News from May 2018

By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Reclamation's Rapid City Office, in cooperation with the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks is beginning the development of a new Resource Management Plan (RMP) for Belle Fourche Reservoir. The RMP will be the blueprint for future management and development at Belle Fourche Reservoir. The first step in the RMP will be gathering public input thru a user survey, scheduled to begin in May, 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LACY DOYLE pled guilty today in connection with her maintenance of a secret, undeclared bank account in Switzerland. DOYLE pled guilty before United States District Judge Andrew L. Carter to subscribing to a false tax return.

By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will conduct a FREE, 2.5 hour, family friendly canoe tour with a ranger on Friday, May 25, at 9 am. The Friends of Moccasin Bend and the Friends of Outdoor Chattanooga will sponsor an event where visitors will paddle the quiet waters...

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL COLLIER, age 56, of New Orleans, was indicted today by a federal grand jury for attempted bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier sentenced a Wagner, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor, on May 9, 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases 2017 Statistics on of Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney R. Trent Shores announced today the results of the May 2018 Federal Grand Jury.

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christian Roman, age 24, of Schenectady, New York, was indicted today on charges that he stole an array of firearms from a licensed firearms dealer.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,319,420 visitors to New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area spent $56,289,700 in communities near the three parks in 2017. That spending supported 823 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economies of $64,220,300. The parks span four counties in southern West Virginia: Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh, and Summers.

By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, all of the Democratic Members of the Subcommittee on National Security within the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter urging Defense Secretary James Mattis to immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s recent decision to redact key data on U.S. personnel strength from the Defense Department’s quarterly public reports.

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Third Colombian National Extradited to the United States to Face Charges for Encouraging and Inducing Aliens to Come to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: For Firearms Violations. SOUTH BEND -Michael S. Barber, age 22, of Middlebury, Indiana was convicted, on all counts, after a 3-day jury trial before District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. The jury convicted Barber on one count of unlawfully taking one or more firearms...

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: VALDOSTA: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on May 9, 2018, Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson revoked the Supervised Release for Ferrell Walker, age 50, of Quitman, Georgia and ordered him to serve sixty (60) months in the Bureau of Prisons following a two-day hearing.

By USDA Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: May 10, 2018 - USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is reminding producers of the May 31 deadline for the Cotton Ginning Cost Share (CGCS) program. Through the program, cotton producers may receive a cost share payment, which is based on a producer’s 2016 cotton acres reported to FSA multiplied by 20 percent of the average ginning cost for each production region.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man from Texas was charged in federal court here today with taking a Hutchinson, Kan., girl across state lines for sex, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric Taylor, 35, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiring to retaliate against a witness, and retaliating against a witness before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County doctor with practices in Colts Neck, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A southeast Texas man, who is a previously convicted sex offender, was charged Thursday with possessing child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Tyrell Belgarde, a 28-year-old former resident of Babb, was sentenced to 27 months in prison follow by two years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the hearing. Belgarde previously entered a guilty plea to strangulation in February of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL COLLIER, age 56, of New Orleans, was indicted today by a federal grand jury for attempted bank robbery.