with her partner’s death in a shoot-out with police in Florida, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Gordon Owen Miller, 60, of Clayton, to 20 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to consider the nomination of Aimee Jorjani to be the chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (Council). If confirmed, she will complete the remainder of a four-year term expiring on June 10, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeremiah R. Dodrill, of Spelter, West Virginia, and Jacob Renard White, of Clarksburg, West Virginia appeared today before a federal magistrate judge to face charges involving methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: Men and women in uniform put their lives at risk every day. This week, National Police Week, we thank them for their service and recognize the sacrifice of fallen officers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Three men have been charged with federal firearms violations for scheming to purchase dozens of guns in Kentucky and illegally re-sell them in the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
