News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that House Fitters, Inc.’s Vice President, ROBERT B. JERNIGAN, age 52, of Kinston, North Carolina, was sentenced today to a 12-month probationary sentence by United States District Judge James C. Dever III after a guilty plea to unlawfully employing an illegal alien. JERNIGAN was also ordered to forfeit $9,649.00 in connection with the criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: A North Canton woman was indicted for robbing four banks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: Park Rangers at Redwood National and State Parks are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying two suspected car burglars. In September a vehicle was broken into while parked on the Newton B. Drury Parkway in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Several items were taken from the vehicle. Not long afterwards, a credit card stolen during the burglary was used at both Walmart and Home Depot stores in Crescent City.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: “National Park areas often offer a wonderful opportunity to stargaze," said Superintendent Cassius Cash. “Parks across the country monitor and manage for natural night sky conditions in much the same way as we do to protect our air and water. Visitors are often amazed at the number of stars that can be seen simply by entering into the natural darkness of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeremiah D. Edwards, 33, Madison, Wisconsin, and Kanasha L. Woods, 24, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were charged in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Madison on Nov. 12, 2018 with the armed robbery of a business and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of that crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan, sentenced MICHAEL EUGENE BLAKENEY, 29 from Wilson, North Carolina, to 37 months in prison, followed by 6 years of supervised release. Additionally, as the defendant had his supervised release revoked he was sentenced to 30 months custody.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming is proposing to offer 144 oil and gas lease parcels totaling about 158,048 acres at its March 2019 quarterly lease sale. These parcels are located across the state, within every BLM Wyoming field office except the Cody Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Trista Schlaefli, 33, of Colorado Springs, Colo., pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to charges arising out of a Nov. 27, 2017 crime spree during which Schlaefli and her co-defendant allegedly fled from a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint, carjacked a vehicle at...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN PAGE, 44, of Guilford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of failure to surrender for service of his federal sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: A former labor union official from Portage County was indicted for embezzling nearly $200,000 from the union.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Lafayette, New Jersey, tax preparer today admitted he did not pay payroll taxes and failed to make a personal income tax return, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, will begin selling Christmas tree cutting permits on Friday, November 16. The permit allow cutting a pinyon pine or juniper tree on designated BLM lands primarily in the Pinenut Mountains between Carson City and Yerington, the Clan...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: International Falls, MN - Park staff would like to remind visitors that overnight tent camping reservations for the 2019 season will become available on Nov. 15, 2018 at 9 am CST.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Hunter Queen, of Nutter Fort, West Virginia, was sentenced to 21 months incarceration for his role in a heroin distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
Release: D.C., Nov. 13, 2018- As winter approaches, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is reminding the public not to move wood out of areas quarantined for the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB). It is important that people follow state and federal laws, which restrict the movement of woody material, to keep the tree-killing pest from spreading outside of quarantined areas in Massachusetts, Ohio, and New York.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: On Nov. 13, the United States House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass legislation creating the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CISA Act (H.R. 3359), which passed the Senate in October and now heads to the President’s ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: More than 27,000 Businesses and Residents to Get Improved e-Connectivity WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing in infrastructure projects in a dozen states to improve e-Connectivity in rural communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker released the following statement on the FBI’s announcement of the 2017 Hate Crimes Statistics: "This report is a call to action—and we will heed that call. The Department of Justice’s top priority is to reduce violent crime in America, and hate crimes are violent ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with six broadcast television companies — Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.; Raycom Media Inc.; Tribune Media Company; Meredith Corporation; Griffin Communications; and Dreamcatcher Broadcasting LLC — to resolve a Department lawsuit alleging that the companies engaged in unlawful agreements to share non-public competitively sensitive information with their broadcast television competitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: The former CEO of a charity headquartered in Springfield, Missouri has pleaded guilty to her role in a multi-million-dollar political corruption scheme that involved bribes and campaign contributions for elected public officials in Missouri and Arkansas, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison of the Western District of Missouri.
