News from October 2018
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Gateway National Recreation Area has been selected to receive an Open OutDoors for Kids Focus City grant for the 2018-2019 school year from the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. Gateway will work with new partners to expand educational programs for...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central California District will accept nominations through Wednesday, Oct. 31, for 13 positions awaiting appointment on both its citizen-based Central California Resource Advisory Council and the Carrizo Plain National Monument Advisory Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael Portanova, age 27, of West Hazleton, pleaded guilty on Oct. 17, 2018, to receiving child pornography before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Ronald Pineda-Carias, age 41, and a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to illegally re-entering the United States as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: DENVER - During an early raid this morning, over 100 law enforcement officers arrested members of two separate but related drug trafficking organizations, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Janeen Diguiseppi, DEA Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Tim McDermott...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT/ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Shreveport felon and a Lafayette felon pleaded guilty to possessing firearms in two separate cases.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation issued final environmental documents authorizing the 27-year Warren Act contract with Sacramento Suburban Water District. The long-term contract allows for conveyance through Folsom Reservoir in wet years.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: The IMLS Grant application deadline is Nov. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, a federal jury in Portland found Shane Britton, 43, of Pendleton, Oregon, guilty of abusive sexual contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Leominster man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to passport fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that EULALIO TORRES-CADENAS, age 41, of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of conspiring to traffic 500 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Louisiana. TORRES-CADENAS faces a mandatory...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Keith Kruskall, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gilbert Guzman, 42, of Brooklyn, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine, was sentenced to three years probation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 17, 2018, Jerry Bowman, 58, of Johnson City, Tennessee, was arrested for the robbery of the Carter County Bank on Milligan Highway in Johnson City, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was charged in federal court today with robbing three commercial businesses, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, NV - The Bureau of Land Management BLM, Winnemucca District, Black Rock Field Office and their partners hosted the 3rd annual National Public Lands Day event at Soldier Meadows on September 28-30. The 3 day event included completing public lands service projects, 2 days of overnight camping, a Dutch oven cook off.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was charged in federal court today with robbing three commercial businesses, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, and Artie DeLaneuville, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury has found Joseph Deleon (29, Mount Dora) guilty of robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Deleon faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled. He was indicted on July 11, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Efisio Mascia, age 36, and a citizen of Italy residing in Ibiza, Spain, was arrested Tuesday after a high-speed flight from Border Patrol on New York State Route 37 near Malone, New York. The arrested followed a failed smuggling attempt. No one was injured.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
Release: October 18 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has suspended entry of imports of fresh and frozen pork and pork products from Poland while it completes a review of that country’s export protocols. Due to cases of African Swine Fever (ASF), Poland ...
