News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: MOAB, Utah - Travel and transportation are integral to the use and enjoyment of public lands. In an effort to ensure a robust transportation network supporting all forms of travel, the Bureau of Land Management Moab Field Office is verifying route inventories in the Canyon Rims area south of Moab in advance of travel management planning. The BLM is seeking public feedback on the existing transportation inventory in this area to help inform future planning efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Richard Lee Graham, 55, of Gardendale, Alabama, was found guilty on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 for passing a fictitious instrument and obstructing the administration of the Internal Revenue laws, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., of the Middle District of Alabama, and Thomas J. Holloman, Special Agent in Charge with IRS-Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON, TX-Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Perrye K. Turner welcomed today, Sept. 13, 2018, the Assistant Director (AD) of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, Bill Priestap, and leaders of Texas medical, scientific research, and academic institutions. AD Priestap discussed the challenges of protecting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Demitri Kardeem Scott, 25, of Anchorage, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve 78 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - United States Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that 16 individuals are facing federal drug conspiracy charges for their involvement in a drug distribution ring. A federal criminal indictment was filed on Aug. 23, 2018, and was unsealed today in federal court.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Statistics for More Than 40 Demographic and Economic Topics Provide Detailed Profiles of Communities Nationwide.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Effective immediately, the burn ban on lands in Skagit and Whatcom counties within North Cascades National Park Service Complex is lifted. This includes all National Park Service lands and campgrounds along State Route 20, the Ross Lake area, west of Rainy Pass, and north of Park Creek Pass and Cascade Pass.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Another local man is headed to federal prison for producing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Houston resident Miguel Alejandro Morales-Garcia pleaded guilty Feb. 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), released the following joint statement to mark the 24th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia returned an indictment today charging an Evansville, Indiana man with one count of conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Defendant previously deported five times. BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Juan Laboy, 44, a Dominican national formerly residing in Lawrence, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Continuing their longstanding work to combat skyrocketing prescription drug prices, U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Susan Collins today demanded answers from Nostrum Pharmaceuticals following a report that the company had more than quadrupled the price of their drug nitrofurantoin last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Year Long Investigation Results in 17 Federally Indicted, 97 Illegal Guns Taken Off Streets.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA) checkpoint Sept. 13.
By State Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a full committee markup on a measure to require the Administration to produce records dealing with the Trump-Putin Helsinki Summit...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - A federal Grand Jury today returned three separate indictments against K’Moi Corraspe, 24, Michael Hendrickson, 27, and Gamba Potter, 33, each for allegedly possessing illegal contraband in prison, United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced. All three men remain in custody at the Bureau of Corrections where they await trial on unrelated local charges.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: It was a drizzly mid-May morning in Kodiak, Alaska, and the plan was to hop a float plane to the Native Village of Ouzinkie on neighboring Spruce Island. But in the Last Frontier state, the best-laid plans often give way to workarounds. Such is the case when low-hanging clouds settle over Kodiak’s towering peaks, thwarting air flight to Ouzinkie.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today advanced six bipartisan bills, five of which aim to improve patient care and reduce health care fraud, while one will modernize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee Markup of Six Bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Ikie Ealy Concealed His Wife’s Income to Continue Qualifying for Benefits.
