News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Lake Havasu Field Office will begin a parking lot improvement project to enhance recreational use at Take Off Point Day Use Area later this month, to include repairing, sealing and striping.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Fort Pulaski National Monument invites you to help clear park trails on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, for our National Public Lands Day event. While the park suffered little damage from Hurricane Florence, a lot of work remains after the storms of the past two years. Check-in is at 8 AM and work will last until 11:30. Lunch will be provided for volunteers at noon in the picnic area.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft environmental document for public review on the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians of Big Valley Rancheria project to construct a backup drinking well on tribal property.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Oregon State Police Lieutenant Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Quentin Scott, 30, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Sept. 13, 2018, by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 59 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms. Scott pleaded guilty to this charge on July 3, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - On Sept. 11, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted 11 former FedEx Express employees and two former contractors for the U.S. Postal Service on federal mail theft charges. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Central Islip charging chiropractor Raymond R. Pellegrino with health care fraud. The indictment alleges that Pellegrino billed Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield over $2 million for health care services that were never performed. Pellegrino was arrested today in Texas, and will be arraigned at a later date in the Eastern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Marc Jason Levene (57, Sarasota) has pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of explosives by a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has been set for Dec. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Nico Deshawn Daniels, age 27, of Little Rock, was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924 or Lisa J. Sanniti (619) 546-8811.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Department of Justice today announced a settlement agreement with the owner of four Kentucky theaters, resolving complaints alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA"). The complaints, filed with the Department, asserted that Tenth Frame Cinemas, LLC, in Mt.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Defendant was on pre-trial release from Plymouth County Superior Court for various child exploitation offenses; files allegedly include sexual assaults of girls aged four-to-eight years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: John Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on Sept. 14, 2018, MILTON WESTLEY, also known as “Reese," 20, of New Haven, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to a federal racketeering charge stemming from his role in a New Haven street gang.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - The Going-to-the-Sun Road has reopened to private vehicle travel between Apgar and Logan Pass. It is now possible to drive the entire length of the road.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today encouraged Senate passage of the Opioid Crisis Response Act. The package includes policies from the Helping to End Addiction and Lessen (HEAL) Substance Use Disorders Act of 2018, which Hatch introduced with Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) earlier this year and unanimously passed the Finance Committee in June.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Charges of Conviction Included Racketeering, Drug Trafficking,.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Dominic Caputo, 46, of Clackamas County, Oregon, was indicted today on allegations that, as a civilian program manager for the Oregon National Guard Oregon Sustainment Maintenance Site (OSMS), he submitted false reimbursement requests to the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and misrepresented the operational status of equipment used to maintain a war-ready posture.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jorge Barron, age 21, of Boulder, Colorado, entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A) and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2, punishable by not less than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - RALPH ALLEN LEE SHORTEY, 36, has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for soliciting a minor to engage in a commercial sex act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Domonic L. Harris, 44, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced Sept. 14, 2018, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to nine months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for illegal transactions with an access device. In addition to his prison sentence, Harris will also serve two years on supervised release and pay $3,688.27 in restitution.
