News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials continue preparations for Hurricane Florence and have announced road and facility closures beginning Saturday, September 15. Predictions from the National Weather Service indicate Florence will be a tropical depression rated-storm when she reaches the Smokies...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VINCENT BRUNO pled guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Paul E. Davison to attempting to kill, and conspiring to kill, a Bronx man in 2012. In May 2017, BRUNO and 18 other members and associates...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas K. Lagan, age 60, of Cooperstown, New York, and formerly of Slingerlands, New York, was arraigned today on money laundering and tax charges relating to the theft of approximately $11.8 million from estates for which he served as a fiduciary.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park will host several special events to commemorate the 25th National Public Lands Day on Sept. 22, 2018. Entrance fees to the park will be waived on this special day.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOEL MICHAEL BANE, age 39, of New Jersey, pleaded guilty yesterday to a one-count bill of information for interference with flight crew.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tuscarora Field Office announces a 45-day comment period on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Halliburton Energy Services’ proposed Rossi Mine Expansion Project. Written comments on the Draft EIS are due to the BLM Tuscarora Field Office by close of business November 5, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, CA -- The National Park Service will host a free classic car show and drive-in movie featuring ‘80s comedy “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure." The event, which will be held at historic Paramount Ranch, will take place on Saturday, September 29 from 4:00 to 9 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Federal prosecutors in Salt Lake City have unsealed charges alleging three individuals operating a drug trafficking organization traveled from Phoenix to Salt Lake City in August and kidnapped a 17-year-old boy at gunpoint from his mother’s Utah business while trying to collect a heroin-related drug debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Louisiana has indicted DARRYL HENRY, age 27, for three robberies with a firearm on Aug. 24, 2018. If convicted, HENRY faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VINCENT BRUNO pled guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Paul E. Davison to attempting to kill, and conspiring to kill, a Bronx man in 2012. In May 2017, BRUNO and 18 other members and associates...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - The Drug Enforcement Administration joined the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, San Diego Police Department, San Diego County Health and Human Services and the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office today to warn the public about a spate of deaths in beach communities connected...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas K. Lagan, age 60, of Cooperstown, New York, and formerly of Slingerlands, New York, was arraigned today on money laundering and tax charges relating to the theft of approximately $11.8 million from estates for which he served as a fiduciary.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for the armed kidnapping of a Quincy man and two children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Jurden Rogers (29, Sanford) guilty of bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the bank robbery. Rogers faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against a New York man who was a high-level promoter of a fraudulent company that solicited more than $200 million for a company that purported to market web-based children’s educational courses, but in reality was nothing more than a pyramid scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Steamtown National Historic Site will soon kick off its ever-popular fall foliage rail excursion season with a series of trains running into the heart of the Pocono Mountains to take advantage of those fabulous views. Tickets go on sale beginning Wednesday, September 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Shawn Whitaker, 32, of Troy, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 240 months in prison for creating child pornography of a five-year-old and a 15-year-old.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Join us outside and at your favorite local park for the 25th annual National Public Lands Day on September 22. This year’s theme is restoration and resilience and there are two opportunities in Los Angeles to participate in a volunteer activity - Paramount Ranch and Audubon Center at Debs Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York real estate broker and a Bergen County, New Jersey, homeowner were sentenced today for their respective roles in a $3.5 million scheme to use false information and simultaneous loan applications at multiple banks to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit, a practice known as “shotgunning," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - A federal Grand Jury today returned separate indictments against Ezequiel Rivera Gomez aka Francisco Mejia, 44, and Luis Miguel Recio Fernandez, 29, both Dominican Republic nationals, alleging that they illegally reentered the United States after having been previously deported, United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced. Both men remain in federal custody pending their individual trials.
