News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former bus driver for the Monessen School District has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: Award recognizes excellence in rangering. Yosemite National Park is pleased to announce that Jack Hoeflich is the 2018 recipient of the National Park Service’s Harry Yount Award for Excellence in the Art of Rangering. Named after the world’s first-known park ranger who patrolled Yellowstone National...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Iramarie Velez, 37, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Akron, Ohio man pled guilty to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl in Huntington last year, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Anton Marcel Jeffries, 25, pled guilty in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Huntington Violent Crime & Drug Task Force and the Huntington Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme will meet with fellow members of the Attorney General’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS) in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, to discuss public safety and law enforcement issues that impact Native American and Alaska Native communities. Attorney Alme is vice chair of the subcommittee.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - September brings changes for park visitors. Service hours begin to shorten, and construction projects expand to take advantage of lower visitation and remaining favorable weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A physician assistant who practiced at a Fountain Valley clinic was arrested today on an 11-count federal grand jury indictment charging him with conspiring to issue prescriptions for the highly addictive opioid painkiller oxycodone, without a medical purpose, to drug dealers in exchange for cash, knowing the drugs would be sold on the street.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: The Glenwood Dunes Trail system at Indiana Dunes National Park, which was closed due to extensive flooding on June 21, and partially opened on June 25, has been fully reopened. The entire length of the 6.4-mile long trail is now available to hikers and equestrian users.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEVEN HUTCHINSON, 29, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ryan D. Merrill, 40, of Augusta, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E. Walker to time served (six days) in jail and three years of supervised release for possessing an unregistered silencer. Merrill pleaded guilty on April 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: The defendant Eric Paulino was arrested today on a complaint charging him with possession of child pornography. Paulino made his initial appearance this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in federal court in Brooklyn, and was released on a $250,000 bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Daniel Easler, 43, of Mapleton, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: Bangladeshi National Pleads Guilty to Bringing Aliens to the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced $5 million in Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program (HRSP) grants to nine projects to support the preservation of historic buildings in rural communities across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his involvement in a series of burglaries and attempted burglaries of Target retail stores, including two in Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy Enix a/k/a Blaze, 60, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant, a Kingsmen Motorcycle Club (KMC) member and Florida/Tennessee Regional President, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme will meet with fellow members of the Attorney General’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS) in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, to discuss public safety and law enforcement issues that impact Native American and Alaska Native communities. Attorney Alme is vice chair of the subcommittee.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM workers at the Idaho National Laboratory Site are completing several improvements to the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) following a 50-day demonstration of the facility.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Despite Colorado’s sanctuary law, deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue to detain and remove unlawfully present criminal aliens as a part of their day-to-day operations to help keep local communities safe. The vast majority of those they arrest are aliens with criminal convictions, and/or criminal charges, and/or aliens with final orders of removal issued by a federal immigration judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - David Lee Wirges, age 39, of Auburn, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin and selling a firearm to a felon, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
