News from November 2018
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Yosemite National Park Announces winter operations in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to begin on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYESHON KING, 31, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 19 indictments charging 21 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) continues to provide technical assistance and outreach in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Michael, and is returning to normal enforcement operations throughout most of Florida and Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join a ranger on Saturday, Nov. 24, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, in search of wild turkeys and other wildlife as you work off Thanksgiving dinner at the Calumet Dunes parking lot at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Hike along the ancient Calumet shoreline of Lake Michigan and through forested dunes and small blowouts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Program, in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Virgin Islands National Guard (VING) Counterdrug Unit sponsored a half-day of training today on prescription drug and Fentanyl abuse, announced U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: California Resident Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns Which Failed to Report Secret German and Israeli Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Eastside Loco Salvatrucha (ESLS) clique was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of North East, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 12 years in jail and 10 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: As the latest step in its transition to a more integrated and systematic approach to pilot certification, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is asking for public comments on new draft standards for obtaining an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate in the airplane category or for obtaining an airplane type rating.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Larry Willis, 33, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute, maintaining a drug involved premises, possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking activities, and being a felon-in-possession of firearms and explosives, was sentenced to serve 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Stuart Gregory Ravn, 30, of Anchorage, charging him with one count of sexual exploitation of a child - possession of child pornography. Ravn was arraigned this morning before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith, and was ordered detained pending trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) on Saturday, Nov. 17, when they detected a loaded handgun in the man’s carry-on bag.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman Monday selected Michael Ryan as acting director for the agency’s Mid-Pacific Region. Ryan currently serves as a senior advisor to the Commissioner and has previously served as Reclamation’s Great Plains regional director for 12 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles woman who called herself “The Most Hated Hoe in L.A." on social media pleaded guilty today to a federal sex trafficking offense and admitted she used the Internet to solicit minors to engage in commercial sex acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Took Part in Purchase of 31 Firearms for Illegal Resale in the District of Columbia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Central Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Prineville District Office plans to aerial spray the herbicide imazapic (brand names Plateau, Panoramic 2SL, Nufarm 2SL) to treat noxious weeds and invasive non-native weeds on BLM-administered lands affected by 2018 wildfires. All treatments are designed...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that MARIO ARGUETA-CHUN, age 40, a native of Guatemala, was charged Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 in a one-count bill of information with unlawfully transferring a false identification document, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Stuart Gregory Ravn, 30, of Anchorage, charging him with one count of sexual exploitation of a child - possession of child pornography. Ravn was arraigned this morning before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith, and was ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIGUEL ANGEL ARCOS-VASQUEZ, also known as “Dimas Fernando Herrarte," 27, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported. Arcos-Vasquez is a citizen of Guatemala last residing in Norwalk.
