News from April 2019
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The National Park Service (NPS) has approved a plan to stabilize a historic stone wall and raise parts of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) towpath, move it farther from the Potomac River and resurface it. The improvements will be made between McMahon’s Mill (milepost 88.1) and Lock 42 (milepost 89.0) in Washington County, Md.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The number of people charged with federal crimes in the Northern District of Alabama in 2018 and the percentage of those defendants sentenced to prison was the highest since 2007, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Abraham Bautista-Rodriguez, 19, and Salvador Bautista-Rodriguez, 19, both citizens of Mexico, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to unlawful reentry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, and Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man who conspired with the leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy that imported hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl and cocaine from the Dominican Republic and distributed them in Rhode Island and Massachusetts has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison, announced...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Fire managers at Saguaro National Park plan to conduct a prescribed burn on Mica Mountain in the Saguaro Wilderness of the Rincon Mountain District (Saguaro East) this spring when conditions are favorable. The prescribed burn is currently planned for late April or early May.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: A California tobacco company executive on Friday was arrested after being charged with a conspiracy to evade the payment of millions of dollars in excise taxes on imported cigars.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Khareem Sampson, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with the Grist Mill Market in East Haddam, Connecticut, to resolve allegations that the store was not operating in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on April 12, 2019, Jose L. Gonzalez, 28, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 14 years, (168 months), in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture. Following the prison term, Gonzalez will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - After a five-day trial, a federal jury in Madison, Wisconsin, found Erin F. Graham, Jr., 37, of Madison, guilty on Friday, April 12, of seven counts of sex trafficking. The verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - Working with Montana’s Outdoor Legacy Foundation and using funding provided by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Conversation Trust, the Bureau of Land Management’s Western Montana District accepted a donation of about 250 acres of land near Toston Dam in Broadwater County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm today sentenced Charles Bertsch, age 60, of Laurel, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Grimm also ordered that, upon his release from prison, Bertsch must register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Albuquerque Man Faces Federal Charge of Harboring a Fugitive (Jeyden Barnhill).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison today for sex trafficking, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - At 9:09 AM on Monday, April 15th, the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) received a 406 MHz emergency locator transmitter signal from a National Park Service (NPS) aircraft. The airplane, identified as a Cessna 185, had crashed approximately 4 miles northeast of Serpentine Hot Springs, within Bering Land Bridge National Preserve on the Seward Peninsula.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry today announced that the Department of Energy will award 86 grants totaling $95 million to 74 small businesses in 21 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Mick Mulvaney The Honorable Kevin K. McAleenan
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: Washington - Completion of the new security screening building for the Washington Monument has been delayed for mitigation of possibly contaminated soil in the construction area. The modernization of the monument’s elevator is substantially complete, with just final testing and certification of the safety systems remaining.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Oversight Committee Republicans raised concerns about Chairman Elijah Cummings’s (D-MD) partisan attack on states’ rights. These concerns come in response to investigations initiated by Chairman Cummings and Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 96 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
