News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Time: 2-3:30 pm: tour will begin promptly at 2:30 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeffrey Campton, 30, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, was sentenced on August 2 by U.S. District Judge William Conley to seven years in federal prison for robbing three banks in Madison in 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will begin a gather of up to 40 wild burros near the Seven Springs Ranch during the week of August 5. These burros have wandered off public land in the Tassi-Gold Butte Herd Management Area (HMA) and are damaging private property and springs on the nearby Seven Springs Ranch. Wild burros removed from the range will be made available for adoption or sale to good homes through the BLM’s Adoption and Sale Program.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register announcing that the department will develop an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to study the impacts of building a Versatile ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: A 20-year old man from Hawaii was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison after having pleaded guilty in March to robbing a gun shop and using the stolen firearms to commit armed robberies, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito will join members of law enforcement, community leaders and residents on Tuesday, August 6th at West Side Park in Newark to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Southern Nevada District concluded an emergency wild horse gather on August 5, 2019. The gather was conducted in the Red Rock Herd Management Area in Clark County, where there is currently not enough water to support the number of horses that were in the area. The gather was conducted using the bait and water trap method; no helicopters were used. The BLM gathered and removed 237 excess wild horses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Two Chicago men who carjacked a sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint in the city’s Goose Island neighborhood have each been sentenced to eleven years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - Ryan Fitzgerald Dalley, 44, of Soda Springs, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to 17 years in federal prison for continuing criminal enterprise and conspiracy to launder money, Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - On Aug. 11, 2019, the National Park Service will continue with measures to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep at Big Bend National Park, which include reducing its population of non-native Aoudads (Barbary Sheep).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) today pushed back against the Trump Administration’s rollback of offshore drilling safety regulations, requesting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the federal government’s readiness to respond to oil spills.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) today pushed back against the Trump Administration’s rollback of offshore drilling safety regulations, requesting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the federal government’s readiness to respond to oil spills.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Robert C. Bone, II Named Special Agent in Charge of the Counterintelligence and Cyber Division of the Los Angeles Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) today pushed back against the Trump Administration’s rollback of offshore drilling safety regulations, requesting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the federal government’s readiness to respond to oil spills.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Defendant sentenced to 46 months of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Rodrigo Caro-Gonzalez, 35, a noted drug trafficker residing in Eagle Point, Oregon, was sentenced on Aug.1, 2019, to 120 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Offers Up to $1,000 Reward After Man Robs Santa Fe Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Patrick Hayden, 32, of Charleston, Arkansas, pled guilty to sending threatening letters to U.S. District Court Judges and other federal personnel through the mail, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 876(c). D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Justin Mark Mullenix, age 35, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced on Aug. 2, 2019, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Chief United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Mullenix to a 17 years in prison, to be followed by a five-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service has installed a new wayside exhibit outside the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center on the history of segregation at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The exhibit highlights a former garage that in the 1930s and 1940s housed segregated restrooms for African American visitors. One of those restrooms is still in use and retains original tile and fixtures. The larger building is today the park’s gift shop and bookstore.
