News from May 2018
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev.-The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, has approved the Isabella Pearl Project located approximately six miles north of Luning, NV, in Mineral County.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM: - Step back in time with Ron Fields on May 26th and 27th. Ron, who is the park archaeologist at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, will demonstrate the techniques involved in manufacturing stone tools and the use of these tools in manufacturing Phragmites compound arrows that would...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases 2017 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: JACKSON, MS-The FBI in New Orleans and Jackson are assisting local and state law enforcement in three armed robberies in Louisiana and Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: As part of national Public Service Recognition Week, the Louisiana House of Representatives honored U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thursday with a House Resolution commending an ICE Homeland Security Investigations task force in Louisiana for its efforts fighting human trafficking and other cross border criminal activity throughout the state.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Keystone, South Dakota - In celebration of National Travel and Tourism Week Mount Rushmore National Memorial reveals data from a new National Park Service report which shows that over 2.4 million visitors to Mount Rushmore in 2017 spent an estimated $139 million in local communities. Spending that supported 2,140 jobs in the area and had a cumulative benefit of $177 million to the local economy.
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) in Grand Junction, Colorado, acquired an 18,900-square-foot building on April 11, 2018, through a no-cost federal-to-federal transfer that maximized resources to meet LM’s increasing workload.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Rico Reid, a/k/a “Deuce", age 41, of Berkeley County, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court yesterday in Charleston, South Carolina, for (1) Using and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Drug Trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking organization that operated in Taunton and Boston.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Buffalo National River, Harrison, AR - Back by popular demand, the Harrison-based modern folk band National Park Radio will kick off the summer season at Buffalo National River with a free concert at 5:00 PM on Saturday, June 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Defendant possessed manual entitled “How to Practice Child Love," and videos of rapes of girls as young as five-years-old.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On May 10, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against four defendants charged with conspiracy to commit arson in furtherance of wire fraud, wire fraud, and other arson related charges, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A former high-ranking commander in the Mexican Federal Police entered a no contest plea in U.S. District Court today to the charges of obstruction of justice and conspiring with others to corruptly impede a U.S.-based narcotics trafficking investigation. A no contest plea is one in which a defendant acknowledges that the facts of the case would result in a verdict of guilt, although the defendant is not admitting to those facts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jaime Santiesteban, 37, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws by being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Santiesteban’s plea agreement recommends a prison sentence within the range of 63 to 92 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: MIDLAND, Texas United States District Judge David Counts sentenced 27-year-old Kenneth James Barfield yesterday to 30 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Kyle Williamson; and Midland Interim Police Chief Seth Herman.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Rocky Hutson, age 59, of Grand Junction, Colorado, and a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen, was sentenced to serve 70 months (nearly 6 years) in federal prison for false claims, creating fictious financial instruments and bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Division Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: DALLAS -Bryan Anthony Adams, 29, of Euless, Texas, who pleaded guilty in September 2017 to one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to 108 months in federal prison. U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Peyton Erwin Eidson was sentenced this morning to 36 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to distribute marijuana, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Special Agent in Charge Matthew Perlman of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service...
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service announced today $2.6 million in maritime heritage grants to assist funding 34 preservation and education projects in 14 states and the Northern Mariana Islands. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), the National Park Service awarded grants for projects that teach about and preserve sites and objects related to our nation’s maritime history.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kenneth J. Monahan, age 43, of Menands, New York, made his appearance yesterday in federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Janelle M. Miller, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
