News from May 2018
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2018
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on May 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | May 7, 2018
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on May 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) issued the following statement praising President Trump for signing HR. 4300, the Admiral Lloyd R. ‘Joe’ Vasey Pacific War Commemorative Display Establishment Act, into law. Introduced by Chairman Bishop and Subcommittee...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Road construction has begun on East River Road in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Construction will proceed throughout the summer on the 3.5 mile stretch of road from the park entrance at Pacific Avenue in Medora to the prairie dog town on Johnson Plateau.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in (SAC) Jon Wilson of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today that 42,676 pounds of prescription drugs were collected across Pennsylvania and Delaware by the DEA and its partners during the Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event on Saturday, April 28, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that Acadia National Park’s 3.5 million visits in 2017 resulted in $284 million spent in total visitor spending in the local region. That spending supported about 4,163 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $338 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that a federal grand jury sitting returned an indictment charging BRANDON SCOTT HAWKS, 33, of Eure, NC with two-counts of possession of a stolen firearm, and one-count of possession with the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A now-defunct debt collection company that was based in Culver City was sentenced today for its role in a scheme that paid bribes to a public official in Arizona in exchange for confidential information that helped the company collect nearly $1 million in outstanding debts.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) - Spring has sprung --and whether you are after a trophy gobbler, hiking, biking or just enjoying a snow-free getaway, your Public Lands await your arrival.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jesus Patino-Lopez, age 31, of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Illegal Re-Entry into the United States. United States District Judge Donald C. Coggins, Jr. of Spartanburg sentenced Patino-Lopez to 10 months in federal prison with 1 year of supervised release to follow.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - US Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9) leads a list of dignitaries scheduled to celebrate the reopening of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, May 19, at 10 am. The memorial was closed in 2017 for $2.4 million in deferred maintenance (DM) work that included repointing the exterior masonry, removing efflorescence, replacing broken interior wall tile, and rehabilitating five exterior bronze doors.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2018
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a North Carolina man from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that a federal grand jury sitting returned an indictment charging BRANDON SCOTT HAWKS, 33, of Eure, NC with two-counts of possession of a stolen firearm, and one-count of possession with the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that William Coleman, a 31 year old, resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to 164 months of incarceration and ordered to pay $582.00 in restitution followed by five years of supervised release for the armed robbery of a local retail business.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - From Waco to Houston to Laredo, Texas, Texan’s showed their support for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day program by dropping off their unused, unwanted and expired prescription pills on April 28 at collection sites across Texas. The Houston Division collected over 44,262 pounds of prescription drugs during the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on May 3, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Tourism to Pipestone National Monument creates $5.7 million in economic output.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal inmate already serving a lengthy sentence for a child pornography conviction was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for possessing images of child pornography while incarcerated, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Connie Margaret Metzger, a resident of Wilson, Michigan, has been indicted by a grand jury and charged with two counts of assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry, age 71, of Columbia, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to failure to file a foreign agent registration statement.
