News from October 2018
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management and Pueblo de Cochiti announced today that Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument has been named a winner in the inaugural TripSavvy Editors’ Choice Awards in the 2018 Beaches and Natural Attractions category.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted a Red Oak, Texas couple who allegedly embezzled $14.5 million from retirement plans they managed, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement following the signing of H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act into law by President Trump...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement following the signing of H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act into law by President Trump...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Saturday is the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 16th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Four Southern California men who allegedly are members of a white supremacy extremist group have been named in a federal criminal complaint that charges them of travelling to political rallies across California, where they violently attacked counter-protesters, journalists and a police officer.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement in response to the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - Robert J. Murphy, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta Division announced that the DEA Columbia is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, during its 16th National...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted in federal court for selling drugs that resulted in a fatal overdose of a man inside a hotel in downtown Cleveland in July.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: The Boquillas Port of Entry within Big Bend National Park, providing access to the town of Boquillas, Coahuila, Mexico, as well as the protected areas of Maderas del Carmen, Ocampo, and Cañon de Santa Elena, will start winter hours of operation beginning Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. The change in hours is to align with daylight hours.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, a bipartisan legislative package to combat the opioid crisis, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: A 64-year-old Grapevine, Texas, man was sentenced today to 12 months in federal prison for a hate crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a Federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned a three-count indictment charging ROBERT FULTON BACON, a/k/a “Face," age 32, of Warrenton, North Carolina, with one count of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and two counts of possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lucas Obi, age 53, of Toronto, Canada, a former Western Union and MoneyGram agent, was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment on Oct. 23, 2018, by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane for defrauding thousands of victims out of approximately $4.4 million via international mass marketing, consumer fraud schemes.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Due to the high level of interest in the opportunity to collect wood rounds in a pre-designated area within Acadia National Park, a lottery system will be used to randomly select names. By Oct. 22, over 90 community members have responded to the National Park Service’s initial...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Julio Ramos, a/k/a “Sleepy," was sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in an October 2002 drive-by shooting, resulting in the death of Aldo Vallejo, a rival gang member.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: KANAB, Utah - As part of its commitment to managing healthy and productive landscapes and providing economic opportunities for the local communities that we serve, the Bureau of Land Management Utah (BLM-UT) seeks public input on the proposed Paria River Habitat Improvement Project. The 30-day public scoping period will begin on Oct. 25, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Norman Vick, 57, Columbus, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Madison to an information charging him with failing to pay over employment and income taxes withheld from his employees’ wages. Vick faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson scheduled sentencing for Jan. 10, 2019, at 1:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a troubling new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today detailing the Trump Administration’s haphazard efforts to reunify families separated at the border due to the so-called “zero tolerance" policy.
