News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Visitors of all ages are invited to celebrate the grand re-opening of both the Sandy Hook Lighthouse and the Fort Hancock Post Museum at the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Federal Inmate Pleads Guilty and Receives Life Sentence for 2000 Carjacking, Kidnapping and Murder in Vermont.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brandon Black, age 34, of Etters, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Sept. 26, 2018, by a federal grand jury for armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an inmate has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a scheme to smuggle heroin into the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Goose Creek Correctional Center (GCCC) for distribution to inmates in April 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Twenty-eight individuals suspected of trafficking methamphetamine from Southern California into Southwest Virginia, Northeast Tennessee, and Georgia have been charged via a federal criminal complaint with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. United...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS- The Las Vegas Field Office announces the temporary closure of certain public lands in the Jean Dry Lake Bed area from October 5 through October 6, 2018. This action is being taken to help ensure public safety during the 2018 Rise Lantern Festival. This temporary closure controls access to...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 82 National Park Service employees from 34 parks and 19 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that three New Haven men have pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to various charges related to their roles in a violent street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PASQUALE F. FURANO, 48, of Greenwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The president of a staffing company today admitted defrauding a commercial finance lending company out of more than $400,000, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - Cape Lookout National Seashore will reopen the Harkers Island Visitor Center and beaches to limited day-use.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford dismissed a negligence lawsuit seeking damages brought by plaintiff Lenray Harris against the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VA) in Buffalo. The plaintiff claimed that she...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with other federal, state and local law enforcement agents arrested 53 individuals Thursday for drug and illegal arms trafficking and money laundering. The arrests...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that JOSE CARLOS ESTRADA-MEZA, age 26, was charged today in a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that an Abbeville man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for illegally possessing a pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: For Racketeering Conspiracy. HAMMOND - Jorge Esqueda, 24, of East Chicago, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon after pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Esqueda was sentenced to 108 months in prison. According to documents in the...
