News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking feedback through public meetings and comments on the proposed Willow Master Development Plan and Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road Draft Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), both of which the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) made available for public review and comment Aug. 23, 2019, and published in the Federal Register today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sex trafficking involving a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: TOOELE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Salt Lake Field Office will soon begin gather operations to remove excess wild horses from the perimeter and outside of the Onaqui Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA), in Tooele and Juab Counties. The gather will begin on Sept. 11 and is expected to last approximately nine days.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, AK 3:00PM AKDT - Managers of the 50 marine sites on the United Nation’s World Heritage List will converge on Southeast Alaska September 5 - 8, 2019, for a symposium hosted by the National Park Service in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Participants will explore challenges, solutions...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Merrideth Christina McMillian, 46, of Vancleave, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 33 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for credit union theft, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Judge Ozerden further ordered that $376,152.60 in restitution be paid to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: MACON - A Florida resident was sentenced to 46 months in prison for attempting to distribute 2,593 grams of ice methamphetamine, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Carlos Mendez, 45, of Orlando, Florida, previously pleaded guilty to one count...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) health advisory regarding the use of e-cigarettes...
By State Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement in advance of tomorrow’s 5th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s decision to deny true universal suffrage to Hong Kong:
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: Fire danger has increased rapidly recently with dry, windy conditions and with the curing of a robust grass crop. As the Labor Day holiday weekend approaches, along with high visitation and high fire danger, park visitors are reminded that there are always fire restrictions in place at Rocky Mountain...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted a convicted felon for allegedly illegally possessing more than 50 shotguns, rifles and handguns in his Chicago home.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore C. Chuang today sentenced Nathaniel Michael Worthy, age 47, of Washington, D.C., to 135 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and controlled substance analogues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Merrideth Christina McMillian, 46, of Vancleave, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 33 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for credit union theft, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Judge Ozerden further ordered that $376,152.60 in restitution be paid to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Aug. 26, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Nevada United States Attorney Nicholas Trutanich met this week with fellow members of the Attorney General’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS) in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, in order to discuss public safety and law enforcement issues that impact Native American and Alaska Native communities.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration today announced the selection of a chair and vice chair for the Surface Transportation Security Advisory Committee (STSAC).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A large number of arrests have been made as part of a coordinated effort by federal, state and local law enforcement dubbed as “Operation Coastal Bender," announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Nevada United States Attorney Nicholas Trutanich met this week with fellow members of the Attorney General’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS) in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, in order to discuss public safety and law enforcement issues that impact Native American and Alaska Native communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Reno Sayles, Jr., 29, of Cheektowaga, NY, as well as Kevin Brown, 27, and Marlon Worthy, 32, both of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine and heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a maximum sentence of up to life imprisonment and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Aug. 29, 2019, JONATHAN WEBRE, age 35, a resident of Reserve, Louisiana, was indicted by the Federal Grand Jury in a three count indictment, charging him with distribution of five grams or more of methamphetamine, possession with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore C. Chuang today sentenced Nathaniel Michael Worthy, age 47, of Washington, D.C., to 135 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and controlled substance analogues.
