News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Attorney for the United States, acting under authority conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrests of ANILESH AHUJA, a/k/a “Neil,"...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) is planning to conduct a number of prescribed fire burns in Acadia National Park through June 1 and again from September 1 to Nov. 30, 2017, provided weather and fuel conditions meet the conditions established in the park’s prescribed fire plan.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office is advising the public against boating along a portion of the San Miguel River, one-half mile upstream of the Caddis Flats recreation site.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: MAY 9, 2018 - Today, about 1,000 local census takers will begin going door-to-door to collect information from households that did not respond to the 2018 Census Test taking place in Providence County, R.I. This phase, called Nonresponse Followup, is the next major operation of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2018 Census Test.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Due to last winter’s weather patterns Seal Cove Road, Western Mountain Road, and Lurvey Spring Road in Acadia National Park will have delayed openings to motor vehicles. These unpaved roads have deep ruts, exposed culverts, and downed wood creating unsafe conditions. Unpaved roads generally have their gates closed around November 15 and are reopened by May 15, weather and conditions permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A man who allegedly stole a car in New Bedford, Mass., and used it a couple of hours later as a getaway vehicle after allegedly robbing a bank in Tiverton, R.I., was ordered detained in federal custody on Tuesday following his initial appearance in U.S. District Court on a federal criminal complaint charging him with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former managing clerk for an international law firm was resentenced today to 37 months in prison for stealing sensitive, confidential information from the law firm for use in a five-year insider trader scheme that yielded net profits of more than $2 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Megan Renee Bohrer, of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, has admitted to a stolen firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on North Korea’s release of three American hostages...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - After a ten-day trial and 62 witnesses, a federal jury returned three guilty verdicts - conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and two counts of possession of a firearm (with death resulting) in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Aaron Pelchat, 36, of Manchester, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to serve 24 months in prison for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday chaired an oversight hearing to examine the status of electricity restoration for the people of Puerto Rico, the work that remains to be completed, and the future of the island’s grid. The committee also heard from leaders on the ground about proposals to ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Four Port Arthur, Texas men have been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with federal violations related to a crime spree in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Charles Dwight Stout, III, 20, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to damage religious property and to causing damage to religious property because of its religious character, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during the Committee markup of H.R. 5698, the “Protect and Serve Act."
By State Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a full committee markup of four measures...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Isaiah Galloway, 40, of Moss Point, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 121 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing methamphetamine in Moss Point, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is engaging communities across Alaska in person to gather relevant comments, concerns and/or issues pertaining to the development of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The BLM will host meetings in communities in and near...
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Culberson. I want to thank you for your work in putting this bill together, and for listening to the priorities and concerns on this side of the aisle. Although we do not agree on everything in this bill, you have always tried to be fair to me and to our side of the aisle, and I appreciate how we have been able to work together.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Media Advisory May 9, 2018. Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will close Friday due to the possibility of an explosive steam event and ash fall at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano. Who: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. What: Closure of most of the park. Only the Kahuku Unit...
