News from November 2018
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Yosemite National Park announces the release of the Wawona Wastewater Treatment System Rehabilitation Project Environmental Assessment (EA). The public comment period for the EA is open until December 9, 2018. This EA describes and analyzes two action alternatives to address deferred maintenance, improve visitor experience, and improve the operational efficiency of the Wawona Wastewater Treatment System. The preferred alternative (Alternative 2) would.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Gloria Wiley (72, Dansville, KY) has pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to refund federally insured student aid funds, commonly referred to as Stafford Loans and Pell Grants. Wiley faces a maximum penalty of five years...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL WILLIAM MUZYKA, 49, of North Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 54 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for his role in a large-scale fencing operation.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Angelina Keenan, 24, formerly of Salem, New Hampshire, was sentenced to five months in federal prison for illegally purchasing firearms for a Massachusetts resident, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - David Lee Davis, 47 of Williamsburg, Ky., was sentenced this week, to 210 months in federal prison, by United States District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man twice convicted of domestic violence was indicted for having a gun.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that nine illegal aliens pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison for re-entering the United States after being previously removed.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Gregory A. Bush, 51, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on hate crime and firearm charges arising out of the racially motivated murder of two African-American patrons at a Kroger grocery store, and the attempted murder of a third, on Oct. 24 in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former officer with the N.J. Department of Corrections was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for receiving images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Timothy Caleb Martinez, 28, of Artesia, N.M., was sentenced today in Las Cruces, N.M., to 75 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges. Martinez will be on supervised release for five year after completing his prison sentence.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two East Texas men have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Woodbridge man today for his role in a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Defendant allegedly tied to the seizure of 15 kilos of fentanyl thrown on side of the road.

By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement about the Treasury Department’s announcement of new sanctions against 17 individuals for their roles in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi...

By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: MOAB, UT- Arches and Canyonlands national parks are open all year, but the parks’ visitor center operations change with the arrival of winter.

By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act against Saudi Arabian officials who were responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management is announcing that the El Malpais Ranger Station will be closed on Thursday, November 22 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The Ranger Station will reopen on Friday, November 23 at 8:30 a.m.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Kemmerer, WY- The Fossil Butte National Monument visitor center will be closed for Federal holidays over the 2018/2019 winter. This includes Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, and President’s Day. Starting in December, the visitor center will also be closed on Sundays. With these exceptions, the visitor center’s normal winter hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Medford, Oregon - The Medford District, Bureau of Land Management, will close the Bear Camp/Galice Access Road (Route 34-8-36) four miles after the turnoff from the Merlin-Galice Road (at the community of Galice) to the nine mile marker. Beginning November 16th the road will be closed for due to the...