News from November 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
Release: DULLES, Va. - A Transportation Security Administration officer stopped a West Virginia man from bringing a loaded handgun onto an airplane at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) today, Friday, November 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two Maryland residents were sentenced to a combined 13 years in prison today for their respective roles in a firearms straw purchasing and trafficking scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Trisha Lynne Ibarra, 24, and Arlene Viridiana Moya, 23, both of Texas, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour for their roles in a methamphetamine and heroin conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - Annual winter closures to motorized and mechanized vehicles will go into effect Dec. 1 on select Bureau of Land Management lands in the Montrose area to reduce stress on wintering wildlife and prevent road damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Defendant Was on PCP at Time of Mid-Morning Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Casey Walker, 39, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 14 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release for distributing cocaine. Walker pleaded guilty to this charge on July 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Two Freight Forwarding Executives Plead Guilty To Fixing Prices.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that J Julius Hatten, Jr., 28, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
Release: USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is publishing a record of decision for the final environmental impact statement (EIS) on cattle fever tick fencing in South Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: FBI Recovered Multiple Assault Rifles During Its Investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Big Thicket National Preserve is proud to announce the installation of a new temporary art exhibit in the park’s visitor center. Entitled “At Home in the Big Thicket," this art installation was created in partnership with the International Fiber Collaborative, which worked with students from across the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE/LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that two illegal aliens were sentenced and one pleaded guilty after arrests that took place in Calcasieu and St. Mary parishes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Army Sergeant Maliek Kearney, age 37, of San Antonio, Texas, today to life in federal prison, without the possibility of parole, for traveling to Maryland from South Carolina to murder his wife as part of an elaborate plan that...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Michael Fanelli, 36, of Woodbury, NJ, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with one count of armed bank robbery.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Ross: The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is continuing to conduct oversight of the Administration’s trade policies. In recent months, I have heard concerns from American businesses about the length of the tariff exclusion process and the ability of domestic steel...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to nearly nine years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine and possessing, using, and carrying a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Photographs by Karst Hoogeboom, and art by Mark Adams and Rebecca Arnoldi will be featured at Cape Cod National Seashore’s Salt Pond Visitor Center in December. The exhibit is part of the seashore’s ongoing series, Perspectives: Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore Through Art.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Prineville, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District, is announcing the open period for new Special Recreation Permit (SRP) applications from individuals and companies interested in guiding activities that will require a watercraft on the Lower Deschutes River. The application period opens Dec. 3, 2018 and will close January 4, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: St. Louis - A team lead by the St. Louis Division of the DEA executed arrest warrants this morning in St. Louis and Los Angeles and took five individuals into custody for their involvement in two drug conspiracies which distributed large quantities of heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: MOAB, UT-The Southeast Utah Group of national parks (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees on five days in 2019 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in their national parks this year.
