News from May 2018
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - Approximately 400 people attended the scoping meetings about the American Prairie Reserve’s grazing permit change proposal. The four meetings were held by the Bureau of Land Management.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of bank robbery and attempted bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Troy Anthony Lewis, age 47, of Warner Robins, Georgia, plead guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender on May 1, 2018 before the U.S. District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - On April 16, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted eight individuals for federal firearms violations. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today. As charged in the indictments, eight of the defendants are prohibited by federal firearms laws from possessing firearms. In two of the cases, the grand jury charged the defendants as aliens illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Vietnamese national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in an international scheme to use stolen payment card data and personally identifiable information to purchase and re-sell hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of consumer goods.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: WILDWOOD, N.J. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) in New Jersey hosted its first South Jersey Youth and Family Drug Awareness Summit at the Wildwoods Convention Center on Saturday, April 28. The summit was part of the DEA’s 360 Strategy to combat opioid abuse. The summit was attended by 200 elementary and middle school students, and their parents from across the region.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Due to the possibility of a new eruption and unstable geologic activity, park management closed 15,688 acres near Kīlauea Volcano’s Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō vent to the ocean today, including the gravel emergency access road from the eastern gate near Kalapana, to the western gate at the end of Chain of Craters Road, and all land on the makai (ocean) side of the emergency road.
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, at a roundtable discussion with aging and disability advocates in New Jersey, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a proposal to create a new Medicare long-term care benefit. The comprehensive discussion draft, The Medicare Long-Term Care Services...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - Jorge Eliecer Cifuentes-Cuero (54, Colombia, South America) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while aboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, in violation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Henderson man who wore a “Jason"-style hockey mask during the robbery of a Las Vegas pawn shop and stole nearly $125,000 worth of jewelry was sentenced today to 78 months in prison and three years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson.
By Homeland Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned 3,800 ancient artifacts, including cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, and clay bullae, to the Republic of Iraq. The artifacts were smuggled into the United States in violation of federal law and shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc, a nationwide arts-and-crafts retailer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, cargo pilot who travels abroad frequently has been arrested for allegedly coercing a minor to participate in acts of child sexual abuse, which he recorded on camera and imported to the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HECTOR RIVERA was sentenced today to life in prison plus 25 years for murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire conspiracy, and use of a firearm resulting in death, in connection with his role in ordering the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: President of North Carolina Mental Health Service Provider Indicted For Not Paying Employment Taxes To IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that two Watertown men and a Reeseville man were indicted today for a home invasion armed robbery on S. 15th Place in Milwaukee, on Feb. 27, 2018. Justin M. Gillis, age 30, Amedee Mathew O’Gorman, age 28, and Andrew S. Pein, age 31, each have...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Grants, NM: Due to prolonged hot, dry weather and to reduce the risk of human caused fires at El Malpais and El Morro National Monuments, park officials will be implementing Stage II fire restrictions beginning Friday, May 4, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that more than 1.4 million recreation visitors to Mount Rainier National Park during 2017 spent $50.6M in communities surrounding the park resulting in a net impact to the economy of approximately $63.5M. This spending supported approximately 621 jobs in...
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, at a roundtable discussion with aging and disability advocates in New Jersey, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a proposal to create a new Medicare long-term care benefit. The comprehensive discussion draft, The Medicare Long-Term Care Services...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Fifty-seven individuals, who are connected to various white supremacist gangs have been charged in a case led by the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division and coordinated by the Texas Anti-Gang Center with participating partners such as the Dallas Police Department ...
